I started doing yoga in my childhood during 4th and 5th grade.After a long gap now i have started doing yoga. I’m 21 now.When i practice hasta uttanasana i experience an instant headache. I feel brain stops working.The headache intensifies when I bend more backward while doing surya namaskar or practicing hasta uttanasana seperately.Is it normal ???
I inhale and hold my breadth when bending backwards and exhale when i return back to the original position.
Without contact with the student it is challenging for a teacher to give sound feedback.
My intuition here says this is a neck issue. As such, I’d want to see your practice, paying particular attention to Vira I, Bhujangasana, Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Urdhva Dhanurasana et al.
You can try not retaining the breath. In otherwords make the duration of the pose relative to the breathing. Inhale to go back into the pose then once you convert to exhalation return to Tadasana. See if that alleviates the headache.
Again my sense is that you are pinching or compressing in the cervical spine but that may not be the case at all. Can’t tell.
Please address this with your teacher or some other alignment-based teacher who can guide you safely without removing the effect.
warmly,
gordon
[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;77165]Without contact with the student it is challenging for a teacher to give sound feedback.
My intuition here says this is a neck issue. As such, I’d want to see your practice, paying particular attention to Vira I, Bhujangasana, Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Urdhva Dhanurasana et al.
You can try not retaining the breath. In otherwords make the duration of the pose relative to the breathing. Inhale to go back into the pose then once you convert to exhalation return to Tadasana. See if that alleviates the headache.
Again my sense is that you are pinching or compressing in the cervical spine but that may not be the case at all. Can’t tell.
Please address this with your teacher or some other alignment-based teacher who can guide you safely without removing the effect.
warmly,
gordon[/QUOTE]
Im not using a teacher im doing it by myself since i have experience in doing yoga