4 Amazing Morning Yoga Poses You Can Do In Bed

The effects of morning yoga are well-studied. It helps you be more balanced and in the present moment quickly after waking. 

It mobilizes your outer and inner resources by toning your body and clearing up your mind, making you feel both physically and mentally strong for whatever the day brings.

4 Amazing In-bed Morning Yoga Poses 

1. Balasana / Child’s Pose

Why: Balasana will calm the mind, relieve stress and fatigue, reduce back and neck pain, and stretch the hips, thighs, and ankles. It’s known as a restful pose, so you can also do it in between more active yoga poses.

2. Bhujangasana / Cobra Pose

Why: Bhujangasana is believed to help combat stress and fatigue, strengthen the spine, relieve lower back pain, open the chest, heart, and lungs, stretch shoulders and abdomen, stimulate abdominal organs, and firm the glutes.

3. Setu Bandha Sarvangasana / Bridge Pose

Why: Setu Bandha Sarvangasana is known for stretching the chest, neck, and spine, rejuvenating tired legs, calming the brain and reducing headache and insomnia, helping alleviate stress and anxiety,

stimulating abdominal organs, lungs, and thyroid, improving digestion, relieving menstrual discomfort and the symptoms of menopause.

4. Adho Mukha Svanasana / Downward-Facing Dog Pose

Why: Adho Mukha Svanasana is proven to provide a full-body stretch, strengthen the core, open the shoulders, tone the arms and legs, lengthen the hamstrings and calves, and improve circulation.

5. Padmasana / Lotus Pose

Why: Padmasana calms the brain, stimulates the pelvis, spine, abdomen, and bladder, stretches the ankles and knees, eases menstrual discomfort and sciatica. Lotus is also a foundation for meditation practice.

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