Yoga the wheel is rather new accessory for trainings and performance of asanas which becomes more popular among professionals and beginners recently. About what functions it performs as it is correct to work with such assistant and also about details to which it is worth paying attention when choosing the yogi of a hoop for himself, we will tell in this article.
Use reasons
The hoop lifted to the yoga-expert to new level. There is a mass of the reasons for which yogis of the whole world choose the yogi a hoop as an additional the occupations accessory:
- It it becomes frequent an additional support when performing difficult asanas.
- Use as a weighting compound when there is not enough own body weight any more; for performance of especially effective supports.
- Such hoop brings a beautiful variety a habitual type of classical exercises.
- Especially effectively the accessory looks at performance of asanas by two and more partners.
- The wheel very much is pleasant to children: they with pleasure get into gear when at a training it is possible to use such interesting and beautiful adaptation.
- If you participate in the yogi challengea (exercises for two), such hoop will be an interesting highlight in your pictures. Followers will appreciate them.
- From the practical point of view this adaptation perfectly stretches back muscles, helps to carry out deeper deflections, improves flexibility of a backbone and fabrics.
- Carrying out a rack on a wheel, you learn to feel easily the body and to find balance between various categories.
Whether you know? The yoga is not only an opportunity to strengthen the organism and to develop physical force, but also a way of meditation. Mentally going to prostration, yogas open the chakras and through them send positive thoughts and signals to the Universe. The concept chakra in Sanskrit means wheel.
As it is correct to choose
There are two types of material of which make wheels for occupations yoga — a tree and plastic.
Plastic hoops favourably differ on the price policy from wooden colleagues. They the most various coloring, and design too different. Wheels from plastic have the rubberized covering so will be reliably steady when performing various racks and balances.
Fans of products from eco-friendly materials often prefer wooden hoops which also differ from each other in shades and interesting design. All of them are ideally polished, the pith covering so it is possible not to worry is applied on outer side: such wheel will not slide and to wound.
Important! Try to get wheels for occupations yoga only in the certified shops and on the official websites. Then it is possible to be sure of reliability and quality of purchase.
Both options of the yogi of wheels pass careful test for durability. They with guarantee will become a reliable support for any person up to 150 kg. Diameter of a circle and width of a surface — often especially personal choice of the buyer. It should be taken into account growth and weight and also the size of palms that use of an accessory was the most comfortable for you. The hoop with a diameter of 32 cm is considered a universal wheel of the yogi.
Ways of use
Now, having convinced of need of such acquisition and having decided on the choice of model, it is possible to pass directly to use of the yogi of a wheel.
Handstand
The name of exercise speaks for itself: that to execute it, it is necessary to rise in a rack, leaning on hands. The yoga a wheel can be used when performing various asanas. For example:
- To rise on elbows (the body is perpendicular to a floor). In palms to clamp a wheel in vertical position so that the head it was possible to lean on it. Legs equal or put in some interesting situation.
- Wheel on a floor. To take both hands for two of its opposite sides and to leave in a beautiful handstand (the wheel will serve as a support).
- To rise upside down, leaning on vertically standing wheel. Here skills of possession of the body and faultless ability to balance headfirst are necessary therefore such exercise is more preferable to skilled yogis.
Whether you know? Production of wheels for yoga began relatively recently — in 2014. Once their inventor, walking on the Chinese quarter of the town, noticed a certain round subject which he also decided to use as an additional support for the pupils when carrying out the yogi of trainings. In short terms this attribute became such popular that now it is bought massively by yogis of the whole world, and practice with their use began to be called hup-yoga.
Extension of a back
For performance of this trick it is necessary to lay down a back on vertically standing wheel. Try to curve as much as possible a back that contours of your body completely coincided with a hoop surface. The head has to be thrown back (kind of continuing the line of a circle described by your trunk). Hands lie on a floor exactly or are placed in the parties (it is possible to adopt any beautiful provision). To be recorded in this situation or to be shaken smoothly on a wheel.
Important! Do not forget that before performance of difficult exercises it is worth being convinced of the working capacity. It is not necessary to experiment with a hoop if you feel bad, there are chronic diseases, or you are pregnant. It is better to consult at first with the doctor.
Extension of outer side of a hip
Make attack the right leg forward. The trunk is leveled and is perpendicular to a floor. The right leg strongly costs on a floor all foot and is bent in a knee, forming a corner 90 °. The left leg direct, is set aside back and rests fingers against a floor. Ask somebody to trip up vertically under this, to the area of a knee, a wheel. Thus, the left leg leans not on a floor now, and on the yogi a hoop. Do not forget that the right knee looks strictly directly. You have to feel how muscles of outer side of the left hip stretch.
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Nataradzhasana
Nataradzhasana is a beautiful rack which is carried out on one leg. Another is kept by hands, zakinuty for the head, behind the back so that the ideal circle was formed (from a trunk, the raised leg and the thrown-back hands). This quite difficult exercise which demands from the yogi of well developed flexibility and ability to hold balance on one leg. To simplify a little an asana, use the yogi a wheel. It needs to be clamped in the thrown-back hands, and lifted behind-legged to catch free edge of a hoop. So, diameter of the circle formed by your body considerably increases. Respectively, and load of all muscles decreases.
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Hanumansana
Hanumansana means twine. One leg leans not on a floor, and on vertically standing circle. Most often an active leg is that which is removed forward, however as an experiment it is possible to try both options. Being kneeling, put the right leg on a hoop, and left, direct, take away back. Resting palms against a floor, try to lower a basin as low as possible. When performing this asana, muscles of legs stretch.
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Kapotasana
To execute a kapotasana from the yogi around, it is necessary to kneel. Legs at shoulder length, they are located in parallel each other. Between feet vertically place an accessory on which lean a back. Cave in back, having thrown for the hand head. Grasp heels. Here the yoga a hoop serves as a support for a back in classical option of a kapotasana. Having understood nuances on use of a wheel for yoga, it is possible to be convinced that this adaptation is useful for yogis with the different level of experience. Except secure and a support, it also carries out a decorative role, decorating and bringing a variety a habitual type of classical exercises of the yogi. Be not afraid to experiment, using a yoga-wheel as the assistant, and you will see that trainings became much more interesting and more spectacular.