Lots of things can cause constipation: poor diet (especially not getting enough fiber and fluids), stress, travel, and even certain medications and digestive conditions like diabetes can all prevent your colon from absorbing enough water from the food you eat so it can be easily eliminated.
Drinking more water and adding fiber-rich foods to your diet can ease constipation, but so can movement. Physical activity stimulates the muscles in your intestine, so they can move your waste along more easily. Yoga has an added benefit in relieving constipation. Certain yoga poses particularly twists and poses that put pressure on the abdomen gently massage your digestive tract, encouraging it to move stool along. In fact, a 2015 study found that yoga can ease symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which often includes bouts of constipation.
that thing, I’d feel better. This included life events, like getting
that job or moving to
that city. But it especially pertained to yoga poses. As someone with lifelong anxiety, I was always rushing through things to get to the end, hoping I would find peace there.
But whenever I did get to the other side of things, especially when it was a yoga pose, nothing remarkable ever really happened. No balloons fell from the sky or alarm bells rang. No one ran out applauding, “You did it!” My anxiety always remained. In fact, it was often heightened, and I’d find myself asking, “Now what?”
It seems as if yoga truly is the answer. For wellness gurus and health freaks, the pandemic has been a chance to rediscover the joys (and advantages) of this age-old practice and at a time when people have started to complain more about stress, fatigue, and even spiritual dryness, it seems as if it s yoga truly could be
the answer.
If you ve been spending hours all day in front of a computer, whether working from home or at the office, then chances are that tension has been building up right behind you. But whether you need to destress your upper, lower, or middle back, here are a few yoga poses you may want to incorporate into your daily routine in order to loosen the tension and get right back to work.