Below mentioned are several positions/aasanas for persons with different profiles and conditions:

YOGA asanas for STUDENTS:

• Padahastasan (Foot Hand Pose): This asana makes shoulders strong, waist slim and chest broad. It increases height and reduces weight.
• Trikonasan (Triangular Pose): This reduces the fat deposits around the hips and makes body well proportioned. Relieves pain in ribs and back. Helps remove skin eruptions and boils. Helps increase height.
• Sarvangasan (Shoulder stand): It improves circulation of blood. It strengthens the lungs and the heart and benefits the thyroid. Therefore, it relieves obesity. Strengthens the hair roots and prevents the falling of hair. In women abnormal mobility of the uterus and pelvic pains due to it can be treated. Makes the spine resilient which in turn bestows health, beauty and rejuvenation of the body. Removes bad odours from the body.
• Matsyasan (Fish Pose): Effective for ailments of throat, like tonsils disease.
  Useful for diabetic patient. Cures aching knees and back. Removes constipation, relieves asthma and other respiratory disorders. Useful for maladies of the uterus and also regularises the menstrual flow. Dryness of skin and coarseness of features is removed.
• Halasna (Plough Pose): Useful in hernia, diabetes, piles and pain in the abdomen. Makes spine and legs flexible.
• Chakrasana (Arch Pose): Gives flexibility to the spinal cord. Premature stiffening of the spinal cord induces onset of old age. This asan delays senescence. It regulates the blood circulation and also relieves the pain of feet, ankles, back and shoulders.
• Bhujangasna (Cobra Pose): Relieves constipation, indigestion and flatulence. Cleans the whole gut from the mouth to intestines and rectum. Makes the waist slender and chest broad. Helps in regulating menstrual disorders, liver, and kidney disorders. Relieves backaches. Reduces fat of abdomen.
• Dhanurasan (Bow Pose): This asan makes body supple and resilient. Improves blood circulation. A panacea for persons with paunches and heavy buttocks. It makes shoulders and the neck strong and waist slime. Body becomes beautiful and radiant. Eyes sparkle and eyesight improves. Strengthens the arms, shoulders, spinal cord, legs, knees and thighs and relieves the disorders of the abdomen.
• Salabhasna (Locust Pose): Makes the waist slender and chest broad. Relieves constipation and stimulates indigestion. Strengthens heart and the lungs. Relives sciatica pain Sublimates many of man's faculties. Navel assumes its normal position.
• Naukasan (Boat Pose): Relieves constipation, strengthens the digestive system. Abdominal flabbiness can be reduced. Useful for lung diseases. Useful for strengthening of shoulders, neck, back and legs.
• Vajrasan (Vajra nerve Or Adamantine Pose): With this asan our body becomes strong and firm, especially the toes, knees, thighs and legs. Relieves the pain of the calves and knees. Good for those who are prone to excessive sleep. Has proved useful for students who keep late hours at night. Helps in speedy digestion. (Only asan which can be practised immediately after meals).
• Gomukhasan (Cow's face and jaw Pose): Strengthens feet, waist, and knees. Useful for patients of asthma, tuberculosis of lungs and other respiratory disorders. It is possible to inhale markedly greater amounts of oxygen than is ordinarily needed.
• Paschim Uttaanasan (Head knee forward bend): Improves blood circulation. Skin diseases are cured. Waist becomes supple. Body odours are removed and a pleasant aroma is generated. Reduces the adipose tissue of the abdomen. Strengthens the calves, relieves sciatica nerves, back, the lumbar region and the nerves of the head and relieves the disorders of the abdomen. Induces keen appetite for food. A variety of worms infesting the gut get killed and eradicated. Irritable persons are advised to do this asan.
• Shavasana (dead body or corpse pose): Nerves and veins connected to lower spine become supple as a result helps in backaches and sciatica. Benefits liver and pancreas. Strengths heart and lungs. Helps in correcting menstrual cycle and diseases of the womb.

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YOGA asanas for SPORTS PERSONS:

