Feeling Lazy? Try these 4 Yoga Poses that You Can Do in Bed
July 27, 2017
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Are you feeling lethargic? Do you hate stepping out for your bed to practice any physical activity? Or perhaps you can’t find enough time to practice yoga in your busy schedule?
If you answer ‘yes!’ to any of the above, this article may just get you to practice yoga, no matter how lazy you may be feeling.
Yoga is a practice that calms the state of mind and maintains physical health. It isn’t simply an exercise. Yoga is all about deep breaths, twisting, and turning your body.
It releases the tension that has been created between muscles and relaxes the entire body painlessly. It has powers to fight against diseases, manages weight, boosts your confidence and mood, relieves stress and many more health benefits.
Though you might be aware of oodles of benefits from practicing yoga, you often find that your laziness simply doesn’t allow you to get out of bed.
I understand how overwhelming working out may seem, which is why I have lined up a few yoga poses that can be practiced even without stepping out of your bed:
1. Child’s Pose
Being one of the easiest yoga poses, child pose doesn’t require any sort of effort or special care. It is as simple as hugging. On the same side, it is effective enough for your body and mind.
Child’s pose is a beginner’s yoga pose that can be done in complete relaxation. It is also termed as Balasana. Kneel on your bed in such a way that your hips are folded and aligned with your legs to touch the feet. Roll your torso and bring forward your shoulders and hands in front of you.
Holding this pose for a few seconds will work wonders for your body. Moreover, you can also attempt wide child’s pose by widening your knees.
This pose extensively calms your mind, relieves back pain, aids digestion, opens up your hips and reminds you that relaxation can also bring in goodness to your health.
2. Reclining Goddess Pose
In order to practice this pose, you don’t need to set your annoying alarm. Simply resting with a few modifications would make you attain this pose without any hassle.
Lie on your back and gently bend your knees in such a way that the soles of your feet touch each other.
When you are able to achieve this pose, indulge yourself in deep breaths. While performing this pose, you can either stretch your hands above your head or simply rest them at your sides.
This pose stretches the hips, groin, knees and thighs. Moreover, it stimulates your heart and improves blood circulation, maintaining sound cardiac health.
READ MORE: 5 Stress-Relieving Yoga Poses.
3. Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose
Before performing this yoga pose, make sure your bed lies beside a wall. You simply need to lie on your back when you are on the bed and stretch your legs pointing upwards to the ceiling. While stretching legs, simply take the support of the wall and inhale with hands apart on your sides. Before you relax from this pose, hold it for two minutes.
Turning your hips towards the wall in such a way that the hips are creating a right angle your buttocks is one of the most effective ways to grab benefits from this pose. When you get along with this upside-down relaxing pose, blood circulates upwards and regulates the functioning of your body.
4. Cobra Pose
Lie on your belly and hold your torso backward in such a way that your head pulls up towards the ceiling as if you are kissing it. While holding yourself up from the bed, see to it that your forearms are placed on the bed, elbows underneath your shoulders. When you become comfortable with holding this position, you can even raise your elbows off your bed.
Holding this pose for 5 seconds while taking deep breaths, you are increasing the flexibility of your spine and doing wonders to your hips.
Also known as Bhujangasana, it has the potential to heal complications in the body as it stretches the muscles in the shoulders, chest and abdominals. Moreover, it also improves menstrual irregularities, elevates mood, decreases the stiffness of the lower back, increases flexibility, invigorates the heart and much more.
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