Rubber Yoga Mat

Yoga can help manage anxiety, arthritis, asthma, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, heart disease, menopausal symptoms, migraines, multiple sclerosis, and osteoporosis.

And yoga is a slow-moving exercise that can help you to create awareness necessary to be in tune with your body. All that matters is that you do your personal best. If you can’t touch your knees at first, no problem: Postures can be modified to accommodate your current level.

And yoga can help us in so many ways. Recently, when Cait was having a mild asthma attack, a friend showed her a special yoga breathing technique that almost miraculously stopped the attack in its tracks. Who knew yoga could be good for asthma? And that’s just the beginning.

Practicing it is a beautiful way to help deal with Western cultural problems of incorrect posture, aggressive lifestyles, job stress, demanding family lives, overeating and indigestion, and stiff muscles and joints.

So many benefits of yoga include increased flexibility, clarity of thought, and improved muscle tone and strength, as well as improved balance, coordination, concentration, and oxygen intake.  Rubber yoga mat.

1.       Cobra Pose

This pose can strength back muscles and shoulders. It can help relieve stress.

DO LIKE THIS : Lying on your belly, draw your legs together “like the powerful tail of a reptile,” says Rodney, as you lengthen your legs vigorously from your pelvis to the tips of your toes. With your palms face-down next to the center of your ribcage and your elbows kept close to your sides, push down evenly with your hands and lift your chest, then belly, then pelvis off the floor. Keep your shoulders down away from your ears. Your hands and the lower part of your legs, from your lower thighs down to the tops of your feet should be the only parts of your body touching the floor. Arc your head back and look up toward the sky as you consciously lift your chest.

Focus on lengthening and opening up your spine. Most of the movement is from the chest, with the back and legs supporting the arching of your spine. “Don’t force it,” Rodney adds. “Be willing to spend time searching for the ease and articulation of your spine.”

2. Warrior

This yoga pose can develops strength, endurance, and discipline in the body and the mind.

DO LIKE THIS: Begin in Mountain Pose. Step your feet about three to four feet apart. Turn your right foot and knee outward from the top of your thigh. Your middle toe, ankle, kneecap, and center hip should be in a straight line. Turn your left foot in at a 45-degree angle.

Raise your arms to shoulder height, keeping your shoulders down, your spine extended, and your legs strong. Bend your right knee at a 90-degree angle, centering it over your middle toe. Keep your hipbones level, your spine long, and your weight evenly distributed between your legs. Don’t lean forward over your bent knee. Press into your forward heel and lengthen your spine up from your pelvis. Keep your shoulders down (don’t hunch them).Breathe for 5 to 10 evenly paced breaths.

3. Triangle Pose

This yoga pose can strength and tones the legs, hips and abs; relieves stiffness in the spine.

DO LIKE THIS: Begin in Mountain Pose. Step your feet three to four feet apart. Turn your right foot and knee outward from the top of your thigh. Turn your left foot in at a 45-degree angle and distribute your weight evenly across both legs. Inhale and raise your arms to shoulder height. Keep your shoulders down and stretch out from your core into your fingertips.

Exhale and extend your side body out over your right leg as you move your hips toward your back foot. Place your right hand on the floor next to your right foot, or on a yoga brick. Keep your back leg strongly rooted to the earth. Straighten your left arm overhead and look up toward your left hand. Breathe for 5 to 10 long, evenly paced breaths.