Showing posts with label Yoga Poses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoga Poses. Show all posts

Friday, 21 March 2014

You can have a continuous weight loss program for free and not need to do extreme exercises. If you are keen on learning how to do yoga to lose weight, you will benefit from better all around health, avoid hazardous side effects and experience potentially permanent weight loss.

The best part about yoga is it leaves you fresher and much more energetic. Yoga helps you achieve your required weight loss. Here are some yoga exercises that can make you lose weight :

Forward Bend

Soften the knees and bend forward while you exhale, letting your torso hang before your thighs. Keeping your arms straight and fingers locked together, lift them up and also over your head (ultimately reaching toward the ground in front of your feet).

Warrior Pose

The warrior pose strengthens the hamstrings, thighs, legs and ankles because the body weight is transferred around the thighs with the forward bend. It will help to stimulate abdominal organs which will help increase the stamina. Stamina developed can help you to keep going over a longer period of time.

Bow Pose

This is much more of an advanced yoga pose but not just helps in burning the fat but additionally helps in toning of legs and arms. One can feel the stretch within the abdominal region taking this pose. The stretch helps you to loosen up the fat in the region. Continous practicing of the asana further melts the loosen stomach fat.

Plank

Inhale as you shift forward in to the top of a pushup position together with your arms straight. Exhale, bend your elbows (have them pointing back and hugging the body), and lower your body until your chest is on the floor.

Cobra

Uncurl your toes so the tops of the feet are touching the floor and press your tailbone down. Hug your elbows in while you inhale, straighten your arms, and raise your chest off the ground. Exhale while you gently release your body to the ground. Inhale, curl your toes under, and press your hips up and back to downward-facing dog.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Yoga is one of the most effective exercising mediums to keep one's body healthy and fit. It has innumerable yoga poses for every body part including lower back. Lack of movement makes the muscles in our low back so weak that people cannot do anything else than to are afflicted by lower back pain. However, there is a great news that one can easily get rid of low back pain with regular yoga poses.

Supine Hamstring Stretch Pose

Lying on your back, bend your right knee to your chest and place a strap or rolled-up towel round the ball of your foot. Straighten your leg toward the ceiling. Press out through both heels. When the lower back feels strained, bend the left knee and put the foot on the ground. Hold for 3-5 minutes after which switch to the left let for 3-5 minutes.

Downward Facing Dog Pose

Even though many people think of the tried and true Downward Facing Dog like a go-to stretch for the calves, it is good for the back, too. Downward Facing Dog stretches out and aligns the spine, undoing all of the hunching over we do throughout the day.

Triangle Pose

Triangle pose is really a test of balance and wonderful for back alignment. This pose helps lengthen the edges of the torso where a surprising quantity of tension can hide. In case your neck is bothering you too, go on and looks down at your feet instead of your top hand.

Pigeon Pose

From all-fours, take the right knee behind your right wrist together with your lower leg at a diagonal toward your left hip. Square off your hips toward the floor. Bend forward. Widen the elbows and put one hand on top of the other like a pillow for your forehead. Hold 2-3 minutes after which switch to the left side for 2-3 minutes.

Legs In the Wall Pose

back pain, low back pain, yoga for lower back pain, back pain relief, yoga for backScoot your buttocks completely into the wall and swing the feet up the wall. This pose is great for relaxing the muscles from the lower back and drains stagnant fluid in the feet and ankles. Do that pose after a challenging workout and try to after traveling by plane. Hold for 5-10 minutes.