Vakrasana:

• Sit down stretching your legs forward on the ground.
• Keep your hands beside your thighs or buttocks.
• Bend your right leg straight and stretched.
• Keep the left foot beside the right knee and the left knee raised upward.
• Inhale and raise the arms shoulder high, keeping the elbows straight.
• Exhaling, twist to the left, place the right arm by the outer side of the left knee and hold the left ankle with the right hand.
• Take the left hand behind the back keeping the palms on the floor.
• Look backward towards the left side.
• Hold on the position.
• The final position of each stage should be held while breathing, naturally. Hold the position as long as comfortable.
• Then inhale and raise the right arm shoulder high, keeping the elbows straight.
• Exhaling, release the left twist, place the right hand by the side of right buttock and left hand by the side of left buttock.
• Take a deep breath and relax.
• Repeat the same from the other side.
• Practice on both sides.

Benefits of Vakrasana:

• Increases the elasticity of the spine and tones the spinal nerves.
• Stretches the muscles.
• Helps to get relief in stiffness of vertebrae.
• Massages the abdominal organs.
• Reduces belly fat.
• Regulates the secretion of digestive juices useful for different digestive disorders.
• Loosens the hip joints, relieving stiffness.
• Flab on the lateral side of the abdomen gets reduced.
• Specifically stimulates Navel chakra or Manipur chakra.

• Kundalini Shakti is sublimated.