Boost Your Flexibility with These 8 Yoga Poses
Flexibility is one key element of good physical health. Over time, though, your body may lose flexibility due to aging, a sedentary lifestyle, stress, or improper posture and movement habits.
Regularly practicing yoga at a class or home may be a great way to increase mobility in your muscles and joints.
Along with boosting your flexibility, practicing specific yoga poses may also help you build muscle strength and reduce feelings of stress or anxiety.
In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of increasing your flexibility and walk you through the best yoga poses for improving flexibility in your back, hips, core, neck, and shoulders.
If you want to try a yoga class to increase flexibility, Hatha, Vinyasa, or Yin styles are all good options.
If you prefer to practice some yoga poses at home, the following poses can help stretch many of your major muscles and improve flexibility.
With each pose, go at your own pace. Focus on how the pose feels instead of how it looks. You can repeat each pose as many times as you like, as long as it doesn’t feel painful or too difficult to do correctly.
You can use a prop for some of these poses. Props may bring the ground closer to you or provide support and stability. Some props to adapt yoga poses to your current flexibility include:
- cushions
- chairs
- yoga blocks
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