07/06/2024
Here are my 5 top yoga poses that help with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome); aiding bowel movements and overall digestive health:
1. Wind Releasing Pose aka Energy Releasing Pose (Sanskrit name: Apanasana) pull knees and thighs tight into your belly massaging and stimulating large intestine.
2. Half Wind Release Pose (Sanskrit name: Eka Pada Apanasana), you can rest your head on floor or also lift head to knee (for a double benefit of neck release and helping the digestive system), right knee squeezed into tummy stimulates the ascending colon, left knee in stimulates the descending colon.
3. Any Twist like Half Lord of The Fishes (Sanskrit name: Ardha Matsyendrasana) twist to the right and then to the left. This pose is not only brilliant for the middle back but compresses into the intestines, liver and kidneys - so it encourages digestion and elimination!
4. Locust Pose (Sanskrit name: Salabhasana) this is a great accessible backbend that also massages every digestive organ from the liver to the intestines (as your full body weight is on the abdomen). Come into a Child's Pose afterwards (which btw is also a good pose for digestion).
5. Bow Pose (Sanskrit name: Dhanurasana) - a little bit more of an intensive backbend than Locust, but if you're able to go into it, it also tones the internal organs as you're lying on your tummy. For a boosted massage rock back and forth like a rocking horse while in this pose. Once again you'll need a counter pose like Child's Pose after this backbend.
Join me every Tuesday 7:30 am in Glencairn and Thursday 5:30 pm in Fish Hoek where I incorporate all of these poses.
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