Yoga for movement
Exercise is key for mental and physical health. Physical exercise works more nerve cells on the brain than any other activity. The reason we have a brain is to move. You don't have to do vigorous exercise, but stop being a couch potato. A simple walk every day, going up and down the stairs, or taking 10,000 steps daily, is enough to provide significant health benefits.
Yoga is a good exercise for all ages and body constitutions. A consistent yoga practice, along with breathing techniques, increases metabolism and bone density, improves joint health and flexibility, reduces stress and anxiety, and improves overall health. A consistent practice of the proper yoga poses for your mental and physical constitution, can provide you with many health benefits now and in the future, including a strong sense of well-being.
3 Yoga poses to make you move :
Bridge Pose opens the chest, heart, and shoulders. It stretches the spine, the back of the neck, the thighs, and the hip flexors (front hip joints).Bridge Pose also stimulates the abdominal organs and thyroid glands, which improves digestion and helps to regulate metabolism.
The plank pose strengthens your spine, your rhomboids and trapezius, and your abdominal muscles, which naturally result in a strong posture as they grow in strength. Developing your posture can improve on a number of ailments, and prevent the onset of other ones. Good posture means you're keeping your bones aligned.
Boat pose, or paripurna navasana, is an oldie but goodie when you want to strengthen your core. It simultaneously works your hip flexors, abdominis and adductor muscles.
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