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How Does It Help Us?

• The Dhanurasana or shooting bow pose is known for many body benefits, one of them being strengthening of abdominal muscles. Usually when you are sculpting yourself into a bow, pressure is imposed on the abdominal area. Your body combating this pressure helps you keep your abdomen strong. This is how you can help digestive or intestinal problems just by having a strong abdomen.
• This is a good exercise for women suffering from menstrual problems where the abdomen muscle housing the ovary too gets exercised in the bargain. This stretches out the ovary walls making it flexible. However, do not perform this while going through your menstrual cycle.

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• While you cave your body into a shooting bow pose, your marrow and back muscles are being stretched and twisted thereby opening up the knots within the muscles. This way you can ensure a no back pain policy in your body. The stretches and the twists work out well by making the back muscles flexible.
• Lower back flexibility is yet another boon that we can obtain from this asana where the thigh and calf muscles are again put to a test of flexibility.
• If I say this yoga is directly related to lessening your depression over time, you would question the statement. However, we have a proven answer for that as well. The ancient Chinese believed in free flow of qui (chi) which is energy through the body which is directly related to your mental presence. With this asana the knots and obstacles of your body are evaded making sure your qui flows without any hindrance.

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