Yoga While Traveling – Yoga pose can improve your health while traveling

If you are a travel addict or just happen to travel a lot. You know how exhausting it can be sometimes. In fact, it is very easy to get off-balance during those long airport lines and long flights, train rides, or road trips. Also, it’s almost unbearable when you get annoying seatmates who somehow always seem to have a cold, cough or the worst; a crying baby.Moreover, when you finally reach the destination to enjoy you feel too spent to do anything else. What a waste! Moreover, sitting in one place messes up your blood circulation, digestion and metabolism.

 

Yoga While Traveling –

Yoga is the ultimate cure! The following yoga poses will help you remain energized throughout your journey. All you need is just 15-20 minutes of your day.

  1. VIRBHADRASANA II (WARRIOR II)

This yoga pose is perfect for getting some blood circulation going. It strengthens calves and quads, improves ankle and core stability, opens inner thighs and stimulates slow-twitch fibers in torso and shoulders.

2. ARDHA CHANDRASANA (HALF MOON POSE)

This yoga pose helps in stimulating leg muscles ,improving balance and engaging the core. Moreover, if you are feeling too sleepy after a long flight practice this pose I assure you will feel a lot better. It will wake you up!

3. UTKATASANA (CHAIR POSE)

The chair pose helps in waking up all those parts of your body where the blood flow wasn’t adequate because you were strapped into a seatbelt. Not to mention, it will strengthen your legs, core, arms and shins.

4. VRKSASANA(TREE POSE)

The tree pose improves ankle stability and foot arch strength, opens up your hips, balance and engage your core. Moreover, it stretches and strengthens the back and side of your legs which usually gets stiff during commutes.

5. UTTANASANA(FORWARD BEND)

If you suffer from back pain because of uncomfortable seating positions then forward bend pose will help you a lot. Moreover, it will stimulate blood flow to the brain, lower back and take stress off the spine.

6. PARSVAKONASANA(EXTENDED SIDE ANGLE)

This yoga pose opens the inner thighs, strengthens the quads, opens the torso, stretches the hip flexors and improves core stability and helps in relieving lower back pain.

7. ARDHA ADHO MAKHA SVANASANA(HALF DOG)

Also, this yoga pose opens your shoulders, chest, shoulders, hamstrings and back. Moreover, it helps in relieving lower back pain

8. URDHVA PRASARITA EKA PADASANA(STANDING SPLIT)

At last, this yoga pose tests your flexibility and sends a bit more blood to the brain and opens your hip flexors.

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