Gomukhasana
Gomukhasana is a beautiful pose to keep us open to celebrate life. For many of us, we find ourselves sitting slouched over a desk, writing or using a computer, and driving hunched over the steering wheel in bucket seats.
For the Gomukhasana arm position, the classical way to enter the pose is by raising your top arm first, and then you can use your opposite arm to roll your upper arm inward. Turn your upper arm triceps inward as in Urdhva Hastasana.
Cow Face Pose - Gomukhasana
By Ann Pizer, About.com
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Gomukhasana (Sanskrit: à¤-ोमà¥à¤-ासन; IAST: GomukhÄsana) or Cow Face Pose[1] is an asana.
Contents
1 Etymology
2 Anatomical Focus
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links ...
Gomukhasana - (Cow Face Posture)
Go = cow, Mukha = face
Benefits: Opens up the hips, the chest, the shoulders and the chest.
Gomukhasana
Benefits: Stretches shoulders, chest, armpits, hips, ankles
Helps: Poor posture, tight shoulders ...
Gomukhasana,
Loosens shoulders and releases neck tension. With feet on floor and sitting bones pressing into a chair, lift sternum to lengthen your spine. Bring right arm overhead and bend elbow to move hand down back.
Gomukhasana
(Cow Face Pose), variation
From sitting, stack your right knee on top of your left.
Your feet should be in about the same place on either side. Keep your feet active. Inhale to lift and lengthen you spine.
GOMUKHASANA
In this Asana the body assumes the figure of the face of a cow (Gomukh). That is why Maharshis thought it fit to name this Asana Gomukhasana.
Work with warm-ups such as Cobbler (Baddhakonasana) and leg stretches (either at the wall or supine) to open the hips; and Eagle (Garudasana) and Cow Face (Gomukhasana) arms to open the chest and shoulders.
Gomukhasana arms (cow-face)
10. Supta Virasana (reclined hero)
11. Paryankasana (couch/bed) can also use a block under the chest for a supported chest opener
12. Bhekasana (frog, not the Ana Forrest version)
13. Matsyasana (fish)
14.
you are really fortunate to have adequate space available - do a few poses to feel energized and refreshed for the rest of the afternoon. If you spend your day hunched over a computer, shoulder stretches (such as Eagle/Garudasana or Cow/Gomukhasana ...
Similarly adduction of the hips that is effected by such asanas such as gomukhasana, matsyendrasana, marichiasana, ...
 See also: Asana, Yoga, Stretch, Posture, Body
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