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Heal Yourself with Yoga By Ram E R Kumar

PREFACE

I am not a professional exponent of Yoga or a guru

peddling spiritualism. The reason for my writing

this medico-yogic treatise was my father's 40-year

bouts with asthma and the general ill-health of the

family—afflicted by diabetes, rheumatism as age

advanced and, of course, asthma, among others.

Unfortunately, this heavy burden is carried on to

the present day in the different branches of the

family tree.

With some exceptions, like myself. If heredity

has a say, I should be spending sleepless nights,

wheezing and coughing, fighting with my bodily

system for the supply of every ounce of oxygen

down the trachea. Yet I enjoy blissful nights and

zest-filled days.

Paradoxically, I owe my general good health—so

far, what the future holds I know not—-to my father's

suffering and his final conquest of asthma. Ours

was a very orthodox Brahmin family; yet I remem-

ber my father gulping down chicken soup, powder-

ed crocodile liver, black-monkey rasayana—anything

and everything which was rumoured to bring even

temporary relief from those crippling asthmatic

attacks. Needless to say, he had tried all systems of

medicine—allopathy, ayurveda, unani, homoeopathy

and, of course, quackery—all in vain.

He had resigned himself to those asthmatic

attacks, when he came across a series of articles on

Yoga asanas in a magazine. Believing that he could

not lose—for his knowledge of Yoga then was confin-

ed to the belief that it should be strictly left to the

world-weary and the weird living in Himalayan

isolation or to the showman in the circus—he started

practising the Yogic poses, with the magazine

articles acting as guide and guru. Six months pass-

ed, and it seemed to him that the asthmatic attacks

had become less frequent, less violent.

Asthma had so far not claimed me for itself, and

father decided that notwithstanding my age — I

was in my pre-teens — I should be started on Yoga

practice immediately. Thus began my study and

practice of Yoga.

He had by then got hold of many books on Yoga

asanas. Among them I remember those by V. N.

Kumaraswamy, Bangalore Sundaram and Swami

Sivananda. We both avidly read them and practised

the poses almost fanatically. Within two years,

father could claim that he had finally controlled a

40-year-old demon which no medicine could kill.

If I can congratulate myself on anything in life,

it is my sticking to Yogic practice like a leech despite

the little inconveniences that cropped up occasion-

ally. And I may claim that it is to this steadfastness

that I owe my good health and energy.

Having gained something, I wanted to share. It

is this desire which goaded me into this venture of

writing. Though initially I wanted to serialise the

articles in a magazine, a casual reference about the

manuscript to a friend led me to approach some

publishers. To my pleasant surprise, more than one

showed their interest in it.

It is my good fortune that the MS finally found

itself in the able hands of Dr. R. J. Mehta of D. B.

Taraporevala Sons and Co. Private Ltd. and Dr. K.

P. Dave, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, both of

whom have done a thorough job of revising the text.

I owe them my sincere gratitude.

I should also mention my gratitude for the support

extended by my wife Uma, a teacher, and my

daughters Meera, a medical student, and Krishna,

all of whom practise Yoga asanas.

My efforts will not have been in vain if this book

helps alleviate the suffering of even one person.

Bombay E. R. RAM KUMAR



CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

What Is Yoga

How To Do Yoga Asanas

The Body Machine

Padnlasana

Bhujangasana

Shalabhasana

Dhanurasana

Paschimothanasana — I

Paschimothanasana — II

Halasana — I

Halasana — II

Mayurasana

Sarvangasana — I

Sarvangasana— II

Sarvangasana — III

Sarvangasana — IV

Sarvangasana — V

Sarvangasana — VI

Sarvangasana — VII

Sarvangasana — VIII

Sarvangasana — IX

Matsyasana — I

Matsyasana — II

Sirshasana — I

Sirshasana — II

Sirshasana — III

Sirshasana — IV

Sirshasana — V

Sirshasana — VI

Sirshasana — VII

Aswini Mudra — I

Aswini Mudra — II

Vipareethakarani

Ardha-Matsyendrasana

Yoga Mudra

Padahasthasana

Trikonasana

Vajrasana

Uddiyana

Nauli Kriya

Shavasana

Pranayama

Time Schedule

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