Whether you sit at a computer all day or are stuck in traffic, chronic back pain is a common complaint. These gentle yoga exercises will help stretch the mid-back, lower back and spine and help ease pain and discomfort from sitting all day. These yoga exercises will also help strengthen the back and spine as well.
Perform Child's Pose in Yoga
Yoga can help reduce stress and strengthen the body. The "Child's Pose" is a relaxing pose that offers time away from visual distractions. You can use it to settle down or balance after performing a strenuous exercise.
Change Your Body Shape by Exercise
Every person has a particular body shape. You may be bottom-heavy, or you may be thicker in the middle, for example. It is possible to change your body shape somewhat by exercising so you lose fat and build muscle in the right areas. One of the most common body shapes for women is the pear shape. Pear shapes have a smaller upper body in comparison to the lower body. To transform your body shape, reduce fat in your lower body and build strength and mass in the upper body.
Do Primary Poses in Ashtanga Yoga
The primary poses of Ashtanga Yoga are the initiating poses and, therefore, considered to be the most rigorous of Ashtanga discipline. Breath (Vinyasa) and movement (Tristhana) intertwine to purify and strengthen.
Improve Posture With Purvottanasana Yoga Pose
Many people find yoga as a way to relieve pain or as a tool for stress management. Yoga can also help prevent or rehabilitate postural issues that create pain.Standing straight with shoulders pulled back and arms rigid and chest puffed is almost a military stance of being “at attention.” Civilians, on the other hand, do not need to assume this stance.There are many yoga asanas, or poses, that can help you improve your posture. Poses that widen the chest and broaden the upper back as well as stretching the front of the shoulders (deltoids) while keeping the length of the upper mid-thoraic.Purvattanasana, builds strength in the large muscles of the upper back, trapezius and latissimus. By doing that, the chest will not hunch forward, collapsing towards the belly. Many year of slouching this way would create a rounded upper back that could become kyphosis: a painful “hunch back” shape to the upper back that compresses the neck bones and nerves.