10 Best Yoga Poses for Healthy Body

Yoga is originated from ancient India which is a spiritual and oldest physical practice. It focuses on healing our body and mind. It promotes well-being of physical and mental health. Yoga comes in endless types and every yoga provides a different benefit to our body. In this article, we are going to learn about best yoga poses which will make our body healthy and maintain it.

10 Yoga Poses & Asanas to do Everyday

Tree Pose

This pose is also known as “Vrikshasana’’. Tree pose is all about balancing your body. We need a lot of concentration while performing this pose.

How To Perform Tree Pose?

1. Stand still and your hands in a greeting pose
2. Lift up your one leg and press it to your other legs thigh
3. Look straight and balance your body
4. Maintain the pose for some time. Then switch legs alternately

Benefits of Tree Pose:

1. It helps to build up our body balance
2. It improves our concentration power
3. Gives peace to our mind and body
4. Tree poses stretches our leg muscles and strengthen our legs

Bow Pose

This Yoga pose is also known as “Dhanurasana’’. The Bow Pose is all about bending your back and it’s quite effective in weight loss too. It is a well-stretched pose to make our body flexible.

How To Perform Bow Pose:

1. Lie on stomach and keep your feet apart
2. Bend up your knees with arms holding your feet
3. Slowly lift up your face and chest up
4. Hold this pose for some time
5. Then release and lie down slowly

Benefits of Bow Pose:

1. This pose helps to reduce belly fat
2. This also pose helps in relieving back pain
3. Gives a good stretch to your chest, shoulder, hip muscles
4. It enhances our blood circulation
5. Improves our digestive system

Chair Pose

This pose is quite challenging pose as we must imagine that we are sitting on chair. It is a powerful and intense yoga which burns fat fast in thighs, hips, calves.

How To Perform Chair Pose:

1. It tones our leg muscles
2. It helps to stretch shoulders and chest
3. Maintains body balance effectively
4. This pose develops strength in back, core, arms

Benefits of Chair Pose

1. It strengths the thighs, ankles, calves
2. It helps to build endurance and body stamina
3. It improves your body balance

Triangle Pose

Triangle pose is also known as “Trikonasana’’ which helps in developing strength to our core, thighs, legs and stretches your muscles.

How To Perform Triangle Pose:

1. Stand straight with your legs wide apart
2. Slowly put your left arm down and touch it to your left leg
3. And keep your right arm up in the air while facing upwards
4. Hold this pose for a while and then switch alternately

Benefits of Triangle Pose:

1. This pose maintains body balance
2. Provides strength to legs, knees, arms, hips
3. It gives relief to our back
4. Enhances flexibility
5. It helps to boost our bone density

Lotus Pose

This pose is a kind of meditation type pose which is gives to relaxation to body and mind. As the name itself says lotus this pose is all about in sitting in an open lotus position.

How To Perform Lotus Pose:

1. Sit on a floor while keeping your body straight
2. Put your right foot on your left thigh, and left foot on right thigh
3. Keep your both hands on the knees
4. Slowly inhale and exhale
5. Stay in this pose till you can

Benefits of Lotus Pose

1. This pose calms your brain and body
2. Relives you from menstrual pain
3. Your body feels energized
4. Stretches knees and ankles

Camel Pose:

This pose is also known as “Purasana’’ in which a deep backward bend is done. This yoga makes our body flexible.

How To Perform Camel Pose:

1. Kneel on yoga mat and keep your hands on hips
2. Slowly bend backwards while placing your hands on feet
3. If you can’t be able to bend too much don’t force your body
4. Stay in this pose for some time

 

Benefits of Camel Pose:

1. It helps to reduce fat on thighs
2. This pose helps to improve digestive system
3. This pose stretches the front body
4. Improves body flexibility and also improves posture
5. It also improves our respiratory system

Upward Facing Dog Pose:

Upward facing pose is an excellent pose which energizes our upper body and provides amazing stretch to your abdomen. It helps to increase flexibility in our body.

How To Perform Upward Facing Dog Pose:

1. Lie down on your stomach
2. Press tight your hands on floor, slowly inhale and lift up your face
3. Stay still in this position for some time
4. Exhale and move down your body

Benefits of Upward Facing Dog Pose:

1. This pose burn fat mainly from upper body
2. Tones your arm muscles
3. It gives strength to the back muscles
4. It improves our respiratory system
5. Makes body flexible

Forward Bend Pose:

Forward bending pose is type of pose which makes our body flexible and provides a good posture. If you are performing this yoga for first type or you don’t have a flexible body then don’t force your body to bend. Try it and eventually you will be able to do it.

How To Perform Forward Bend Pose:

1. Sit still on the floor while keeping legs straight
2. Keep your arms on the knees
3. Inhale by slowly bending your body forward
4. Your hands should touch on your feet’s like shown above image
5. Exhale while coming back to the normal position

Benefits of Forward Bend Pose:

1. This pose enhances our body flexibility
2. It stretches our back body
3. It provides relief to our digestive system like constipation
4. Gives good stretch in spinal cord

Gate Pose:

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This pose is also known as “Parighasana’’. This pose is kind of giving stretch to your side body. It gives you a feeling of relaxation to our body.

 How To Perform Gate Pose:

1. Sit down on your knees.
2. Straight up your right leg and extend it while keeping other knee on the ground
3. Place one hand on right leg and the other up in air
4. Keep facing upwards and breath slowly
5. Switch legs alternately
6. Be in this pose for 15- 30 seconds

Benefits of Gate Pose:

1. This pose gives a good stretch to our body. It stretches the pelvic area
2. Helps in increasing body flexibility
3. It builds up strength in our spine
4. Gate pose improves our body balance

Corpse Pose / Shavasana:

In Corpse pose, we just have to relax our whole tired body. This pose is done at last after performing any workout or yoga.

How to Perform Corpse Pose:

1. Lie straight on back while keeping your hands and legs straight
2. Close your eyes, breath slowly and smile a little bit to makes your body happy and relaxed
3. Be in this pose for at least a minute or as much you want

Benefits of Corpse Pose:

1. This pose calms our mind and helps to relieve stress
2. Deeply relaxes your body muscles
3. Reduces anxiety and depression
4. It reduces headaches
5. It improves our respiratory system

FAQs

Q1. Can I lose weight by doing Yoga?
Ans. Yes. Yoga helps to lose and maintain your body weight.

Q2. Is Yoga better than Gym?
Ans. If you want to improve your body posture, balance and want flexibility then yoga is better option.

Q3. Will yoga get me in shape?
Ans. Yes yoga builds up muscle tone and strength.

Q4. Is yoga good for PCOS?
Ans.Yes yoga is extremely good for PCOS it helps to ease the symptoms of PCOS.

Q5. Which time is best for yoga?
Ans.Yoga is recommended to do in morning or early evening.