Struggling with jet lag is real. Jet lag temporarily causes trouble concentrating, bloated bellies, mood swings, fatigue, and disturbances in sleep patterns. Need some remedies for Jet Lag? Try these 6 Yoga Poses to reclaim control of your mind and body during your Travel adventures!
Sphinx Pose | Yoga Poses For Jet Lag
Sphinx Pose is a beginning backbend in yoga that is great for fighting jet lag. It helps to open the chest, lungs, and lower back. It is a variation of the backbend, Cobra Pose, that is suitable for those with wrist pain, injuries, or carpal tunnel syndrome. Since Sphinx is performed on the forearms, it takes the pressure off the wrists while providing all of the benefits of Cobra Pose.
Benefits
- Stimulates the digestive organs
- Helps to rebalance the natural curve of your lower back
- Lengthens the abdominal muscles
- Stretches and opens the chest, lungs, and shoulders
- Invigorates the body
- Soothes the nervous system
- Therapeutic for fatigue
Bound Angle Pose | Yoga Poses For Jet Lag
Bound Angle Pose is a well-known seated yoga posture that opens up the hips. Take your bound angle pose further with a forward variation. In the forward variation of the bound angle pose, it helps improve general circulation and helps anxiety and fatigue.
Benefits
- Stretches the hips, groins, knees, and inner thighs.
- Improves circulation and blood flow throughout the entire body
- Stimulates the heart, abdominal organs, kidneys, ovaries, and the prostate gland.
- Calms the mind to reduce stress, anxiety, and mild depression.
- Prepares the body for meditation with the flexibility of the hips
- Proper blood circulation through the organs
Downward Dog | Yoga Poses For Jet Lag
Deservedly one of yoga’s most widely recognized yoga poses, Downward Dog, offer the ultimate all-over, rejuvenating stretch, especially during jet lag. Because your heart is higher than your head in this pose, it is considered a mild inversion and holds all the benefits of inversions: Relief from headaches, insomnia, fatigue, and mild depression.
Benefits
- Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and anxiety
- Energizes the body
- Stretches the shoulders, hamstrings, calves, arches, and hands
- Strengthens the arms and legs
- Improves digestion
- Relieves headache, insomnia, back pain, and fatigue
Seated Heart Opener | Yoga Poses For Jet Lag
This seated heart opener is great for revitalising the mind-body connection when dealing with the grogginess of jet lag. The more you expand your sternum, rib cage and the rest of your upper body with chest openers, the more blood, oxygen and nerve circulation will be freed up to invigorate you mentally and physically. Say goodbye to that day time fatigue and enjoy your travel adventures!
Benefits
- Stretches the back of the neck and chest
- Reduce back tension
- Relieve headache
Half Dog Pose | Yoga Poses For Jet Lag
Being restricted to sitting down in the plane limits the range of motion of the body. One part that gets targeted in particular is the shoulders and neck. There are studies that show that muscle tension in the neck is one of the causes of headaches (tension headaches)! When you are in the Half Wall Hang, this pose stretches your arms while opening up your shoulders and loosen the neck muscles. Remember to keep your neck to the spine in line when you are in this pose!
Benefits
- Releasing lower back pain
- Stretches out the arms and back of the legs
- Alleviates any tension in the neck and shoulders
- Excellent stress and anxiety reliever
- Great energy booster
Supine Spinal Twist | Yoga Poses For Jet Lag
Did you know that symptoms of jet lag include stomach problems such as bloating constipation and diarrhoea? Lucky for you Supine Spinal Twist is here to help! Practice this Yoga Pose when jet lag has you feeling irregular from stress or perhaps aeroplane food. This pose detoxifies your organs, encouraging fresh blood flow and increasing the function of your digestive system.
Benefits
- Stretches the back muscles and glutes
- Massages the back and hips
- Hydrate the spinal disks
- Lengthens, relaxes, and realigns the spine
- Massages the abdominal organs and strengthens the abdominal muscles
- Remove toxins
- Encourages the flow of fresh blood to your digestive organs
- Increasing the health and function of your entire digestive system
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