JCSC Wellness Blog

Top 8 Reasons: Why Sun Salutation Is Beneficial

1. It benefits joints, ligaments, and the skeletal system by improving posture and balance.
2. Yoga poses increase blood flow to your digestive tract and stimulate the intestinal, so digestion is more efficient.
3. It calms the mind, thus helps to get sounds sleep. You can promote more regular and restful sleeping patterns.
4. Boosts blood circulation and helps to prevent hair graying, hair fall, and dandruff. It also improves the growth of hair making it long.
5. It helps to lose the extra calories, which will help with the excessive belly fat and will give a flat stomach.
6. Helps to add glow on your face making facial skin radiant and ageless. It is the natural solution to prevent wrinkles.
7. It gives vitality and strength, it also reduces the feeling of restlessness and anxiety.
8. It improves flexibility in spine and limbs.

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Various Positions for Yoga

• Mountain Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Upward Salute 
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Standing Forward Bend
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Cat Cow Stretch
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Cobra Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Downward Dog      
  • hold for 5 breaths                            Click Image for Larger View          

• Chair Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Warrior One
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs
• Warrior Two
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs
• Triangle Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs
• Half Moon Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs
• Tree Pose                                            Click Image for Larger View
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs

• Plank Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Dolphin Plank Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Boat Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Child Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Spinal Twist
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs
• Bow Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths  
• Bridge Pose                                          Click Image for Larger View
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Seated Leg Stretch
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs
• Pigeon Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths for both legs

• Seated Forward Bend
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Bound Angle Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Shoulder Stand Plow
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Reclining Spinal Twist
  • hold for 5 breaths for both sides
• Fish Pose
  • hold for 5 breaths
• Corpse Pose                                       Click Image for Larger View      
  • hold for 5 breaths

Sources:

What Are the Benefits of the Sun Salutation in Yoga?

10 Reasons to Do Sun Salutations