(Juhi Aishwary, Journalist): Performing yoga is an art, it challenges you every day to cross both your physical and mental boundaries. For a healthy and fit body, you should start your morning with some yoga asanas. For this, you have to dedicate only 30 minutes daily.
Yoga not only helps to increase energy with people’s creativity but also reduces stress, increases concentration and strengthens the body’s resistance.
In this era of coronavirus, when the infection is spreading rapidly and the chances of getting sick have become more than before. Especially at such a time, immunity decreases. People sneeze and cough around us, so it is difficult for our body to stay away from pathogens. We cannot avoid coming in contact with sick people, in such a situation we can definitely work to strengthen our physical defense system.
Antibiotics and other medicines help the body recover from illness, but do not help improve the body’s resistance. At such a time, yoga is perhaps the most effective and natural means of increasing immunity, which we can adopt for a healthy life. It is an ancient art, which strengthens the body and also calms the mind. Let’s know about some simple yoga asanas that can help you have a strong resistance to fight coronavirus.
Adho mukhwanasana – This is the bread-and-butter posture of yoga, Adhosh Mukhvanasana is a great way to eliminate sinus infection, which relieves any pressure due to cold. This asana also transfers white blood cells throughout your body which helps prevent infection.
Sethubandhasana- This is a wonderful asana that also opens the thymus along with our chest, an organ responsible for the development of T-cells, a type of white blood cell required supporting the immune system and fighting infection.
Sleeping Matsyandrasana – Often known as a detox pose, which secures the spinal twist alternately and stretches the torso, increasing circulation in the stomach, kidney, intestines, which improves digestion. Digestion and the normal intestine are essential for a healthy functioning immune system.
Dhanurasana- is yet another pose that improves the flow of white cells by putting pressure on the digestive system. This asana puts pressure on the stomach, which strengthens the digestive system and makes it healthy by increasing blood flow to the abdominal organs, and because the digestive system is full of lymphocytes, small white blood cells that fight off invaders, strengthening it Increases overall and health
Bhujangasana- Bhujangasana is a chest opening posture that helps to release white cells that improve the immunity of the body. This powerful posture will repair your digestive organs, which will help you get more nutritional benefits from your food, which will serve to fuel your immune system.
Pranayama- Pranayama is known as breathing technique. A viral infection is one of the most serious cases of the impaired immune system. When your immune system is weak, the internal environment of the body is imbalanced and viruses start attacking the body. Pranayama means breathing techniques increase your immunity. Through Pranayama we control our breaths and exhale and help in improving our whole body system, providing more oxygen to our blood due to which our body automatically re-balances and restores the immune system.
Kapalbhati Pranayam is not only the best pranayama to enhance the immune system, but it also reduces stress, cures all intestinal problems. Improves blood circulation in whole body parts