Yogasanas for a Healthy Heart!!!!!

A healthy heart can help your body to function properly and can efficiently pump blood to every part of our body and prevent heart attacks, strokes and other diseases of heart. Research has shown that performing Yoga at least three times a week reduces blood pressure, pulse and overall risk of heart diseases.

Yoga plays an important role in prevention of cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks, hypertension and coronary heart diseases.

Yoga enhances heart health, lowers blood pressure, reduces chronic stress and boosts the immune system.

The heart which is the strongest muscle in the body can be made even healthier by means of proper Yogic exercise. Yogic exercise gives a good massage to the heart. As Yogasanas involve very little muscular activities, heart has a tendency to slow down and heart beats in a controlled manner. This reduces the levels of stress on the heart.

Here are some yogasanas which are specially beneficial for heart:

1.Bhastrika Pranayama:It is a yogic breathing technique which involves deep breathing in and out in rapid succession. This exercises the entire respiratory system, forcing higher oxygen absorption in a short time. This ensures richer blood reaches cardio vascular muscles, regardless of its quantity.

2.Anulom-Vilom Pranayama:It is a yogic breathing technique which involves breathing through alternate nostrils.Hold your right nostril with thumb, breathe in from left. Now open right nosrtil and close left nostril with middle and ring finger and breathe out from right nostril. Now breathe in from right nostril. Now close right nostril and open left and breathe out and in from left nostril.Continue for atleast 60 repetitions.

3.Moutain Pose: It is also known as Tadasana. It is a completely balanced standing posture which starts from standing. Touch your heels and big toes to each other with weight evenly balanced. Stiffen and pull up calf muscles and thighs. Take stomach in, expand chest, neck, release fingers, drop hands straight and keep them stiff.

4.Triangle pose: Stand up upright with your feet spread slightly wider than shoulder. With both arms lifted, bend towards right, hold right ankle with right hand without twisting your body. Hold it there for 30 seconds.

5.Tree pose: Also known as Vrukshasana. Proceed from mountain pose to rest your left foot on the root of right thigh and lift hands up straight till they touch palm to palm. Hold the position for twenty seconds.

Caution: These Yogasanas should be learnt and practiced under expert supervision only.