While there are several bandha poses in yoga, the most common are the mula bandha, uddiyana bandha and jalandhara bandha. You can perform these poses together to induce a calm, meditative state and balance energy.
Do a Yoga Quad Stretch
Keeping the body flexible and limber is important if you want to reduce the risk of injuries. This is especially true even if you're not an athlete. People suffer back sprains or muscle spasms even while performing the most routine, everyday activities. Reduce the risks of injuries by exercising regularly. If you don't have the time to do a rigorous workout routine, there are quick stretching exercises you can perform that will take only a few minutes. The yoga quad stretch loosens your hip flexors and quadriceps and helps flexes your body.
Do Yoga Standing Chest Stretches
There’s more than one way to stretch the chest with yoga poses. However, few are as simple and convenient to do as yoga standing chest stretches. Whether you make it a regular part of your daily yoga routine, or it’s something you do on your lunch break at work, yoga standing chest stretches are a great way to open up the lungs to deeper breathing and rejuvenation.
Recycle a Yoga Mat
Yoga mats do not last forever and eventually become flat. Once the mat is flat, the item no longer supports your weight and may work against you when you are performing various yoga positions. Like other exercise equipment, there are various ways of recycling your yoga mat and giving the object a second life. Recycling your yoga mat helps keep it out of a landfill and can even helps other people, if you donate the mat to a charity or other group.
Do a High Lunge Pose in Yoga
The high lunge or utthita ashwa sanchalanasana is a yoga pose that brings a lot of beneficial contributions to the body--it increases the strength of the lower body structures, opens up the hips which improves circulation around the area, stretches the thigh, groin and the deep muscles of the pelvis (psoas muscles) and elongates the spine. The position of the chest increases lung capacity and the placement of the abdomen enhances essential stimulations on the abdominal muscles.