How to practice yoga for a healthy temperament

Yoga is an aerobic exercise that can help improve one's body and mind and improve one's mood. Regular yoga practice can help improve the body's resistance and reduce the risk of illness. It is good to exercise regularly, but it is not suitable for everyone. For example, some people are not suitable for strenuous exercise, but yoga can be said to be more suitable for everyone. Next, let’s take a look at yoga that can help you improve your temperament!

Sphinx

Lie prone with your arms bent at 90 degrees to support your upper limbs, parallel to your legs. Lift your head and look straight ahead. Hold normal breathing for 3-6 times and repeat 2-3 times.

This pose is suitable for people who have difficulty with the Cobra pose. It has a similar conditioning effect on the body, but to a slightly lesser degree.

Benefits: Effectively relieves neck and back pain, expands the chest, and increases oxygen intake.

Seated Twist

Sit upright, place one leg on the inner thigh of the other leg, with your knee pointed up, soles of your feet on the ground, heels close to your buttocks, and the other leg straight and flat on the ground. When inhaling, extend the spine upward and place the opposite arm on the outside of the corresponding thigh. When exhaling, twist the body backward, look back, keep the shoulders level, maintain normal breathing for 3-6 times, and return to the opposite direction. Repeat 2-3 sets.

Benefits: Improves spinal alignment, relieves back pain, strengthens back strength, gently squeezes abdominal organs, promotes gastrointestinal function, and increases physical vitality.

Magic Chair

Stand up, inhale and raise your hands above your head, exhale, bend your knees and sit back on an imaginary chair, pressing your heels firmly, leaning your torso forward slightly, raising your chest, relaxing your shoulders, and looking straight ahead or upward. Hold your breath for 3-5 times, stand up straight and lower your arms, adjust your breathing and repeat 3-5 times.

Benefits: Opens the shoulder joints, tones the back muscles, improves posture, evenly develops the muscles on both sides of the body, stretches the Achilles tendon, knees and hip joints, and strengthens the legs.

Standing spine stretch

Stand upright with your toes pointing forward and not apart. Stretch your arms upward while inhaling. Exhale and bend your body forward and downward to a suitable position. Place your hands on the ground or on your legs, maintaining a stretch in your back and the back of your legs. Breathe slowly for 6-10 times, stand up slowly, and repeat the movement 3-5 times.

Benefits: Stretches the spine, improves posture, relaxes the back of the thighs, increases blood circulation to the spine and pelvic area, soothes the adrenal glands, calms the mind, increases energy and relieves fatigue, gently massages the abdominal organs, and tones the nervous system.

Right Angle

Stand up with your hands raised above your head. When you exhale, pull your tailbone back so that your body and legs form a 90-degree angle. Raise your arms and keep them in the same plane as your back. Bend your knees slightly to relieve pressure. Look forward at your hands. Breathe naturally for 3-5 times, stand up and return to the original position. Repeat 3-5 sets.

Benefits: Corrects bad posture, eliminates tension, stretches shoulders and chest, and strengthens back.

The above is yoga that can help cultivate temperament. Yoga can help enhance body flexibility. Compared with other sports, yoga has more targeted groups. For example, there is yoga that can help regulate menstruation, yoga suitable for pregnant women or postpartum women, yoga suitable for exercising before bed, or yoga exercises that can help improve qi and blood. You can choose according to your own situation.