This entry was published on February 12, 2025 by Charlotte Bell.
SUPTA BADDHAKONASANA (Linked Angle Pose) is most often practiced as a restorative pose. In the ultimate restorative version, we use all the right things: yoga blocks, a standard yoga box and yoga or two coverage. But we can also practice the Baddhakonasana Susta in a more simplified way. A yoga carpet and a few yoga blocks may be sufficient for you to benefit from an easy respite in the installation.
As a very folding person, I historically resisted using support under my thighs in Porta Baddhakonasana. The blocks under the thighs were for more rigid people, I thought. But recently, I noticed that my sacroiliac joints (if) felt painful after practicing it. By thinking of what could be the cause, I realized that it could be the extreme angle of my thighs.
My thighs easily fall to the ground in the installation. As a result, I can feel that my glutes really compress my joint. If I stay more than a minute – and I always want to stay more than a minute – my articulation if suffering. Placing a block of yoga under each thigh still gives the many advantages of the installation, but without the disadvantages. I started to suggest that all my students – especially the folding – support their legs in the installation.
Baddhakonasana sigh advantages
The Baddhakonasana Susta is one of the small yoga poses that are suitable for practice after eating. By widening the abdomen, it facilitates energy flow and food material in the lower quadrants of the abdomen, where small and large intestines live. According to my experience, the space that this pose creates helps to stimulate movement to help the rental process.
The Baddhakonasana Susta relieves the contractual or heavy sensation that we often feel after overeating and can relieve menstrual cramps. Because this installation is very relaxing, it helps us to move in the rest and the most digesting (parasympathetic) side of our autonomous nervous system, which stimulates digestion and helps relieve stress.
How to practice the related angle installation with yoga blocks
- Gather your accessories: yoga carpet, two yoga blocks and yoga coverage (optional). I like to place a folded blanket under my head and my neck for a little additional support and comfort.
- Sit in Dandasana (the staff poses) on your carpet. Place the soles with your feet together and fold your knees on the sides. Place a block under each thigh. Make sure the blocks are far enough under your thighs to support them.
- Place your hands behind you and look back. Then fold your elbows to rest on your forearms with your fingers pointing to your glutes.
- Now push your fingers into your glutes to encourage your coccyx to point to your heels.
- Lie on the floor, placing a folded blanket under your head and your neck if you wish.
- Relax here and breathe for 2 to 10 minutes.
- To leave the pose, place your hands under your thighs. Use your hands to support your legs when you move them to your chest. Then place your feet on the ground, hips away, with your standing knees, in a constructive rest position. Relax here as long as you want.
About Charlotte Bell
Charlotte Bell discovered yoga in 1982 and started teaching in 1986. Charlotte is the author of Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life: A Guide for Everyding Practice and Yoga for Meditators, both published by Rodmell Press. His third book is entitled Hip-Healthy Asana: The Yoga Pratitioner’s Guide to Protect of the Hips and Avoid Si Joint Pain (Shambhala Publications). She writes a monthly chronicle for Catalyst Magazine and is online Yoga U publisher. Charlotte is a founding member of the board of directors of Greentree Yoga, a non -profit organization that brings yoga to poorly served populations. Musician for life, Charlotte plays an oboe and an English horn in the Salt Lake Symphony and the Sextuant Folk Red rock Rondo, whose DVD won two Emmy Awards.