The 10 Yoga Poses You Should Do Everyday

 

Simply simply, practising yoga every day improves your mood. The ten yoga poses listed here can help you start your day with a calm mind and a rested body, no matter where you are or how much time you have. Beyond the mental benefits of yoga, a healthy lifestyle depends on how your body feels after a good stretch.

Benefits Of Doing Daily Yoga Poses

There are so many reasons to add yoga to your daily routine including:

 

1. Helping Stiff and Sore Muscles

Stretching helps to loosen up tense, aching muscles, which is its most evident advantage. Stretching helps to relieve muscle pain, whether it is brought on by a strenuous workout or stiffness from inactivity. Additionally, it's a less expensive and more natural alternative to taking Advil or Tylenol, both of which can be detrimental to your body over time. Stretching after exercise keeps your muscles from stiffening and hurting the next day, allowing you to be prepared to work out again tomorrow.

2. Increases Range of Motion

Stretching helps to ease tight, stiff muscles, which is its most evident effect. Stretching helps to relieve muscle soreness, whether it is caused by a strenuous activity or being inactive. Furthermore, taking Tylenol or Advil, both of which can be detrimental to your body over time, is not only more expensive but also less natural. After exercising, stretch your muscles to keep them from stiffening up and becoming sore the following day, enabling you to be ready to work out again the following day.

3. Relieves Stress

Don't undervalue the negative effects stress can have on your physical and emotional health. A little stretch break along with deep breathing might give you a pause throughout the day to calm down and find clarity.

The key to feeling well, avoiding injuries, moving effectively, and living a healthy, active lifestyle well into your second half of life is to preserve flexibility. And even though you undoubtedly already know that yoga offers the advantages of flexibility that everyone seeks, you might not have the time or the inclination to start a regular yoga practise. But in all honesty, even just a few poses every day will make a difference in how your body feels and looks. To get a quick stretch each day that will improve your body and mind, try one of the ten yoga poses listed below.

10 Yoga Poses To Do Every Day

This 5-minute yoga workout gives you 10 yoga poses you should add to your daily workout routine:

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1. Standing Side Bend

Lengthen a compressed spine and a tight back by moving in a new direction: sideways!

1. As you breathe in, stand tall with your feet and legs together and extend both arms straight up in the air.
2. Exhale as you stretch your left arm over your head and gradually bend your body to the right. Lower your right arm down the right side of your body.
3. Exhale as you repeat on the left side, inhaling to bring your arms back up to the centre.

Hold for 30 seconds.

2. Downward Dog

Stretch the entire backside of your body: your back, hamstrings, calves, and Achilles.

1. Start by kneeling on your mat and placing your hands, fingers spread wide, beneath your shoulders.
2. Pushing your torso up off the mat so that only your hands and feet are there, tuck your toes under and contract your abs as you do so.
3. To gently move your heels toward the floor and your torso toward your thighs, press through your hands.

Hold for 30 seconds.

3. Up Dog/Cobra

Open your chest and the front of your shoulders for better posture.

1. Start by lying face-down on your mat with your hand just beneath your shoulders and your head slightly raised.
2. The tips of your feet should be on the mat when you point your toes.
3. Press through your hands and the tops of your feet as you exhale to lift your torso off the ground and straighten your arms.

Hold for 30 seconds.

4. Crescent Lunge

Open tight hip flexors and lengthen your spinal column.

1. From a standing position, step the ball of your left foot to the back of the mat. Keep your feet slightly wider than one another like you’re standing on railroad tracks.
2. Reach both arms straight overhead and bend the right knee to 90 degrees.
3. Relax your shoulders as you continue reaching up and lengthening the back leg. Hold 30 seconds and switch sides.

Hold for 30 seconds.

5. Cat

Relieve a tight back and maintain spinal flexibility.

1. Start on your knees with your hands right beneath your shoulders and your hips.
2. To begin, put your spine in a "neutral" or long position. Then, gradually tuck your tailbone and lower the crown of your head to gently round your back.
3. As you hold the stretch, pull your navel toward your spine and take a few slow breaths.

Hold for 30 seconds.

6. Cow

Relieve a tight back and maintain spinal flexibility.

1. Start on your knees with your hands right beneath your shoulders and your hips.
2. Beginning with your spine in a "neutral" or long position, gradually lift your heart and tailbone to cause a little downward bend in your back. Make careful to concentrate on raising; do not arch your back. Allow the curve to develop organically.
3. With a relaxed neck and a slight upward gaze, breathe slowly.

Hold for 30 seconds.

7. Pigeon

One of the best hips stretches around. Open hips and lower back with traditional pigeon or do it lying on your back.

1. Start off in the plank position. Place your right foot as near to your left hand as you can by contracting your abs and bringing your right knee into your right hand.
2. Keep your hips even while relaxing your weight through the centre of your hips, keeping your back leg long.
3. Hold your breath for 30 seconds. Return to the plank and change sides.

Hold for 30 seconds.

8. Happy Baby

A yoga pose of relaxation! You will also open your groin, inner thighs, and lower back.

1. Lay on your back and, using your index and middle fingers, grip your big toes.
2. So that knees pull down toward shoulders, gently draw your toes down. Keep your elbows softly pushing your knees apart.
3. Breathe easily. 30 seconds of holding

Hold for 30 seconds.

9. Yogi Squat

Yogi squat has been called the “pose of youth.” Keeping your hip flexors open and hip joint mobile, this pose will keep you walking and moving like a young person.

1. On your feet, crouch down with your tailbone between your ankles and your hands clasped at your chest.
2. Keep your hands firmly clasped together and press your elbows into your inner thighs at the same moment.
3. Take a 30-second breather and hold.

Hold for 30 seconds.

10. Windshield Wiper

Stretch external hips, and lower back, and relieve sciatica.

1. Start out on your back, knees bent, feet flat on the ground, and arms outstretched.
2. Your knees should be gently lowered to the floor to the left of your body. Breathe and look to the right.
3. Pull your knees slowly back to the starting position while contracting your abdominals.
4. Your knees should be gently lowered to the floor to the right of your body. Breathe and look to the left.

 Hold for 30 seconds.

 

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