1. HOW YOGA HEALS YOUR MIND AND BODY
Yoga is a complete mind and body workout in itself. Since yoga involves stretching of your body and it opens up air channels of your body which allows proper breathing. This results in calming of your nerves. Yoga heals your body through its various posses in which your body gets stretched and strengthened. Yoga poses relieves your stress, body tension, improves your digestion and liver and kidney function.
2. YOGA KEEPS YOUR BODY IN SHAPE
Benefits of yoga are countless and one of biggest advantage of following yoga is that it helps to shed extra pounds from your body. Yoga helps maintain your body weight and melts away the stored fats from your body. Yoga poses target different parts of your body, these poses reduce fats from your body and help you to keep your body toned and in shape.
3. COBRA POSE – 5 REPS WITH 15-30 SECONDS HOLD
Cobra pose tones up your stomach, improves flexibility of your body and improves your posture. To do this pose, lie flat on your stomach and stretch your arms and legs out. Inhale deeply, arch your back and lift your upper body. Keep your lower body grounded on the floor and stay in this pose for 30 seconds and release.
4. BOW POSE – 5 REPS WITH 15-30 SECONDS HOLD
Bow pose helps to improve your posture, stretches your front body and strengthens your back muscles. Lie flat on your stomach with your hands on your either sides. Inhale and bend your knees and bring your heels towards your buttocks. Raise your upper body and let your hands reach out to hold your ankles. Hold the bow pose for 15 to 30 seconds. Exhale and release the pose and bring your body to starting position.
5. SUN SALUTATIONS –BENEFITS
Sun salutation is a combination of 12 yoga poses that forms as one complete yoga pose. This pose is a complete body workout in itself. The pose stretches your entire body and keeps you energised through the day. It helps to improve blood circulation, oxygen flow in the body and eliminates toxins from your body.
6. SUN SALUTATION – STEPS
Stand with your feet together and inhale. Lift your arms and as you exhale, bring your arms down and join your palms in front of your chest. Inhale, raise your arms and stretch backwards, as you exhale, bend forward and try to touch your knees with your forehead. Stretch your right leg backward while your palms are placed on the floor and stretch your left leg. As you come down on floor, hold your spine out and let your chin, chest and knees touch the floor. Inhale, stretch and bend backwards with your hands on the floor. Exhale, lean forward and bring your right foot forward and then bring your left foot in. Inhale deeply and stretch back from your waist and return back to starting position.
