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

YOGA asanas for HOUSEWIVES:

• 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).
• 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.
• 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 PREGNANT WOMEN:

• Pregnancy Sit Up: Keeps the abdominal muscles strong without strain. When these muscles are exercised, help to hold the baby correctly in position.
• Modified Child's Pose: Helps to open pelvic area. Also gives you a comfortable resting pose and a gentle forward bend.
• Modified Forward Bend: Helps to open pelvic area.
• Modified Bhujangasan (Modified Cobra Pose): Avoids abdominal pressure. Strengthens the legs while giving a good backward bend.
• Modified Cat Pose: Keeps the lower back limber and strengthens the legs.
• Wall Butterfly: Opens up the pelvic area, to give an easier labour. Strengthens the legs and lower spine.
• Wall Squatting: Opens up the pelvic area, to give an easier labour. Promotes elasticity of vaginal muscles.
• Pelvic Lift: Strengthens the uterus. It encourages deep breathing and eases lower back strain. It makes you feel healthy, and some mothers find this position comfortable during labour. It stretches the spine.
• Perineal Exercises: Keep the pelvic, anal and vaginal muscles strong and healthy. The muscles, like elastic will stretch fully for the birth and quickly return to normal avoiding postnatal problems like a leaky bladder. Also help to develop awareness and control of the muscles, so that you can actively help in easier birth.
• 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.
• Modified Shavasan (Abdominal Corpse Pose): Helps in relaxation. Must be practiced after doing all asans.

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YOGA asanas for SENIORS:

• Janu-Edee Asan: 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.
• Janu-Bhumiasan: Tones up stomach and waist. Cures indigestion, dyspepsia and constipation. Benefits the kidneys, buttocks, pelvis, womb, bladder etc.
  It reduces fat.
• Janu-Bagal-Asan: Helps in backache, jaundice, and diabetes. Also helps to keep abdomen fat free.
• Nabhichalan (Twisting the navel): Relieves disorders of the abdomen, chest bones, neck, spine and the muscles of the abdomen.
• Janu-Ghumao-Asan: Relieves constipation. Helps keeping appendix in place and at correct size. Shapes body below chest upto knees.
• Tanasan: Improves blood circulation by keeping arteries and veins supple. Cleans blood and clears the lungs.
• Bhujbalasan: Reduces fat and stiffness from arms.
• Uttanpadasan (Foot Stretch Pose): Restores the displaced navel, which is the centre of the body. Beneficially affects the legs, the thighs, hips and other parts of the body. Helps in reducing obesity and regulates menses.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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