• Padahastasan (Foot Hand Pose): This asan makes shoulders strong, waist slim and chest broad. It also increases height and reduces weight.
• Trikonasan (Triangular Pose): This reduces the fat deposits around the hips and makes body well proportioned. Relieves pain in ribs and back. Helps remove skin eruptions and boils. Helps increase height.
• Chakrasana (Arch Pose): Gives flexibility to the spinal cord. Premature stiffening of the spinal cord induces onset of old age. This asan delays senescence. It regulates the blood circulation and also relieves the pain of feet, ankles, back and shoulders.
• Sarvangasan (Shoulder stand): It improves circulation of blood. It strengthens the lungs and the heart and benefits the thyroid. Therefore, it relieves obesity. Strengthens the hair roots and prevents the falling of hair. In women abnormal mobility of the uterus and pelvic pains due to it can be treated. Makes the spine resilient which in turn bestows health, beauty and rejuvenation of the body. Removes bad odours from the body.
• Matsyasan (Fish Pose): Effective for ailments of throat, like tonsils disease.
  Useful for diabetic patient. Cures aching knees and back. Removes constipation, relieves asthma and other respiratory disorders. Useful for maladies of the uterus and also regularises the menstrual flow. Dryness of skin and coarseness of features is removed.
• Halasna (Plough Pose): Useful in hernia, diabetes, piles and pain in the abdomen. Makes spine and legs flexible.
• Kandipidasan (Root Squeezing Pose): It cures disorders of spleen and liver. It also cures abdominal disorders. Feet thighs and knees get strengthened.
• Bhujangasna (Cobra Pose): Relieves constipation, indigestion and flatulence. Cleans the whole gut from the mouth to intestines and rectum. Makes the waist slender and chest broad. Helps in regulating menstrual disorders, liver, and kidney disorders. Relieves backaches. Reduces fat of abdomen.
• Dhanurasan (Bow Pose): This asan makes body supple and resilient. Improves blood circulation. A panacea for persons with paunches and heavy buttocks. It makes shoulders and the neck strong and waist slime. Body becomes beautiful and radiant. Eyes sparkle and eyesight improves. Strengthens the arms, shoulders, spinal cord, legs, knees and thighs and relieves the disorders of the abdomen.
• Salabhasna (Locust Pose): Makes the waist slender and chest broad. Relieves constipation and stimulates indigestion. Strengthens heart and the lungs. Relives sciatica pain Sublimates many of man's faculties. Navel assumes its normal position.
• Naukasan (Boat Pose): Relieves constipation, strengthens the digestive system. Abdominal flabbiness can be reduced. Useful for lung diseases. Useful for strengthening of shoulders, neck, back and legs.
• Mayurasan (Peacock Pose): Removes all maladies of abdomen by removing the excessive and unwholesome quantities of food. Effective against chronic enlargements and other disorders of spleen and liver. Extremely useful for defective eyesight (patients of myopia and hypermetropia should practice this asan daily). Hands and arms become strong.
• Vajrasan (Vajra nerve Or Adamantine Pose): With this asan our body becomes strong and firm, especially the toes, knees, thighs and legs. Relieves the pain of the calves and knees. Good for those who are prone to excessive sleep. Has proved useful for students who keep late hours at night. Helps in speedy digestion. (Only asan which can be practised immediately after meals).
• Yogmudra (Yogi symbol): Removes abdominal disorders. Prevents constipation and flatulence. Brings equipoise of the mind.
• Paschim Uttaanasan (Head knee forward bend): Improves blood circulation. Skin diseases are cured. Waist becomes supple. Body odours are removed and a pleasant aroma is generated. Reduces the adipose tissue of the abdomen. Strengthens the calves, relieves sciatica nerves, back, the lumbar region and the nerves of the head and relieves the disorders of the abdomen. Induces keen appetite for food. A variety of worms infesting the gut get killed and eradicated. Irritable persons are advised to do this asan.
• Ustrasan (Camel Pose): Removes constipation and stimulates gastric secretions. Removes ache or colic of the abdomen. Strengthens the thighs, back and toes. Reduces the inflammation of spinal cord. Helps in augmenting the blood supply to the head. Postpones onset of old age and senility. An excellent general prophylactic if practised daily.
• Ardh-Matsyendrasan (Half spinal twist): Benefits all disorders in the body.
  Relieves diabetes and jaundice. Reduces the fat of the abdomen, buttocks and thighs.
• Garbhasan (Foetus Pose): Increases intake of oxygen. Body becomes beautiful and face radiant. Therapeutic value for uterine disorders - regularises menstrual flow, abnormalities in colour of monthly discharge, giddiness during menses. Good for women before childbirth and after childbirth also as it restores vitality and beauty. Exercises practically every part of the body. Wards off senility.
• Vatayanasan (Ventilator Pose): Thighs and lower limbs become strong. Good for dancers as it improves gait and one becomes graceful.
• Shavasana (Dead body or corpse pose): Nerves and veins connected to lower spine become supple as a result helps in backaches and sciatica. Benefits liver and pancreas. Strengths heart and lungs. Helps in correcting menstrual cycle and diseases of the womb.

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YOGA asanas for WORKING PERSONS:

• Sarvangasan (Shoulder stand): It improves circulation of blood. It strengthens the lungs and the heart and benefits the thyroid. Therefore, it relieves obesity. Strengthens the hair roots and prevents the falling of hair. In women abnormal mobility of the uterus and pelvic pains due to it can be treated. Makes the spine resilient which in turn bestows health, beauty and rejuvenation of the body. Removes bad odours from the body.
• Bhujangasna (Cobra Pose): Relieves constipation, indigestion and flatulence. Cleans the whole gut from the mouth to intestines and rectum. Makes the waist slender and chest broad. Helps in regulating menstrual disorders, liver, and kidney disorders. Relieves backaches. Reduces fat of abdomen.
• Naukasan (Boat Pose): Relieves constipation, strengthens the digestive system. Abdominal flabbiness can be reduced. Useful for lung diseases. Useful for strengthening of shoulders, neck, back and legs.
• Ardh-Matsyendrasan (Half spinal twist): Benefits all disorders in the body.
  Relieves diabetes and jaundice. Reduces the fat of the abdomen, buttocks and thighs.
• Shavasana (Dead body or corpse pose): Nerves and veins connected to lower spine become supple as a result helps in backaches and sciatica. Benefits liver and pancreas. Strengths heart and lungs. Helps in correcting menstrual cycle and diseases of the womb.

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