Is your sleep cycle currently messed up?
Do you find it difficult to rest and sleep soundly at night?
If you said yes to both yogic practices and meditation, it might be time to incorporate yoga in your nightly routine.
Yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises can help you sleep soundly!
Below are some yoga poses (asanas) you can do before sleeping to help you sleep better.
Downward Facing Dog
This is one of the most common yoga poses and should be your starting point.
It helps relieve tension by working out the leg muscles.
Execute the pose by keeping your feet flat on your yoga mat with your hands in front of your feet.
Make a triangle with your rear as the point.
You can modify the yoga pose if you want to make it easy by slowly moving your hands closer to make it a more flexibility-building move.
As you move out of the downward facing dog pose, you can ease into the side angle pose.
This will entail you rising up to a standing V shape pose with your core as the point of the inverted V.
Keep your feet spread out flat on the ground.
From there, raise your arms.
Lean from one side, then to the other.
The primary goal with this pose would be to stretch your side muscles and do so without any tension.
Hold and breathe in slowly through each side for 20 seconds.
Forward Bend
Moving from a side angle pose, bring your feet together and bend at your waist.
The purpose of the bend in hatha poses is to be able to put the hands flat on the floor (in front of the feet).
While this may seem like an impossible pose to execute, you can actually work your way through this position.
The primary aim is to bend at the waist and touching your toes without causing any injuries to the body.
Lotus Pose
Once done executing the forward bend poses, you can proceed to do the sitting position.
This position is called the lotus pose.
You can start the pose by sitting with the legs crossed and the hands turned palm up on the knees.
From there, close your eyes and start doing slow and steady meditative breathing.
Corpse Pose
Corpse pose is the final pose.
Start the pose by laying flat on your back first.
Your legs should be out, at least a shoulder width apart.
The soles of the feet should be facing forward.
The arms should be at least at a 45-degree angle out to the sides.
Stay in the yoga pose for several minutes while breathing slowly.
Doing the mentioned yoga poses at night has been known to help ensure sleeping cycle gets better over time.
Doing yoga practices at night prior to sleeping can be difficult (especially if you have kids) but once you can integrate the routine in your day-to-day life, you’ll be sleeping like a baby in no time.
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