Earth Element Yoga: Poses To Increase The Earth Element

The five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space) constitute our entire reality. Out of these, the sense most associated with the earth element is the smell. In order to feel balance in the Earth’s elements, it is important to feel a sense of grounding and stability. An imbalanced Earth element can cause anxiety, paranoia, fragility, mood swings, and forgetfulness.

The earth element can be better connected through yoga postures. Earth element yoga poses focus on feeling confident, grounded, resilient, secure, flexible, and strong.

Here are 5 yoga poses to connect you to the earth element that you can practice any time you want to let go of anxiety and feel more grounded. ,

Best Earth Element Yoga Practices

The poses that encourage a sense of grounding, stability, and rooted (like Sukhasana, Savasana, Virabhadrasana, and Balasana) are ideal for practise into this element. Just like earth, emotionally you are cool, stable, heavy, dense, and hard but flexible. .

Some yoga poses will connect you with your earth element in your daily yoga practice.

1. Mountain Pose (Tadasana)

Tadasana has been considered one of the basic asanas which can be done with great ease and patience. It is also a great foundational pose for all other standing poses and also is a great foundational pose to help you connect with the earth through your body, breath, and mind.

• First of all, stand straight and keep the neck straight in the waist.
• Now take both your hands above the head and join the fingers together.
• Now straighten both your hands and stress.
• Balance the body on the toes or fingers while lifting your audio upwards.
• During this, tension (stretch) should arise in your whole body from the feet to the fingers of the hands.
• Remained in the posture position for 10 seconds.
• Now while exhaling, come back to the starting position.
• In this asana, one should stand keeping the head, waist, heels, etc. in a straight line.
• Keeping the right stretch in the hands and feet is essential in Tadasana.

2. Tree Pose (Vriksasana)

Balancing poses, such as Tree Pose, is a great way to become close to the earth, tune improve stability. This is a foundational pose that teaches you how to root to the ground. It is also a great foundational pose begin to feel connected to root to the ground and support the muscle tissue and fat tissue.

• To do Vrikshasana, stand straight on the seat.
• Combine heel and toe. Both arms should be joined with the body.
• While inhaling, bend your right leg from the knee and apply its heel to the left thigh root.
• The direction of the toes should be downwards and keep the knee stretched on the right side.
• While inhaling, take both hands above the head and join them in the Namaskar mudra.
• Fingers to fingers and thumb to thumb. Keep the hands stretched upwards.
• Keep the vision fixed in one place so that the balance remains.

3. Hero Pose (Virasana)

This seated pose invites a sense of grounding with the main focus on the feet and legs and your connection with the earth. Virasana also developing flexibility in your hamstrings, back, thighs, and hip joints. Additationaly, Its version Supta Virasana a little challenging to feel more grounding. 

• Begin with sitting in Vajrasana, in which you sit bent over and your spine is straight.
• If you are doing the pose for the first time, then use a towel or yoga block.
• Now slowly bending the right knee outward, bring the foot out.
• Do the same process with the other knee as well.
• At the end you will be on the hips, both knees bent and feet out.
• Remain in this state for 15 to 20 seconds.

4. Child’s Pose (Balasana)

Child’s Pose allows your entire body to make contact with the ground and allows you to center yourself. This is also a comfortable pose to begin or end your yoga sequence.

• Sit on the mat in the position of Vajrasana.
• Keep both your knees close to each other.
• Now while inhaling, raise both your hands up, and while exhaling, bend your head forward. Rest the hands and head on the ground.
• Now the position of your body is in the position of Balasana. Maintain this position and gently give pressure on the thigh with the help of the chest. Remember that your hips should be touching the feet.

5. Corpse Pose (Savasana)

Corpse Pose may seem like an easy pose, but it may quite challenging. In this pose your entire body contacted with the ground and relaxed.

• Lie comfortably on the mat on your back, close your eyes, and spread both legs apart.
• Keep the body completely relaxed, and keep in mind that both the toes of your feet are bent towards the side. Hands should be with the body but keep it at a distance. Keep the palms open and facing upwards.
• Slowly pay more attention to each part of the body and keep the speed of breathing slow.
• Do not fall asleep while doing asanas, keep the focus on the body and breath.

Conclusion

To balanced the earth element, some yoga poses may halp to feel you confident, grounded, flexible, safe, resilient, and strong. As the other hand earth element is associated with the first chakra, Muladhara or root chakra (is based on the earth element) also stimulated with such as asana: Balasana, Tadasana, Sukhasana, and Padmasana and thus affects the foundation of them all.