Yoga in Quarantine! To Relax your Mind and Tone up your Body
Time to get in shape! Yes, you have read it right. Worried about the coronavirus outbreak? Now is the time when being an optimist can do wonders. Have you ever heard about the term “Law of Attraction”? It is the ability to attract into our lives whatever we are focusing on. Staying at home and taking all the precautionary steps is the only way to deal with the pandemic. During this quarantine period, we can focus and analyse ourselves. Through yoga we can relax our mind, gain flexibility and transform our body to the desired shape.
Yoga started as a means to attain enlightenment, to achieve harmony between heart and soul. Later, it was discovered to cure many diseases like diabetes, anxiety, high blood pressure and chronic pains.
The word ‘Yoga’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Yuj’, meaning to join or to unite. According to Yogic scriptures the practice to Yoga leads to the union of individual consciousness with universal consciousness, indicating a perfect harmony between mind, body, man and nature.
Yoga helps us relax, unwind and de-stress. Whenever you have to loosen up in the wake of a difficult day, attempt a couple of our preferred yoga reversals, forward folds and leaning back postures to help.
1. Downward-Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) - An essential posture in numerous styles of yoga, down facing dog is the entire package. It protects the shoulders, arms and legs it extends out the spine and reduces upper, center and low back pain. It additionally helps create more blood flow in the body, profiting the circulatory and lymphatic frameworks and battling the impacts of gravity on the body.
How to do it: Starting from a tabletop position with your shoulders straight forwardly over your wrists and your hips over your knees, twist your toes under and lift your hips upward. Keep your spine level and expand the backs of the legs just to the extent body permits. Spread your fingers wide and look at your feet.
2. Garland Pose (Malasana) – We invest a ton of energy sitting with the hips at 90 degrees. After some time, this can make a large group of issues because of restricted movements for your joints. Garland pose helps open the hips and internal thighs and protrect out the spine. It encourages you to keep your pelvic and hip joints solid.
How to do it: Start with your feet more extensive than hip-width separated and turn your toes out. Keep your look forward and your spine straight as you push your hips back and drop down as though into a seat. The objective is to bring the hips as low as you can without adjusting the spine. Carry your hands to supplication position at mid-chest and drive into the inward knees with your elbows, further opening your hips.
3. Plank Pose - Plank is probably the most ideal approaches to build core strength quality. It also strengthens the wrists, arms, shoulders and quadriceps.
How to do it: Stand in descending position. Move forward onto the wads of your feet and lower your hips so your shoulders come straightforwardly over your wrists and your hips are in accordance with the highest point of your head and shoulders. Keep your muscular strength contracted and your leg muscles locked in.
4. Forward Bend (Uttanasana) - Forward bends are an extraordinary counter to slouching over PCs throughout the day. Also, they're incredible for when you don't have a mat or a great deal of room. Other than relaxing the sensory system, forward bend loosen up the spine, glutes and hamstrings and fortify the quadriceps and knees.
How to do it: Stand with your feet hip-separation separated. Overlay forward at the hips, just going the extent that your hamstrings permit. Keep your knees bowed only a little and lay your stomach on your thighs. Catching the hands behind the back and carrying them overhead to expand portability in the shoulders.
5. Child’s Pose (Balasana) - Balasana is a go-to pose for resting, reestablishing and controlling the group of pressure - both physical and mental. It likewise extends the hips, knees, lower legs, thighs and lower back and loosens up the spine, shoulders and neck.
How to do it: Begin bowing on your yoga mat. Keep your knees contacting or open them somewhat more extensive than your hips. Keeping the knees together offers more help and is prescribed for individuals with less adaptability. Lower your butt onto your heels and your middle down toward the floor, laying your forehead on the mat. Broaden your arms before you, palms looking up to heighten the stretch, or expand your arms behind you with your palms resting. Beginners who need adaptability in the knees and hips, this yogasana is suggested.
Yoga has the ability to control a person's brain, body and soul. It unites physical and mental controls to accomplish a serene body and brain; it oversees pressure and uneasiness and keeps you unwinding. It additionally helps in expanding adaptability, muscle quality and body tone. Thus, yoga should be practiced every day for effective results.
