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A Small List Of Restaurants In Orange County...which is Worth A try for all food Lovers.

Thai Chilli at Anaheim

Dosa Palace at Irvine

Mas Islamic at Orange

Nirvana at Fountain Valley

Darya at Santa Ana

Royalkhyber at Santa Ana

Onami at LagunaHills
 
These are few restaurants which me and my husband enjoyed dining in... 

kolam's in the moth of margali..........

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Bound Angle Pose, also called Cobbler's Pose after the typical sitting position of Indian cobblers, is an excellent groin- and hip-opener.

(BAH-dah cone-AHS-anna)
baddha = bound
kona = angle

Benefits

• Stimulates abdominal organs, ovaries and prostate gland, bladder, and kidneys
• Stimulates the heart and improves general circulation
• Stretches the inner thighs, groins, and knees
• Helps relieve mild depression, anxiety, and fatigue
• Soothes menstrual discomfort and sciatica
• Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
• Therapeutic for flat feet, high blood pressure, infertility, and asthma
• Consistent practice of this pose until late into pregnancy is said to help ease childbirth.
• Traditional texts say that Baddha Konasana destroys disease and gets rid of fatigue.

Contraindications/Cautions

• Groin or knee injury: Only perform this pose with blanket support under the outer thighs.

Step by Step

1. Sit with your legs straight out in front of you, raising your pelvis on a blanket if your hips or groins are tight. Exhale, bend your knees, pull your heels toward your pelvis, then drop your knees out to the sides and press the soles of your feet together.
2. Bring your heels as close to your pelvis as you comfortably can. With the first and second finger and thumb, grasp the big toe of each foot. Always keep the outer edges of the feet firmly on the floor. If it isn't possible to hold the toes, clasp each hand around the same-side ankle or shin.
3. Sit so that the pubis in front and the tailbone in back are equidistant from the floor. The perineum then will be approximately parallel to the floor and the pelvis in a neutral position. Firm the sacrum and shoulder blades against the back and lengthen the front torso through the top of the sternum.
4. Never force your knees down. Instead release the heads of the thigh bones toward the floor. When this action leads, the knees follow.
5. Stay in this pose anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes. Then inhale, lift your knees away from the floor, and extend the legs back to their original position.

Beginners Tip

It can be difficult to lower the knees toward the floor. If your knees are very high and your back rounded, be sure to sit on a high support, even as high as a foot off the floor.

Deepen the Pose

Imagine you have two partners, each pressing inward (toward the pelvis) on a knee. From the middle of your sacrum, push out along the outer thighs against this imaginary resistance. Then push the heels firmly together from the knees.

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This posture promotes flexibility in the spine and encourages the chest to open.

(boo-jang-GAHS-anna)

bhujanga = serpent, snake

Benefits

• Strengthens the spine
• Stretches chest and lungs, shoulders, and abdomen
• Firms the buttocks
• Stimulates abdominal organs
• Helps relieve stress and fatigue
• Opens the heart and lungs
• Soothes sciatica
• Therapeutic for asthma
• Traditional texts say that Bhujangasana increases body heat, destroys disease, and awakens kundalini.

Contraindications/Cautions

• Back injury
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Headache
• Pregnancy

Step by Step

1. Lie prone on the floor. Stretch your legs back, tops of the feet on the floor. Spread your hands on the floor under your shoulders. Hug the elbows back into your body.
2. Press the tops of the feet and thighs and the pubis firmly into the floor.
3. On an inhalation, begin to straighten the arms to lift the chest off the floor, going only to the height at which you can maintain a connection through your pubis to your legs. Press the tailbone toward the pubis and lift the pubis toward the navel. Narrow the hip points. Firm but don't harden the buttocks.
4. Firm the shoulder blades against the back, puffing the side ribs forward. Lift through the top of the sternum but avoid pushing the front ribs forward, which only hardens the lower back. Distribute the backbend evenly throughout the entire spine.
5. Hold the pose anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds, breathing easily. Release back to the floor with an exhalation.

Modifications & Props

If you are very stiff it might be better to avoid doing this pose on the floor. Brace a metal folding chair against a wall, and do the pose with your hands on the front edge of the seat, balls of the feet on the floor.

Beginners Tip

Don't overdo the backbend. To find the height at which you can work comfortably and avoid straining your back, take your hands off the floor for a moment, so that the height you find will be through extension.

Deepen the Pose

If you have the flexibility in the armpits, chest, and groins you can move into a deeper backbend. Walk the hands a little farther forward and straighten your elbows, turning the arms outward. Lift the top of the sternum straight toward the ceiling.

My lovable "Hi" to all who have been visiting my blog. I would love to add another important topic to this blog, "Health". when we speak about health it doesn’t mean only food, but also tells how we give physical and mental relaxation to our body. So I would like to tell you the best bet is yoga which personally I learnt for an year now and gained lot of relaxation through it for my health. So I would love to share few asanas and explain how it support our body to be healthy....

• Since there is little evaporation in microwave cooking, food cooks in very little water -- only a tablespoon or two is needed for vegetables.

• When reheating something liquid such as soup, stir before, during, and after reheating.

• Be careful to not overcook. Check food at the minimum time, then cook more if necessary. You can always add more cooking time, but like a food processor, once you pass the optimum time, you can't take the time away

Pappu thalimpu

Ingridients

1/2 cup green gram
2 green chillis
4 red dry chillis
1/4tsp mustard seeds
1/4tsp cumin seeds
2 falkes of garlic chopped
curry leaves
salt
oil

Method:-

preasure cook green gram with green chillis for 2 whistels with enough water the dhal shld bcom soft then season it all the above ingridetns. add spice according to ur taste with red dry chillis u can also use oil or ghee for seasoning.