Yes, we have harped about how Yoga helps with our mental faculties. And, we have reiterated about how Yoga tones up our body. However, beyond these scopes of our mind and body, Yoga remarkably works well as ‘naturalized’ forms of treatment and cure. So, from treating your mid day blues to protecting you from cold and flu, we have salvaged some Yoga poses that specifically cater to such daily tasks of health mitigation.
1. Hero Pose for shin splint
A complete kneeling pose, this knee joint enhancing and shin splint curing posture requires you to move your heels alongside your buttocks, while your ankles are used as support upon the ground. Now, with your knees touching each other, the ideal situation is to place your butt region upon the floor (like sitting) between your legs. However, some may experience difficulty in doing this. So, they can use an external support for sitting, which can be placed between their legs.
2. Tree Pose for treating your blues
A classic standing pose, this posture is nigh perfect for that refined essence of balance and concentration. While standing firmly, you need to shift the weight of your body to your right leg (which acts as the only support), while the sole of your left foot rests upon your right thigh at a perpendicular. One can also rest the left sole upon the right calf, but care should be taken not to rest it upon the knee. The effect of the exercise directly results in toning and developing the side of your abs.
3. V pose for trouncing your sugar cravings
A pretty simple meditative pose, this posture requires you to sit relaxingly (yet firmly) with your legs crossed, while you raise your arms with an obtuse angle to form a V shape with your body. Now, you need to relax your shoulders and reach out to your fingertips, with some heavy sets of breathing. A session of around 3 minutes will do wonders in mitigating your ‘greedy’ sugar cravings.
4. Alternate breathing for treating cold and flu
Another simplistic exercise, this pose requires you to sit straight with crossed legs. Then you need to place your right middle and index finger inside your right palm region. Now, you raise your right arm to put your ‘ring’ finger upon your left nostril, and then inhale for 4 counts. After that you close both your nostrils by putting your thumb upon your right nostril, and count up to 4 times. Finally, you free up your left nostril and let air for up to 4 counts. This alternate pattern has to be repeated for 5 times.
5. Side lying for curing your sleepless nights
The Side lying Yoga Pose entails exactly what the name suggests – to lie down comfortably on any side. Pretty helpful during the latter stages of pregnancy (which limits mobility) and curing your sleepless nights, we can lie down and keep a soft pillow in between our legs. Now, while we are aligned in a particular way, a series of breathing exercises can help in easy flexing and relaxing of body and pelvic muscles.
