Yoga for seniors, Yoga Exercises for seniors, Easy yoga for seniors

Posted on August 7, 2007 in Yoga for Everyone

Growing old means you have more time for yourself, your family, for leisure, recreation and relaxation. Unfortunately it is also the time when you are more susceptible to old age ailments like arthritis, rheumatism, incontinence, and high blood pressure. Seniors can stay fit and healthy during this age by taking up mild forms of exercise such as jogging, brisk walking, and the ideal one is yoga.

Yoga is a form of exercise that makes your body fitter, the mind calmer and more relaxed. Yoga affords more benefits in prevention of common health and emotional problems linked with old age. It helps you to get in touch with yourself and your body, enabling you to accept who you are and creates a positive approach in life.

Some yoga asanas will normalize your blood pressure and balance the nervous system and help in prevention of heart ailments and problems in the nervous system. The breathing techniques make you feel refreshed and cleanse the air passages to help prevent respiratory ailments.

In yoga, it helps to know your body and respect its limits. You should not push yourself, or it may harm instead of help. Remember that yoga aims to quieten the mind as you exercise the body, so if you feel any pain, you must stop what you are doing.

The following is a basic yoga session for the senior citizens.

Cat Yoga Pose: Coordinates the movement and breath, increasing the flexibility of the spine, back and the pelvis. It also helps in increasing blood circulation towards the kidneys, which helps in cleansing the wastes increasing blood supply.

Dog Yoga Pose: Reduces stiffness of the legs, shapes and strengthens the upper body, stretches the pelvis, legs, arms and feet. Stimulates the nervous system and rejuvenates the body

Double Leg Raise Yoga Pose: It must be done after head stand pose. It strengthens the abdominal and lower back muscles. It helps to trim the waist and the thighs

Half Spinal Twist Yoga Pose: This yoga pose twists and tones the spinal nerves laterally, stretches the ligaments, tones up the abdominal muscles and recharges the lungs.

Locust Yoga Pose: It greatly helps in improving one’s health, increasing the resistance and mental awareness.

Wind Relieving Yoga Pose: It helps to evacuate the excess gas from the stomach, the intestines and the lungs. It also tones and stretches the lower back. When you perform this pose, you make the spine, back muscles and ligaments spring like and elastic.

Corpse Yoga Pose : This is the classic pose called Corpse Yoga Pose or Savasana. It must be practiced before each asana, in between asanas and as the final asana.

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