Matsyasana(fish Pose)

How To Do The Matsyasana

• Lie flat on your back, making sure your legs are together, and your hands are placed comfortably beside your body.
• Place your palms under your hips such that the palms are facing the ground. Now, bring the elbows closer to each other, placing them close to your waist.
• Cross your legs such that your feet cross each other at your middle, and your thighs and knees are placed flat on the floor.
• Breathe in and lift your chest up such that your head is also lifted, and your crown touches the floor.
• Make sure the weight of your body is on your elbows and not on your head. As your chest is lifted, lightly pressurize your shoulder blades.
• Hold the position only until you are comfortable. Breathe normally.
• Exhale and release the position, lifting your head first, and then dropping your chest to the ground. Untangle your legs and relax.

Benefits of Matsyasana

• Opens your pectoralis muscles of your chest, the intercostal muscles between your ribs, and upper portion of psoas muscles in your hips.
• Improves the quality of your breath by opening the accessory muscles of breathing.
• Opens muscles in your abdomen and in the front of your neck.
• Relieves thoracic and mid back spinal tension.
• Strengthens musculature in your back and neck.
• Traditionally thought to sitmulate organs in the abdomen and throat.

Precautions 

• It is best to avoid this pose if you suffer from high or low blood pressure.
• Also, patients with insomnia and migraine are asked to abstain from the Fish Pose.
• If you have had a back injury, it is strongly recommended that you avoid this asana