Yoga :A Powerful Way To Improve Your Flexibility

Yoga is very important for health and research has proven that a regular yoga practice can significantly improve your physical, mental, and spiritual health, including flexibility, fitness, and spinal mobility.

Flexibility could easily be described as its curse and blessing. It is a vital component of fitness, which is often overlooked. Maintaining your muscles is important for keeping everyday activities easy and doable – There are many ways to improve flexibility. Like Cat-Cow Pose, Extended side angle pose.

1.Cat-Cow Pose:-

This can be your warm-up exercise. Move into a tabletop position with your wrists below your shoulders and your knees below your hips. This yoga is such an effective and powerful way to improve your flexibility

With an inhale, look up and arch your back evenly, lengthening from the pubic bone to the sternum. When you exhale, round the back completely, by curling your tailbone in, as well as your chin to your chest, which stretches the back of the neck.

2.Extended side angle pose:-

This pose is designed to work on the sides of the waist and strengthen the legs, stretch the hips, hamstrings, calves, shoulders, chest, and spine. It also opens up the lungs, improves digestion, and helps relieve stress.

Start stepping by your feet one leg-length apart and bending down and put your right hand down on your ankle, shin, knee, or the floor while stretching your left hand to the sky, keeping a straight line from the right hand to the left. Repeat on the opposite side.

3.Eye of the needle pose:-

This pose offers a wonderful way to stretch the hip flexors gently at first and then more deeply as flexibility becomes more available. If you are looking for more intensity. Lie on your back with your knees bent and the soles of your feet on the floor and Place your right ankle on the top of your left thigh, opening your right knee to the right. lift your left foot off the floor and start to bring your left thigh towards your chest. Reach your right hand through the gap between your legs to clasp your hands around the back of your left thigh and Draw your left knee closer to your chest while making sure that your sacrum stays anchored to the floor. You can also use your right elbow to nudge your right knee further away from your chest and Keep both feet active throughout and After five to ten breaths, switch legs.

4.Bow Pose 

Bow pose improves the flexibility of the back as a whole…helps to open the lungs, vertebrae and hip flexors, which are often very tight in athletes. This gives athletes greater spinal flexibility and rotation with less strain”.This is a wonderful asana to begin practicing

Firstly you inhale, gently squeeze your shoulder blades back toward each other and progress by lifting your chest, lift your legs off the floor and press your feet together and keep your legs active and also bend your elbows squeezing them toward each.

5.King Dancer Pose:-

King Dancer Pose is a deep stretch for your whole body and helps to build suppleness not only in your spine but also in your shoulders and hamstrings.

Posture improvements can be seen from practicing the pose regularly, so it’s perfect if you find yourself stuck behind a desk all day.

It opens the shoulders, chest, and hips, as it stretches and strengthens the thighs, ankles, and abdomen. This pose improves greater flexibility in your spine, shoulders, and hamstrings. It also stretches the entire front of the body, while strengthening the back muscles, which improves posture

Shift your weight onto your left foot and bring your right heel toward your right buttock. Reach your right hand down and clasp your right foot’s inner ankle. You can loop a strap around the top of your right foot and then hold onto the strap with your right hand. Draw your knees together.

Reach your left arm overhead, pointing your fingertips toward the ceiling and facing your palm to the right. Make sure your left kneecap and toes continue to point directly forward.

6.Butterfly Pose:-

This Pose creates flexibility in the groin, hip region and helps your body enjoy a deep stretch.

Firstly holding your legs at the ankles, move your thighs up and down, just like the wings of a butterfly and remember that the closer your legs are to your pelvis the greater the benefit of this pose.  Do this as many times as you can do as much as you can. This yoga is such an effective and powerful way to improve your flexibility.