5 Yoga Asanas For Stammering

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New Delhi: Stuttering or stammering is an inability to speak clearly. This condition affects millions of people worldwide. The reasons children stammer include neuromuscular complications, incapability to control speech organs muscles, difficultly in moving the lips and the tongue, and obstruction within the speech organs.

If stammering takes place at an advanced age, psychological factors such as a tense family atmosphere, arousal, anxiety, scorn, and loss of confidence are the likely causes.

Here are some yoga asanas that can help:

Easy Conch Shell Pose

It is also known as Sahaj Shankh Mudra. To practice this pose, sit on your heels. Now, interlink fingers of both hands. Put the thumbs on your index finger and press gently. This yoga posture is beneficial in stammering and other diseases related to the throat.

Yoga Of Awareness

It is also called Kundalini Yoga. A study conducted on stroke patients illustrated the potential benefits of this yoga on speech impairment. It also demonstrated the need to study its effect on other speech disorders such as stammering and speech impediment. Kundalini yoga has been found to benefit many other health disorders also. Learn yoga of awareness from a certified yoga teacher to benefit in stuttering.

Lion Pose

It is also called Simhasana. Doing this, one resembles a roaring lion. Start in the child’s pose, which is done by sitting on your heels and extend your arms and hand. Now press forward and roar like a lion. This yoga pose is beneficial in overcoming stutters and voice-related problems.

Victorious breathing

Victorious breathing or Ujjayi is a breathing technique frequently used in Yoga. Practicing Ujjayi ten times is quite beneficial in stammering and throat-related disorders. To practice Ujjayi breathing, you have to partially close your glottis-it is the part of the throat that closes when you swallow but is open while breathing. This type of breathing creates a whispering sound and is loud enough so that you can hear it. This breathing has a calming effect on the nervous system.

Brahma gesture

It is also known as Brahma mudra. This pose is beneficial for throat-related problems including stammering and stuttering. To practice Brahma’s gesture, sit in a cross-legged position on a mat. Put your hands on your knees with your index finger touching the thumb. Now turn your neck to the right side for 5 seconds. Now turn it to the other side and hold for 5 seconds. Bring your neck to its original position now. Thereafter raise your chin up and hold it there for 5 seconds. After that bring your chin down and hold it there for 5 seconds. Come to the original position.

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