I-AIM Health Care Centre

Institute of Ayurveda & Integrative Medicine

# 74/2, Jarakabande kaval, Yelahanka, Bangalore 560106

Yoga Therapy For Asthama

Guidelines for practice:
Perform the asanas with breathing awarness.
Without any prior warm up and loosening exercise asanas should not be performed to begin
with.
To improve the effect of the asanas it is best adviced to do it with eyes closed under the
supervision of a teacher or family members to avoid injury and to maintain the correct posture
to derive the full benifit of the asana.
Asanas and pranayamas should be performed 2-3hrs after or before food.
During the practice of any prnayama make sure to keep your spine and neck erect if not
possible take the support of the wall to avoid adverse effects of wrong postural practices.
It is adviced to be dressed in comfortable and loose clothing during practice.
Avoid giving any jerky movements while performing asanas.At the final posture try to breath
normally.
Avoid performing any asanas immediately after drinking water give a gap of 20-30 min before
and after the yoga practices.
At the point of uncontrollable thirst stop the practice, relax yourself and consume water to the
required level, relax till your respiratory rate has returned to the normal rate and then resume
the practice after 10-15 minutes.
During the relaxation techniques procedures avoid giving any unecessary movements and make
sure to keep your body as still as possible to attain maximum relaxation .
After the practice of any pranayama and relaxation techniques donot open your eyes
immediately,make sure to perform the palming by rubbing both your hands together for 30sec-
1min make a cup of your hand and place it around the orbit of the eyes and release your hands
and slowly open your eyes.
While getting up from the supine or lying down on your back postures always turn to either the
right or left side and get up form the sides to avoid crams or muscular spasams.
Start- 3 'Om' Kar
Yogasana- Will be done Slowly , with the breathing & awareness.
Note- Once you learnt the pracitce, try to do with closed eyes.
A.SUKSHMA VYAYAMA
Neck Movements
up and down movements
sidewards turning movenents
sidewards bending movements
rotation clockwise and anticlockwise

Shoulder movements
rotation
up and down movement
inward and outward movementt
Elbow movements:
Flexion and extension

Wrist joint movements

flexion and extension
supination and pronation
radial and ulnar deviation
rotation clockwise and anticlockeise

Hip Rotation
rotation clockwise and anticlockeise
Knee joint rotation
rotation clockwise and anticlockeise

Ankle joint movements

JANGHA SHAKTHI VIKASAKA-

THIGHS(CHAIR POSE)
PINDALI SHAKTHI VIKASAKA- CLAF
MUSCLE(SITUPS)
TOE TIGHTENING
ANKLE MOVEMENT(2)
Ankle movements
Flexion and extension
Inversion and eversion
Clockwise and anticlockwise rotation
Toes flexion and extension

KNEE CAP TIGHTENING RELEASING

PATELLA MOVEMENT(4)
Left and right movements
Up and down movements
Rotation clockwise and anticlockwise
KNEE STRETCHING AND MOVEMENT(2)
B.BREATHING EXERCISE
STANDING POSTURE
HANDS STRETCH BREATHING
STAGE1: HORIZONTAL 900
STAGE2: AT 1350
STAGE3: VERTICAL
HANDS IN AND OUT BREATHING
ANKEL STREATCH BREATHING(RISE
HEALS AND HANDS)

SITTING POSTURE

TIGER BREATHING
SASANKASANA BREATHING

PRONE POSTURE
BHUJANGASANA BREATHING

SUPINE POSTURE
STRAIGHT LEG RAISE BREATHING
STAGE I: ALTERNATE LEGS
STAGE II: BOTH LEGS

C.LOOSENING EXERCISE
STANDING
JOGGING
STAGE I: SLOW JOGGING
STAGE II: BACKWARD JOGGING
STAGE III: FORWARD JOGGING
STAGE IV:SIDE JOGGING
STAGE V: MUKHA DHOUTHI TO
RELAX

FOERWARD AND BACKWARD

BENDING
 SIDEWARD BENDING

SPINAL TWIST

PARIVRITTA TRIKONASANA

PAWANAMUKTASANA KRIYA

Folded leg lumbar stretch both legs exhale

bend, inhale come to center.

Setubandhasana breathing Inhale up,

Exhale down. 10 times.

Savasana- Please chant 'A'

kara-'U'kara,'M"kara & 'AUM' kara. Each 9
times. Obseved the silence & later feel the
rexation of the body, deep breathing &
calmness of the mind . Try to maintain this
throughout the day.

Pranayama-
Sectional and Full Yogic Breathing (Each 20 rounds)
1.Abdominal breathing,-(diaphragmatic breathing, or belly breathing) is using of diaphragm for
breathing. Stomach bulges out for inhale and goes in for exhale, causing diaphragm to move down and
up respectively. This Breathing fills air in lower parts of lungs.
Thoracic breathing)- is expanding chest outwards and upwards for inhale and bringing back to resting
position for exhale. Keeping no movements in stomach. This breathing fills air middle parts of lungs.
Clavicular breathing)-is raising collar bones and shoulders upwards and backwards for inhale and
bring back to resting position for exhale. Abdomen and chest remain still. This Svasa fills air are in
upper parts of lungs.
Full Yogic Breathing -is nothing but above 3 sectional breathing together where inhale and exhale are
done on the same sequence of Abdominal,Thoracic and Clavicular in one big breath.

watch the you tube video for better understanding

2-Nadishodhana (10 minutes)

Procedure : Adopt Nasagra mudra. Close your right nostril with the right thumb & inhale
deeply through the left nostril now close the left nostril with your ring finger and slowly exhale through
the right nostril, again inhale through the same right nostril then close the right nostril with the thmb
and exhale through the left nostril this makes one cycle . Continue for total 10 cycles 3times.

3-Bhramari (10 rounds)

Procedure : Keep your both the jaws touching each other . Now slowly & deeply inhale; while
exhaling chant 'NNN' like a humming bee sound. After the chanting feel the vibrations of the practice
throughout your body.

Dr. Aayyush Rajalinga- BNYS, PGDND, MBA-HM

Yoga & Naturopathy Doctor
IHC, FRLHT,
Bangalore 560106
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