Surya Namakaar
The martial arts training, especially the strength training needs some sort of balancing work and the yogic stretching is the best complementary training. However spending hours doing one of the streams of yoga, in addition to your martial arts will leave you with hardly enough time to pursue your personal life. Thus the ancient wise men of Bharatha conceived the wonderful set of exercises - the world famous Surya Namaskaar.
Sun Salutation as it is known around the English speaking world, is a complete system by itself. As kathinayogis we used, and still use Surya Namaskaar as a warm up prior to Kathinayoga training and on certain days as the only exercise.
Surya Namaskaar develops the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of a human being. The physical form devolpes the body while the pranayama and the manthras develop the other two respectively.
For those who are on the spiritual side, chanting the manthras and doing the prescribed 108 repetitions is the ultimate. And of course they can chant the Aditya Hrudayam every day.Here a link:
http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_pdf/adityahriday.pdf
For others 24 to 36 repetitions will do the job. The minimum is the basic 12.
There are 9 - yes nine different versions of Surya Namaskaar or Sun Salutation that we do as part of Kathinayoga training. However, to reap the benefits the basic and the most authentic version is more than sufficient. here is a link for quick guidance:
http://www.hssus.org/sny/surya-namaskar-video-documentary/about/
Do it everyday (if possible) and reap the benefits.
The other more advanced and strength/kathinayoga specific versions are available only to the dedicated students of Kathinayoga. Apologies :-))
Have a nice training.
The martial arts training, especially the strength training needs some sort of balancing work and the yogic stretching is the best complementary training. However spending hours doing one of the streams of yoga, in addition to your martial arts will leave you with hardly enough time to pursue your personal life. Thus the ancient wise men of Bharatha conceived the wonderful set of exercises - the world famous Surya Namaskaar.
Sun Salutation as it is known around the English speaking world, is a complete system by itself. As kathinayogis we used, and still use Surya Namaskaar as a warm up prior to Kathinayoga training and on certain days as the only exercise.
Surya Namaskaar develops the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of a human being. The physical form devolpes the body while the pranayama and the manthras develop the other two respectively.
For those who are on the spiritual side, chanting the manthras and doing the prescribed 108 repetitions is the ultimate. And of course they can chant the Aditya Hrudayam every day.Here a link:
http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_pdf/adityahriday.pdf
For others 24 to 36 repetitions will do the job. The minimum is the basic 12.
There are 9 - yes nine different versions of Surya Namaskaar or Sun Salutation that we do as part of Kathinayoga training. However, to reap the benefits the basic and the most authentic version is more than sufficient. here is a link for quick guidance:
http://www.hssus.org/sny/surya-namaskar-video-documentary/about/
Do it everyday (if possible) and reap the benefits.
The other more advanced and strength/kathinayoga specific versions are available only to the dedicated students of Kathinayoga. Apologies :-))
Have a nice training.
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