Yoga is also a valuable ally to facilitate digestive activity. Thanks to the work carried out with powerful specific asanas, especially the twists, the internal organs in the abdominal area are purified and the assimilation of food is facilitated. The practice that we propose in this video combines standing and sitting positions that alternately stimulate and loosen the abdominal region, in order to increase blood flow circulation, stimulating the digestive system.
Try to hold each position for a few minutes, working deeply with the breath, this will benefit both the physical body and the energy body. Freeing the mind and relaxing the body makes the practice more effective and acts on the metabolic activity. At the end of this practice the body will be full of vitality and energy!
to the floor press the abdomen to the thighs, if you need to flex your legs, rest your palms on the ground and stay in the position breathing deeply. If you are very flexible you can walk your palms back over your feet and extend your arm.
Stay bent forward and enter Padangusthasana, spread your legs and grasp your big toes with your middle index thumb, or bring your hands to your ankles or shins. Inhale lift the torso and bring the back parallel to the floor, exhale and flex the torso towards the legs, the head goes towards the shins, the abdomen is glued to the thighs.
If you are not flexible you can keep your legs bent in the simplest variant. Stay here for five breaths and then perform the first beneficial torso twist, place your right palm on the back of your left foot and stretch your left arm upward. Stay for five breaths and then reverse the twist, bring your left hand. on the back of the right foot and raise the left arm, look up, keep the breathing always active and increase the twist as much as you can.
well active and keep your toes turned inward, bring both palms to the ground in front of you. Breathe deeply and enter the first twist, press the palm of your right hand to the ground and lift your left arm upward, gaze the raised hand follows. Remain five deep breaths and then reverse the supporting hand: bring the left hand to the ground and raise the right arm upwards, performing the twist from the other side of the body.
The gaze is always in the hand to the sky, this helps you to increase the torsion of the bust. Stay for five breaths and then come back with both arms and torso down and walk with your hands towards your left foot. Grab the outside of your foot, ankle or shin with your right hand, raise your left arm to the sky and look up. If you can bring your entire forearm to the ground, to increase the twist, bring your left arm behind your back grabbing the right inner thigh. Always choose the variant that suits you best in each position. Stay for at least five breaths and then repeat everything on the other side.
With the right hand grab the ankle, the shin or the outside of the left foot, stretch the left arm upwards and look up, if you feel like it, bring the right elbow to the ground, stretch the left arm behind the back and if you can, grab the inside of your right thigh. Here, too, stay for five breaths. Now bring your hands to your hips and lift your torso upward.
right to ninety degrees, lower the pelvis to the height of the knee, enter the position of Warrior 2, interlace the palms behind the neck keeping the elbows wide, inhale and exhale flex laterally bringing the right elbow in the direction of the right knee.
Bring the torso back upwards and, for a few moments, repeat the up and down movement, feeling well the work on the lateral abdominal musculature that is activated. Extend the right leg, bend the left knee and repeat everything on the other side, keep your hands clasped behind the neck and flex the torso laterally, bringing the left elbow towards the left thigh and then return with the torso upwards. Repeat three times activating the lateral muscles and stimulating the internal organs and endocrine glands contained in the abdominal cavity.
. With an inhale and exhale, open the left shoulder wide and increase the twist, then slowly lift the torso and bring the body back to the central position..
Bring your body into a triangle position, push your hands to the ground and keep your feet as wide as your hips, stay for a few breaths before entering a twist. Take your left hand off the mat, grab your right ankle and keep your right palm on the ground, breathing deeply, stay for a few breaths then return with both palms to the ground.
Now detach your left hand and bring it to grab the right ankle, the legs are straight, the gaze goes up as you enter the twist, if it is difficult for you to keep your legs straight, bend them gently because the goal of the exercise is to feel the abdominal twist well. After a few breaths, stretch back into the upside down dog and sit on the mat
abdominal and internal organs as long as you can, in a simple but beneficial asana that frees you from intestinal gas, acts on abdominal fats and improves digestion.
