Yoga Poses For Asthma

Asthma is a disease which is suffered by many people today including children. It can be triggered by allergies, genetic factors or stress and anxieties. Asthma is defined by a condition where air passages in the lungs become inflamed and thus shortness of breath happens on regular intervals making the patients feel like a fish out of water.Yoga can help the patients focus on their breathing and teach them breathing control. Learning yoga is also beneficial in calming the nerves, which help the patients in being calm during the asthma attacks. However, it is always better to consult the physician before incorporating any of these exercises in one’s lifestyle. Read on to know some of the best yoga exercises to help you regulate the breathing patterns.

This is one of the easiest yoga poses and can be done anywhere. All you have to do is to sit down on a floor or a mat, keep yourself erect with legs crisscrossed, placing your feet below your knees, and clasping your hands around the knees. Extend your body upwards on each breathe taken in and breathe normally. It helps in calming the nerves and gives a rhythmic pattern to the breathing.

 

It is also one of the easiest exercises and doesn’t need much space and time for execution. All you have to do is to lift your left shoulder up with the breathe in, and put it down with the breathe out. Do the same with the right shoulder too. Now take both shoulders up and both shoulders down with inhaling and exhaling respectively. For beginners you can start with one set of five for each. It helps in improving the posture and discourages stiffness, which restrict breathing.

 

Surya namaskara or sun salutation is a combo of 12 poses in a sequence. Respiratory mechanism can be combated by the chronological breathing series during the Sun Salutation. It is one of the most important exercises of asthma relief and can be done under the inspection of a trainer.

 

Kabalbhati is a highly meditated breathing technique that requires the breathing in short sequences rapidly and consciously controlling the movements of the diaphragm exercising the entire respiratory system. It is one of the very effective exercises however; it should be done only after the permission of the physician and under the surveillance of a professional yoga teacher.

 

This exercise can be done after lying on the back with arms at the side with the palms facing up. The legs should be together and straight with the feet rolled out to the sides. Now tilt your forehead higher than your chin and let your body relax completely. Hold the position for ten minutes with regular breathing and then release.