From looking younger to easing joint pain, these poses could be the answer
FEEL good Fridays are all about treating yourself after a long working week. That includes self-care practices to help you feel good.
This Feel good Friday edition is one of the body.
These expertly chosen yoga poses and stretches can help with a number of issues.
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There’s yoga to help you touch your toes, have a stress-free road trip and look younger.
In addition, Sun Bingo has rounded up stretches to help alleviate period pain and ease join pain without having to see a doctor.
Shake off the week and stretch into the weekend.
Touching your toes
In this article, yoga coach and martial artist Chloe Bruce proposes her ultimate at-home stretch workout to help improve flexibility in your calves, hamstrings, glutes and hips. By improving the flexibility in these areas, you should be able to touch your toes.
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For the best results, Chloe recommends practising these eight poses once a day for two weeks. The aim should be to hold each stretch for 30 seconds on each side.
After two weeks, there’ll be toe stopping you!
Alleviating period pain
Pelvic floor physical therapist Dr Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas has revealed the exercises that she recommends to help banish period pain.
Yogis will recognise the poses, which include yoga classics such as child’s pose and pigeon.
If you aren’t familiar with the poses, the article has a video that shows you how the poses should be done.
Stress-free driving
Long road trips leave you feeling cramped and sore, it’s enough to drive you round the bend.
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Back in 2017, the Boys of Yoga teamed up with Citroen to create a five-pose yoga routine to help you de-stress during long drives.
However, these moves are NOT intended to be done whilst actually driving. Instead, they are great to do before setting off, during a rest break or once you arrived at your destination.
The poses help to loosen the spine, stretch your hamstrings and relax your legs.
Looking younger
Face yoga can apparently offer a new way to combat the appearance of aging on your face.
Murad Alam, who led a study on the matter at Northwestern University, Chicago, said: “The exercises enlarge and strengthen facial muscles, so the face becomes firmer, more toned and shaped like a younger face”.
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Yoga guru Annelise Hagen has constructed an eight-pose workout for readers to try.
Researchers suggest that half an hour of facial exercises a day for 20 weeks can take up to three years off your face.
Give these poses a go so that you can namaste looking young!
Easing joint pain
Almost 10 million people suffer from body pain every day. However, there can be ways to alleviate joint pain without visiting a doctor.
Osteopath and recovery specialist James Davies has revealed four body parts that are highly prone to pain: the neck, hips, shoulders and lower back. He outlines ways to test whether key body areas are heathy. James also recommends key stretches and exercises that you can do at home to help prevent painful strain.
James as worked with the likes of Sir Mo Farah, Jamie Vardy and Joe Wicks.
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