This post is about Working Women (Is there any other kind?) and the benefits of having a regular Yoga practice.
Balancing work and family is a challenge for every working woman. When you spend all your time trying to juggle your responsibilities, it is not easy to find any time for yourself. You can easily get stressed and overwhelmed.
Benefits of Yoga for the Working Woman
Keep feet 1 ft. apart, turn right leg out, spread hands at shoulder level, inhale deeply , as you exhale, bend to your right side and take left hand towards sky, hold posture for 6 breaths. Repeat with left leg.
Cow-Face Posture / Gomukhasana :
This posture helps in stretching out the legs, ankles and knees after long hours of sitting in an office chair. Start by sitting on your ankles, stretch out the spine at the back, breathe deeply for 5 - 6 breaths. Now, stretch both hands in front, cross right hand over left hand and intertwine hands to hold fingers and stretch deeply into the upper parts of both your shoulders. Hold this posture for 5 -6 breaths.
Bridge Posture / Setubandhasana :
This posture is one of the most proven to reduce anxiety, relax the lower back muscles and bring a state of wellness and balance to the Thyroid gland.
Lie on your back, bend your legs, place feet near your hips, rest hands by the sides of your body, as you inhale, slowly raise your hips towards the sky, as you exhale, release them down to the ground. Repeat this 6 times, breathing deeply. Once your body is comfortable with this movement, you can hold the pose for 10 breaths.
Balancing work and family is a challenge for every working woman. When you spend all your time trying to juggle your responsibilities, it is not easy to find any time for yourself. You can easily get stressed and overwhelmed.
If you have been feeling very stressful lately, perhaps a good yoga session can help you relax.
There are a lot of benefits of doing yoga.
A half an hour of yoga every morning definitely will be able to make you feel much better.
There are a lot of benefits of doing yoga.
A half an hour of yoga every morning definitely will be able to make you feel much better.
Benefits of Yoga for the Working Woman
There are many benefits of yoga for working women. Lets discuss some of them in more detail.
Fitness and Weight Loss
If you want to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, yoga is the most holistic fitness discipline that can help you do that. Yoga poses, when executed properly, can help you reach the fitness levels you desire. The various poses are designed to work on specific parts of your body.
Yoga has a lot of physiological benefits as well. It can help you strengthen your bones, tone your muscles, improve joint flexibility, provide greater range of motion, enhance your sense of balance, and protect your body against physical stress as well as everyday injuries.
Yoga has a lot of physiological benefits as well. It can help you strengthen your bones, tone your muscles, improve joint flexibility, provide greater range of motion, enhance your sense of balance, and protect your body against physical stress as well as everyday injuries.
Stress Reduction
With the help of yoga, especially meditation and deep breathing, you can effectively reduce your stress levels and improve your overall lifestyle. You can regulate your body’s responses to stress by regulating stress hormones and lowering your blood pressure. When you decrease your overall stress, it can make a huge impact on the quality of your life.
When you perform yoga regularly, your brain produces more endorphins which keep you happier and more cheerful. When you are happy, everyone around you is also happy :)
When you perform yoga regularly, your brain produces more endorphins which keep you happier and more cheerful. When you are happy, everyone around you is also happy :)
Immunity Boost and Pain Management
Regular yoga practice relaxes body and mind, but with that it also helps you strengthen your body from within. By boosting your immunity, yoga can help you remain fit and disease free.
Yoga can also be used to improve pain management. If you have recently suffered a painful injury or suffer from a degenerative disease, yoga can help reduce and manage your pain.
Yoga can also be used to improve pain management. If you have recently suffered a painful injury or suffer from a degenerative disease, yoga can help reduce and manage your pain.
Useful Poses
Some of the most useful poses include relaxing poses such as Corpse Pose (Savasana).
You can also try out other poses such as the Tadasana, Triangle Pose (Trikonasana), Cow Face Pose (Gowmukhasana), and the Bridge Pose (Setubandhasana).
I have given a brief description of these postures here, but do learn them from a Yoga therapist or an Instructor for the best alignment suited to your body.
Find 20 minutes either in the morning or in the evening, when your distractions are less.
Wear comfortable clothing and try to keep your cell phone on mute :)
You can start your practice by relaxing your body and breath consciously and bringing your awareness to the present moment.
