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This asana helps in relieving stress and insomnia and improves blood circulation, know how to do it.
Samira Vishwas | November 16, 2025 10:24 AM CST

Contrarily performing asanas: Nowadays everyone has become busy in the busy life and is also lazy. Due to not being able to take care of health in a mechanical life, the problems of stress, fatigue and insomnia increase. To avoid these problems, it is important for us to remain calm. There are many simple yoga asanas which prevent problems like stress and insomnia. One of these yoga asanas is Viparita Karani Asana which improves blood circulation and prevents many health problems from increasing.

It is better to do the opposite

Viparita Karni Asana has been described as better by the Ministry of AYUSH of India. If we do this simple thing regularly in our daily life, we get benefits. Doing this asana provides relief from stress and insomnia and increases blood circulation in the body, calms the mind and heals the entire body. Actually, this Viparita Karni Asana is also called ‘Legs up the Wall Pose’. In this one has to lie down with the feet resting on the wall. This asana is easy even for beginners and can be done easily at home. Experts say that practicing for 5-10 minutes daily gives better results.

How to do Viparita Karni Asana

You can follow this easy procedure to do Viparita Karni Asana. This method has been explained by experts which is as follows.

For this, first spread a mat on the floor near the wall.
Lie down with your hips close to the wall, then place your feet upward on the wall, with the body in an L shape.
Keep your hands at the sides and palms up. Close your eyes and take a deep breath and stay in it for 5-10 minutes.

Know the benefits of doing this asana

If you do Viparita Karni Asana regularly, you get many benefits from it. With the feet elevated, blood flows easily towards the heart. Varicose veins and swelling of legs reduces. Oxygen supply to the brain increases, which reduces stress hormone (cortisol). Doing it before sleeping leads to deep sleep. The mind becomes calm. There is slight pressure on the abdominal organs, this provides relief from constipation and indigestion. Keeping the head down increases blood circulation to the brain and provides relief from headache and migraine. Fatigue of a long day accumulates in the legs, this asana provides relief.

These people should be careful while doing asanas

If you are doing yoga then you should also be a little careful. Pregnant women, high blood pressure patients, people suffering from neck or back pain should practice Viparita Karni Asana only under expert supervision. Those who have recently had stomach surgery should not do this yoga asana.


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