Everyone has heard of posture these days, however maybe some are not so aware whether they have good posture or how to correct it. This is where yoga can help you to become more aware of your posture both in your daily life and in your yoga practice.
I am going to share a few simple pointers that I hope will benefit you, your body and life.
Through Yoga you learn how to hold yourself correctly. You will discover how standing properly can make you look taller and slimmer. Yoga postures like the Tree, Vrksasana and Mountain, Tadasana promote balance and you require awareness and strength to hold the pose and this will give you better posture straight away.
So let's look at some key tips to help you sit or stand correctly that you can use in your …show more content…
Be aware of your shoulders, the idea is to draw the shoulder back and down, so when in a lunge posture, you can come up onto your finger tips, which opens the heart are and then draw the shoulders back. When in any postures when you are raising your arms, try to draw the shoulders down and back even thought the arms are raised. The tendency for these is to raise the arms and the shoulders, you will work the shoulders more by drawing then back into a natural alignment.
In downward facing dog, Adho Mukha Svanasana, you use every part of your palm and fingers and thumb to ground the hands, pushing away from the wrists up through the arms you rotate your shoulders outwards and away from the ears. Then relax your neck and head as you draw the abdomen in at your core creating a neutral spine. Then those sitting bones you spread then high and open so the hips are high and the tailbone tucks under slightly, then finally the backs of the legs are being eased back so that the heels come towards the
I am going to share a few simple pointers that I hope will benefit you, your body and life.
Through Yoga you learn how to hold yourself correctly. You will discover how standing properly can make you look taller and slimmer. Yoga postures like the Tree, Vrksasana and Mountain, Tadasana promote balance and you require awareness and strength to hold the pose and this will give you better posture straight away.
So let's look at some key tips to help you sit or stand correctly that you can use in your …show more content…
Be aware of your shoulders, the idea is to draw the shoulder back and down, so when in a lunge posture, you can come up onto your finger tips, which opens the heart are and then draw the shoulders back. When in any postures when you are raising your arms, try to draw the shoulders down and back even thought the arms are raised. The tendency for these is to raise the arms and the shoulders, you will work the shoulders more by drawing then back into a natural alignment.
In downward facing dog, Adho Mukha Svanasana, you use every part of your palm and fingers and thumb to ground the hands, pushing away from the wrists up through the arms you rotate your shoulders outwards and away from the ears. Then relax your neck and head as you draw the abdomen in at your core creating a neutral spine. Then those sitting bones you spread then high and open so the hips are high and the tailbone tucks under slightly, then finally the backs of the legs are being eased back so that the heels come towards the