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5 Yoga Asanas You Should Follow With Your Family On Weekends

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by Manmohan Singh

Summary: Weekends are not only meant to sleep till late, eat junk, or take a stroll at a mall. Alter it with yoga, making it healthy and enticing for your family. Learn about five asanas to follow with your family on weekends.

Is there anything better than spending time with family over the weekends where you can have fun, talk, remember old times, and lots more. Relaxing at home after a tiring weekend is simply an amazing feeling, but during those two days, most of us endure hours of lying in bed watching TV, keep on munching food out of boredom or do nothing progressive.

Make your weekend fun with your family with yoga. Practice some amazing poses with them creatively, which you might have learned during 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Bangalore or at a yoga retreat in Dharmashala.

Tree Pose (Vrksasana)

Stand steady and gracefully like a tree, Vrksasana’s daily practice lets you imbibe the features along with improving body posture and balance. The pose is easy to perform with your family and keep a check on their wellbeing. Loaded with a lot of body and mind benefits, the pose strengthens the spine, improves neuro-muscular coordination, tones muscles, and relieves sciatica.

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Mountain Pose (Tadasana)

Weekends are to mean to be enjoyed and with yoga make it happy and healthy. Mountain pose can be easily practiced by kids and your parents. It is considered the base or mother pose of all asanas from which all the other poses, mostly standing, emerges. This wonder pose is host to benefits including improved body posture and balance, stronger lower body, toned abdomen, better nervous and digestive system function, and more.

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Garland Pose (Malasana)

The yoga squatting pose, Malasana is simple and comes naturally to kids. A wonderful yoga asana for maintaining healthy digestive functioning, Garland pose stretches lower back, instigates metabolism, tones belly reducing fat, improves posture, and enhances flexibility. The pose can be a fun activity for kids and make it more interesting with your innovative stories.

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Child’s Pose

Another fun pose to practice with family over the weekend, Balasana is a simple, relaxing and restorative pose that rejuvenates the body and mind. The pose is a resting pose and focuses on alleviating stress, pain and brings a great sense of emotional solace. The pose helps to release tension, reduces fatigue, massages internal organs, lengthens the spine, enhances circulation, calms the mind-body, etc. Practice it with props for more comfort as you learn during 200 Hour yoga teacher training in Bangalore.

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Downward Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Savasana)

Pose related to nature entices kids, and elder people can perform it using the help of prop or table. A downward facing dog is a gentle inversion pose that is liable to calm the nervous system providing a good stretch to the whole body. Make it a fun pose, assuming it as a tunnel through which all the other family members can crawl. The pose strengthens the abdomen, improves circulation, enhances digestion, tones hands, and feet, reduces stress and decreases anxiety.

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Ditch your traditional and boring weekends’ plans with some yogic fun activities, and give your family a dose of laughter and good health.

Author bio:

Manmohan Singh is a passionate Yogi, Yoga Teacher and a Traveller in India. He organize 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh. Manmohan Singh conducts Yoga Teacher Training in Kerala in different cities. He loves writing and reading books related to yoga, health, nature and the Himalayas.

Website : https://shwaasa.org/

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