What a past few days...
First of all I have had a horrible stomach ache. Its so strange...I was in India for a month and never got sick...and then after eating a vegan pita pocket with an organic salad in NYC...boom! I got food poisoning or something painful and awful.
Doing my yoga was not easy.
So I simply did alot of breathing...deep breathing...a lot of child pose...for a long period of time.
And what did seem to help was leg raises and the Single and Double Wind Relieving poses: Vatayanasana.
This pose gently massages the digestive system and gives relief from excess gas (hence the name of the pose) , stomach and intestines.
basically you lie on your back
inhale and exhale on knee to your chest
pull in the knee to your chest with your hands wrapped around the knee
breath in and out
switch legs
do this four or five times with at least 2 or 4 big breathes while holding the knee to the chest.
Then you can bring both knees to the chest and inhale and exhale for a while.
What a relief!
To find more great releaving yoga poses...check out the book: The Sivananda Companion to Yoga
Om Shanti
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