Simple Standing Posture / Tadasana with hands extended overhead:
This posture gently stretches the muscles at the back, at the legs and across the shoulders.
Stand with your legs hip-width apart, take both head above your head, join palms gently, start breathing deeply and allow the muscles at the back to open up, hold the posture for 8 - 10 breaths.
You can also try out other poses such as the Tadasana, Triangle Pose (Trikonasana), Cow Face Pose (Gowmukhasana), and the Bridge Pose (Setubandhasana).
I have given a brief description of these postures here, but do learn them from a Yoga therapist or an Instructor for the best alignment suited to your body.
Find 20 minutes either in the morning or in the evening, when your distractions are less.
Wear comfortable clothing and try to keep your cell phone on mute :)
You can start your practice by relaxing your body and breath consciously and bringing your awareness to the present moment.
Simple Standing Posture / Tadasana with hands extended overhead:
This posture gently stretches the muscles at the back, at the legs and across the shoulders.
Stand with your legs hip-width apart, take both head above your head, join palms gently, start breathing deeply and allow the muscles at the back to open up, hold the posture for 8 - 10 breaths.
Triangle Pose / Trikonasana:
This pose is great for reducing physical stress, especially back and neck stress. It can help you deal with and manage pain more effectively as well. If you experience pain and fatigue due to sitting for long hours, you can use this pose to work flexibility into your muscles. Keep feet 1 ft. apart, turn right leg out, spread hands at shoulder level, inhale deeply , as you exhale, bend to your right side and take left hand towards sky, hold posture for 6 breaths. Repeat with left leg.
This posture helps in stretching out the legs, ankles and knees after long hours of sitting in an office chair. Start by sitting on your ankles, stretch out the spine at the back, breathe deeply for 5 - 6 breaths. Now, stretch both hands in front, cross right hand over left hand and intertwine hands to hold fingers and stretch deeply into the upper parts of both your shoulders. Hold this posture for 5 -6 breaths.
Bridge Posture / Setubandhasana :
This posture is one of the most proven to reduce anxiety, relax the lower back muscles and bring a state of wellness and balance to the Thyroid gland.
Lie on your back, bend your legs, place feet near your hips, rest hands by the sides of your body, as you inhale, slowly raise your hips towards the sky, as you exhale, release them down to the ground. Repeat this 6 times, breathing deeply. Once your body is comfortable with this movement, you can hold the pose for 10 breaths.
Supine Leg Lifts :
This posture helps in releasing lower back and hip tension. When we sit for long hours, the hip muscles tend to tighten up and there's a sharp pain in the right hip or left hip when we move or climb stairs.
Lie on your back, fold your legs and bring both knees into your chest. keep hands relaxed at the sides of your body. As you inhale, slowly extend right leg towards sky, as you exhale, bring it back down. Repeat this 6 times. Then repeat with left leg.
Corpse Pose /Shavasana:
This is a relaxing pose that helps you de-stress your body for better muscle function.
All you have to do is to perform this pose two times a day for 10 minutes.
Lie down on your back, bring your body to a comfortable position. Slowly relax all the different muscle groups and relax your breathing to a gentle rhythm. You can play any soft music if you like.
I usually play 'OM' vibrations at this time for my students.
Try to remain calm, let go of all the thoughts which keep arising and let yourself just 'be'....
These are some of the postures you could try to come back to a state of better harmony and balance in the midst of your busy life.
I hope this post has given you an insight into the myriad benefits of Yoga practice.
Do try out a class;
It might really talk to your inner self!!
Namaste,
Lets meet to do all these postures..
Asha
All images are copyright protected.
All you have to do is to perform this pose two times a day for 10 minutes.
Lie down on your back, bring your body to a comfortable position. Slowly relax all the different muscle groups and relax your breathing to a gentle rhythm. You can play any soft music if you like.
I usually play 'OM' vibrations at this time for my students.
Try to remain calm, let go of all the thoughts which keep arising and let yourself just 'be'....
These are some of the postures you could try to come back to a state of better harmony and balance in the midst of your busy life.
I hope this post has given you an insight into the myriad benefits of Yoga practice.
Do try out a class;
It might really talk to your inner self!!
Namaste,
Lets meet to do all these postures..
Asha
All images are copyright protected.
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