Halasana Benefits, Steps & How To Perform Halasana?

Halasana is also known as plough pose. According to the Sanskrit language, ‘hala’ means ‘plough.’ The reason that Halasana (PLOUGH POSE) is known with this name because when you perform this asana your body shape looks like a plough which is agricultural equipment.  Halasana (Plow Pose) gives you several health benefits.

This asana is performed during the culmination of your yoga session because this asana has some difficulty level from intermediate to advance.

If a person practices this asana every day this will help his/her body to elevates pratyahara which mean withdrawal of senses. And after this, you can practice Halasana, you can perform Shavasana and pranayama. 

Halasana Steps you Must Follow While Performing it:

Step 1: First, you need to lie on the floor straight like a supine position. Then you need to keep your palms facing downwards and keep your arms alongside the body. 

Step 2: Then bend your knees and bring your knees close to your forehead, while doing this you need to place your hands under your hips.

Step 3: Keep your legs completely extended and also keep your torso perpendicular to the floor, remember to do this while you are slowly straightening your knees (exhale while performing this) to attain the proper posture.  

Step 4: After this, bring your chin away from your sternum and while opening your shoulders you need to soften your throat. While performing this you need to create a lift with the help of your arms pressing into the ground. 

Step 5: To achieve the maximum “Halasana benefits”, you need to go further, move the legs as further from the head as possible. While you are performing this, you will achieve a chin lock which will put pressure on the thyroid glands. 

Step 6: Place your fingers behind your back and then slowly and gently squeeze the shoulder blades together. You can also grab your toes and also slide your arms over your head. 

Step 7: You need to maintain this position and your breathing (count till 4 to 10) based on your comfort level. 

Halasana Benefits you Must Know For Motivation:

• When you perform Halasana, you fold your back, abdominal muscles and leg as well and if you perform this Halasana every day, this will help you strengthen your back muscles and spinal cord. 

• Halasana benefits the working of your spinal because when you perform this asana this creates a pressure on the nerves in the neck area which are generally sympathetic, hence this helps to enhance the operation of the sympathetic nervous system. 

• This asana improves the functioning of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal and parathyroid glands. How this is helpful? This asana improves the overall function of the endocrine system. 

Other Benefits of Halasana (PLOUGH POSE) are:

1. Improve your blood circulation. 
2. This asana is also good for dyspepsia. 
3. This asana helps to warm up, lightens and activates the physiological system.
4. This asana is useful for bronchitis and asthma. 
5. This asana helps to stretch and relax your muscles, and ligaments of your calves and thighs.  
6. This asana improves flexibility and relaxation during a leg cramp. 
7. This asana helps to make your spinal cord strong and flexible. 
8. This asana improves problems related to your digestive system like constipation. 
9. This asana helps to stabilize or normalize your blood glucose level.
10. Halasana help women to deal with menopause problem.
11. Halasana helps to stimulate your reproductive organs. 
12. Halasana Benefits to strengthen your immune system. 
13. This asana also helps to get relief from infertility, sinusitis, back pain and headache. 

You can place a folded blanket under your shoulders while performing halasana for a modification.

Few variations that you can make while performing halasana are: 

– You can change some of your arm’s position like you can place your palms behind your back and you can also squeeze your shoulder blades and interlace fingers behind your back while performing this asana. 

– You can also hold on to the toes and place your arms over your head. 

Few contradictions that you can make while performing halasana are:

– Perform this asana after consulting with your doctor in case of menstruation, asthma, neck injury, high blood pressure, pregnancy and diarrhoea. You can perform this asana with the help of support, like a chair.