The benefits of body yoga
1, keep fit, warm up, improve immunity and prevent colds.
2. Practicing yoga can burn calories and help maintain a healthy body shape.
3, practicing yoga can promote blood circulation, achieve the effect of warming hands and feet, and prevent cold hands and feet.
4. Yoga can stimulate our glands, regulate endocrine, increase people's heat-producing ability, help us control our appetite better and prevent our body from getting fat by squeezing in various postures such as bending forward, leaning backward and twisting left and right.
5. Sticking to regular yoga practice can enhance the adaptability of the body to cold, improve the resistance to various viruses and reduce the occurrence of diseases.
What are the actions of body yoga?
1, mobile meditation
Function: Warm joints and muscles.
A. Stand with your feet together, with your toes forward and your knees slightly bent. The arms droop naturally and the palms are inward. Hold your chest and move your shoulders back and forth. Look straight ahead and take a deep breath for a minute.
B. Inhale, raise your arms and palms above your head. Exhale, bend forward, open your arms and touch your calves, feet or floor. Hold on 15 second. Inhale, lift your body up and raise your arms above your head; Exhale and return your arms to your sides. Repeat action b three times.
2. Warrior II
Function: strengthen and stretch legs, hips, abdomen and arms.
Feet apart, right foot pointing to one side, left foot forward, slightly inward hook. Keep your body forward. Exhale and bend your right knee. Inhale and raise your arms to your sides. Turn your head to the right and hold 15 to 30 seconds.
3. Warrior's Second Style and Side Corner Style
Function: strengthen and stretch legs, hips, abdomen and arms.
Starting from the second pose of the soldier, exhale, put the right forearm on the right thigh and raise the left arm above the head. Keep your head in the air for 15 to 30 seconds. Inhale and return to the second pose of the soldier. Exhale, change the left leg below, and repeat the warrior 2 and side angle pose on the left side.
4. Tree style
Function: improve balance ability; Strong feet, legs, hips and abdomen.
Stand with your feet together and your toes forward. The sole of the right foot is placed on the inner side of the thigh, calf or ankle of the left leg, and the toe of the right foot is gently placed on the floor. Put your hands together, put them on your chest, and then raise them straight up. Hold on 15 second.
When your arms are raised above your head, inhale and exhale evenly, and keep your palms closed (or put your hands on your chest). Hold on 15 to 30 seconds. Balance your right leg. Repeat.
5. Sphinx and Children's Style
Function: improve posture. Strengthen and stretch the curves of the back, chest and arms.
A. Sphinx: Lying on the yoga mat, legs together, elbows bent at both sides of the body, forearms forward, fingers forward. Inhale, palms down, forearms down, and hold your head up and chest out. Keep your neck straight and your elbows directly below your shoulders. Hold on 15 to 30 seconds. Exhale to relax and restore posture. Say it again.
B. children's posture: put your hands under your shoulders. Up, bend your knees, sit back with your heels, lower your chest to your thighs, and head forward toward the ground. Keep your arms stretched forward. Hold for 30 to 60 seconds.
Step 6 sit down and turn around
Function: improve flexibility and relax spine and buttocks.
Sit cross-legged, arms extended, fingertips on the yoga mats at both sides of your body. Inhale, stretch your spine, and raise your arms above your head. Exhale, slowly turn your body to the right, put your left hand down, put it on the outside of your right leg and thigh, and put your right hand behind your back. Look into the distance along the right shoulder. Hold on 15 to 30 seconds.
Every inhalation will stretch the spine, and every exhalation will turn a little bigger. When you do some exhalations, return to the center position, then repeat and turn left.
7. Inverted L shape
Function: improve blood circulation, restore the vitality of legs and feet, and relieve cramps.
Put a pillow or two beside the bed. Carefully put your hips on the pillow and lean your legs against the wall. Open your feet for 30 cm and relax. Put your arms flat at your sides, at an angle, with your palms up. The hips should be slightly higher than the chest (if not, replace the pillow. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and hold on for a minute.
Caution: Do not do this during menstruation, or when you have high blood pressure, glaucoma or neck injury.
8. Oblique angle type
Function: Relieve fatigue and dysmenorrhea.
Sit on the yoga mat with your knees bent and your feet flat. Place the narrow side of one or two pillows 2.5 cm behind the coccyx, and put two pillows below the knees on both sides. Spread your knees to both sides, put your feet together, and put your knees on the pillows on both sides.
With your hands as support, lie back until your spine and head are on the pillow behind your back. Put your arms flat at your sides, at an angle, with your palms up. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and hold on for a minute.
Matters needing attention in body yoga
1. Don't eat too much food for 2-3 hours before and after practicing yoga.
2. Wear loose clothes.
3. What yoga needs most is meditation and breathing adjustment.
Characteristics of body yoga
1, can eliminate fatigue and calm the mind. Keep people comfortable and quiet, and fully enjoy life.
2, can maintain posture balance. Yoga teachers believe that many diseases of human body, such as cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis, are caused by incorrect posture and disorder. Through practice, every facet joint, spine, muscle, ligament and blood vessel can be in good condition.
3. It can purify blood, regulate body weight, effectively eliminate fat and maintain a balanced diet.
4. Stimulate endocrine system and maintain endocrine balance.