Purusha Yoga for Back Pain

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I'm joy and welcome to yoga today we're going to do some yoga exercises or healthy back or just yoga for back pain no matter where along your spine you're experiencing pain these simple exercises that you can do at work or anywhere you happen to be will really help to alleviate that pain so we're going to start with just some gentle neck rolls and the circle is about the size of the CD start to take some nice deep breaths with this keep circling your nose around letting all the muscles in your neck and shoulders relax and now we're going to circle in the other direction and if you clench your teeth or we have any pain in your jaw you might enjoy it exhale with the mouth open so take a deep breath for your nose and then exhale Reem out and now coming back up to Center take a deep breath in and gently rotate through inhale Center and exhale the other way and breathing in center and now we're going to gently take one ear towards the shoulder take a deep breath back to the sector and slow down your exhalation so that you can stay in the stretch a little bit longer inhale back to Center and now just roll up your shoulders getting all the tension out of your shoulders as you're old about and let's start to move down the spine so sitting up nice and tall take a deep breath and open your mark throw an eyes look upward squeeze your shoulder blades together and then exhale slowly come forward suck your belly in and up tuck your chin to your chest and bring your head all the way down let it just drop down slowly roll back up inhale and take it down exhale one more time breathe in lift your chest and exhale it out pull your belly in towards your spine tuck your chin to chest relax in coming back to Center now we're going to take the spine side to side so inhale reach up and gently come into a side press in good shape stretching out your waist inhale up in the way and exhale into that Crescent Moon pull your dom rolls back these muscles in your abdominal wall release or your lower backs you want to keep them strong and now we're going to reach full doggers up in hand and gently twist to that side stay in a twist and take a deep breath looking to the wall behind you inhale reach up and getting twist the other way stay in a twist and take deep breath looking towards the wall behind you inhale reach up and take your arms by your side our last exercise is going to be eagle ours it looks like this so it may not get crossed that deeply in your body any kind of crossover it's going to be great so you can just do it once twice or maybe three times lift those elbows up and down a couple more times and then switch and bring the opposite arm on top and breathing gently lift your arms up and down a few times and when you're ready let it go roll up your shoulders ah take a few deep breaths Circle your head neck shoulders gently engage your abdominals remember when you sit up tall and your abdominals are an age that also can really help keeping your spine long and strong for more exercises to strengthen your core keep it healthy back or just general fitness please contact us at purusha yoga we have yoga therapy and we're happy to help you on your journey towards improved health they will be namaste