Yoga Exercise Benefits
Strengthening Core Muscles
Hatha yoga exercise benefits...
- helps to correct abdominal issues such as constipation
- eliminates fat around the abdomen and hips
- stretches and strengthens low back, gluteal, and hamstrings
Scroll to the end for details on therapeutic hatha yoga.
- Lay flat on your back, legs extended on the floor, relaxed
- bend your right leg, bring it to your chest, hold it and breathe.
- When ready, extend your right leg upward, hold it and breathe
- to complete, allow the straight right leg to slowly come to the floor.
- Repeat. Switch legs, perform knee to chest, Pavanmuktasana with the left leg and hamstring stretch, repeating several times.
Related Hatha Yoga Exercises
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Half Moon Pose - Ardha-Chandrasana
- start in a kneeling position, knees and hands on the floor
- bend and move one leg between your hands. Knee above your ankle
- extend the other leg back, toes touching the floor
- breathe deeply, lengthening your back, neck, and extended leg. Breathe
- when ready, push up and balance with your arm and leg into Half Moon Pose
- turn your head and face the sky to naturally open up the torso
- breathe into the core of your body, the area just below your navel -- your center of gravity and balance
- with every exhalation, have a sense of your energy flowing out of your head, hands, and feet
- hold the pose for as long as you desire, breathing in and out deeply
- when ready, exhale down back into runners pose, then relax.
- repeat the steps for the other side.
Cat Pose -- Marjariasana
- start on all fours - knee's and hands on the floor
- place the flats of your feet on the floor or curl your toes under
- Inhale, lift the sacrum and head up, stretching the back.
- Hold the move for a couple of seconds, feeling the stretch on the front of your body
- Exhale, contract your abs, arching your back, bringing your sacrum and head toward each other.
- Repeat several times, inhaling and exhaling as you move the spine.
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Therapeutic Hatha Yoga Exercise Benefits
These yoga moves, excercises and massage therapy techniques have the reputation for helping in certain disorders and illnesses. They are never a substitute for medical attention, though they may aid in the correction of some disorders.
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