INVARIABLY the first question I am asked about Yoga is, ‘Do you stand on your head every morning?’ To the uninitiated this standing on the head represents the sum total of Yoga, and it is thereupon dismissed as a foible of cranks and crackpots. Not one person in a hundred asks me why I stand on my head.
In fact it does not cross the mind of the average person that it could possibly have any therapeutic value or indeed any value at all except to establish one as an eccentric. But if radiant good health is the lot of those who practise this Headstand, then ‘long live eccentricity’ say I.
But the Headstand or Sirshasana has …