Instant Relaxation Technique

Instant relaxation technique

I. Starting position (Sthiti): shavasana

II. Practice

• Bring your legs together; join the heels and toes together and place the palms by the side of the thighs.
• Keep the face relaxed and smiling throughout.
• Start tightening from the toes.
• Tighten the ankle joints , and calf muscles.
• Pull up the knee caps.
• Tighten the thigh muscles.
• Tighten the buttocks.
• Breathe out and pull the abdomen inside.
• Make fists and tighten the arms.
• Inhale and expand the chest.
• Tighten the shoulders, neck muscles and the facial muscles.
• Tighten the whole body from the toes to the head for sometime.
• Relax the whole body instantaneously.
• Legs and arms go apart with the open palms facing the roof.
• Assume the most comfortable position, let the whole body sink down.
• Let all the groups of muscles relax.
• Relax the whole body.
• Enjoy the relaxation.

Instant Relaxation Technique