bandha

Start the practice with your torso rounded forward, perform Uddiyana Bandha, and then stand upright, with your hands on your hips (Iyengar).

Thus, moola bandha allows us to gain control over the endocrine system as well as energize the body and mind.

The correct use of abdominal support in the form of a gentle Uddiyana bandha will help to facilitate this.

Learning how to use the bandha ( muscle lock ) to support the body alignment and increases the flexibility of the stiff part.

When moola bandha is performed, pelvic stimulation activates parasympathetic fibers merging from the pelvic spinal cord.

The initial impetus to perform moola bandha stimulates the cerebral cortex of the central nervous system.

When all three band has are activated at the same time, it is called Maha Bandha, the great lock.

Moola Bandha (perineal contraction) stimulates both the sensory-motor and the autonomic nervous system in the pelvic region.

Finally, jalandhara bandha also compresses the carotid sinuses which help in lowering the blood pressure.

Jalandhara bandha (throat compression) stretches the neck, pulling the spinal cord and thus the brain.

Moola bandha is also excellent for treating prolapse, leucorrhoea and urinary (stress) incontinence.

Sympathetic nervous stimulation also occurs in moola bandha but at a subdued level.

Moola bandha has also proved to be useful in childbirth.

An important component of the breathing system is mula and uddiyana bandha .

This suspension of breath (kumbhaka) plays a definite role in the perfection of moola bandha.

With the practice of moola bandha we see an elaborate interplay of the different aspects of the nervous system.

As mooladhara chakra is the storehouse of prana, and moola bandha the key to release it, control is essential.

For example, both moola bandha and uddiyana bandha are extremely useful in stabilizing menstrual periods .