Hemant Kumar

Uddiyana Bandha

Benefits

•Strengthens the abdominal muscles and diaphragm
•Massages abdominal viscera, the solar plexus, and the heart and lungs
•Increases gastric fire; improves digestion, assimilation, and elimination; and purifies the digestive tract of toxins
•Stimulates blood circulation in the abdomen and blood flow to the brain
•Stimulates and lifts the energy of the lower belly (apana vayu), to unite it with the energies localized in the navel (samana vayu) and heart (prana vayu)