Yoga has been used for hundreds of years to maintain the physique functioning holistically. Nonetheless, the advantages of yoga should not simply restricted to emphasize aid and psychological well-being. If practised correctly, yoga can assist to recharge the physique, eliminate toxins and adverse vitality, and maintain important organs functioning correctly. 

Sure yoga positions can assist assist, stability, and increase the immune system and enhance respiratory. And if performed commonly, yoga can assist to scale back stress systemically within the physique, which in flip cuts down on irritation.

Listed here are some yoga methods to recharge your immunity, strengthen your respiratory system, and increase your metabolism.

Fish pose:

This place can detoxify you, strengthen your immunity, and increase vitality ranges. 

Begin by elevating your head and slowly elevating your chest. Be certain the top is supported by the again, neck, and shoulders as a substitute of pushing it into the mat. Chill out your chest. The shoulders ought to be stored unfastened and arms vast. With palms dealing with up, lengthen your legs straight down. Keep on this place for 2 to a few minutes for optimum advantages.

Seated ahead bend pose:

This place can enhance digestion, present aid from nasal congestion, and scale back anxiousness. Sit on the bottom together with your legs stretched out in entrance of you and your palms resting by your facet. Take a deep breath and draw your again up. Stretch your palms in the direction of the ceiling. Exhale whereas bending ahead to the touch your toes together with your palms. Your abdomen ought to be resting in your thighs and your nostril ought to contact your knees. Keep on this place for 4 or 5 seconds after which return to the place you began.

Bow pose:

This place can enhance the circulation of blood and assist to spice up immunity. It additionally places strain on the digestive tract to assist it to digest meals extra simply. Lie down in your abdomen together with your toes aside and arms by your facet. Bend your knees upwards and raise your heels up in the direction of your behind. Maintain the ankles of each legs together with your palms. Inhale and raise your chest and legs off the bottom. Preserve your higher physique straight and pull your legs as a lot as you’ll be able to. Your physique ought to be tight like a bow. Pause for 4 or 5 breaths after which return to the beginning place.

Workers pose:

This place can improve your immune system and decrease the chance of a number of lifestyle-related ailments. Sit and stretch your legs out in entrance of you. Place your palms flat on the bottom subsequent to your hips. Flex your toes and lengthen out. Have interaction your pelvic, thigh, and calf muscular tissues whereas sustaining a straight again and legs. Then calm down your shoulders and maintain your eyes ahead. Maintain this place for as much as a minute.

Baby pose:

This place can launch rigidity out of your decrease again, scale back stress and fatigue, and increase your immunity. Kneel on the bottom together with your toes collectively and knees barely aside. Place your palms in your thighs. Exhale and decrease your torso. Your abdomen ought to be resting in your thighs and your head ought to contact the mat between your knees. Stretch your palms in entrance of you down to the touch the mat. Pause, inhale, after which come again to the beginning place.

Corpse pose:

This place can assist you to breathe higher and calm your thoughts. Lie comfortably in your again together with your palms and legs stretched out. Shut your eyes and inhale slowly by means of your nostrils. Exhale and suppose your physique right into a relaxed state. Keep this place for ten minutes.

Cobra pose:

This place can open your lungs, strengthen your backbone, and improve your vitality. It might additionally assist to scale back the load in your immune system. Lie in your abdomen together with your toes shut to one another and palms stretched out overhead. Be part of each your legs and relaxation your brow on the bottom. Deliver your palms beneath your shoulders with the palms resting by the facet of your chest whereas protecting your elbows near the physique. Inhale and gently raise the higher half of your physique. Exhale and pause for 4 to 5 seconds earlier than coming again to a traditional pose.

* A model of this text seems in print within the 2 March, 2023 version of Al-Ahram Weekly

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