Yoga is a great way of improving your posture. It works out all the muscles in your body and gives you a long, strong, flexible spine. At the same time, it also helps to improve your mental focus, making you feel less stressed and more alert. With the correct props, yoga can also helps you relax and relieves chronic aches and pains. Many poses can help you improve your posture. Here’s a few yoga poses that will help you practice good posture:
Chapter Overview
Tadasana
Tadasana, or the Mountain Pose, promotes good posture by strengthening your back muscles and stretching your hamstrings and quadriceps. This is perfect for anyone who spends most of their day sitting down.
When performing this pose, stand straight with your feet hip-width apart, parallel to each other. Then, lift your chest up and pull your shoulders back down. Try to straighten and broaden your upper back by extending your arms behind you, palms facing upwards.
Corpse Pose
This is a yoga pose named ‘Corpse Pose.’ It is also called Savasana. In this posture, the whole body becomes flat. The arms are by the side of the body. The legs are also completely balanced with each other. The whole person looks like a corpse. This yoga posture is really relaxing for the body.
There are many health benefits of this pose. This has been associated with calming the brain, relaxing the muscles, and reducing stress levels on the mind and the nervous system. It also helps in balancing the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in the body.
These days, we all need a lot of relaxation and peace to live a healthy life. However, we may have high levels of stress due to our daily lives, work situations, and so on. This pose can be beneficial for us in eliminating all that stress from our minds and muscles.
Marjaryasana
The pose `Marjaryasana` is the best yoga pose for breathing, especially when combined with pranayama techniques. It helps to stimulate the respiratory tract, especially the ‘carotid bodies.’ Repeating this pose 5-10 times in a row will kill your stress, and you’ll feel better.
Warrior 1
The Warrior Pose: This pose increases your stretch through your chest and shoulders while helping to build core strength and balance. Start by standing tall in a mountain pose, then step your right foot back into a lunge, lowering your knee until it’s aligned with your ankle. Your front heel will stay planted on the floor during this pose. Aim to have a neutral spine with shoulders over hips and hips over knees. From here, extend your arms directly out in front of you until they’re parallel to the floor, palms facing down toward the mat.
Warrior 3
Start in warrior one pose. Bring the right arm overhead while reaching with the left arm to the l
Chair Pose
“Chair Pose,” which is similar to “Warrior 2,” strengthens the quadriceps, glutes, and shoulders while also stretching your chest and hips. “Chair Pose” also improves balance and core strength.
Eagle Pose
This asana opens up your hips and Drishti to the sky. You will enjoy it more if you do it after Sun Salutation. To perform, stand in mountain pose. Fold one leg behind you and place the other in front of you. Take your arms above your head and grab your hands, interlocking your fingers. Look at the sky with your eyes. Release and return to mountain pose