Hatha 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

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yoga exercise benefits abs

  1. Lay flat on your back, legs extended on the floor, relaxed

  2. bend your right leg, bring it to your chest, hold it and breathe.


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  3. When ready, extend your right leg upward, hold it and breathe

  4. to complete, allow the straight right leg to slowly come to the floor.

  5. Repeat. Switch legs, perform knee to chest, Pavanmuktasana with the left leg and hamstring stretch, repeating several times.



Related Yoga Exercises

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Half Moon Pose -- Ardha-Chandrasana

yoga exercise benefits balancing

  1. start in a kneeling position, knees and hands on the floor

  2. bend and move one leg between your hands. Knee above your ankle

  3. extend the other leg back, toes touching the floor

  4. breathe deeply, lengthening your back, neck, and extended leg. Breathe

  5. when ready, push up and balance with your arm and leg into Half Moon Pose

  6. turn your head and face the sky to naturally open up the torso

  7. breathe into the core of your body, the area just below your navel -- your center of gravity and balance

  8. with every exhalation, have a sense of your energy flowing out of your head, hands, and feet

  9. hold the pose for as long as you desire, breathing in and out deeply

  10. when ready, exhale down back into runners pose, then relax.

  11. repeat the steps for the other side.


Cat Pose -- Marjariasana

yoga exercise benefits cat pose

  1. start on all fours - knee's and hands on the floor

  2. place the flats of your feet on the floor or curl your toes under

  3. Inhale, lift the sacrum and head up, stretching the back.

  4. Hold the move for a couple of seconds, feeling the stretch on the front of your body

  5. Exhale, contract your abs, arching your back, bringing your sacrum and head toward each other.

  6. Repeat several times, inhaling and exhaling as you move the spine.


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Therapeutic Yoga Exercise Benefits

These asana's 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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