Muscle Flexibility
Yoga for Muscle Flexibility
It is never too late to improve flexibility. You do not need a gymnast’s strength and a dancer’s flexibility. Repeated stretches help release any lactic acid build up, that causes tension, pain, fatigue, and stiffness in muscles and joints.
Yoga asanas stretch your muscles, ligaments, tendons and even the fascia sheath around your muscles. Yoga asanas lubricate your joints to give you more flexibility within a few weeks, as well as a relaxed, fluid feeling.
Flexibility reduces the risk of back problems, improves range of motion in the joints, provides better circulation and concentration and will help relieve chronic pain.
Approach deep stretches passively and intuitively. Start the exercises in savasana (flat on floor) or seated position, scan the body, and find the areas that are tense.
Find basic asanas to stretch the backs of the legs, hips, sides of the torso, and upper back and stay for one to three minutes in positions where you feel the most intensity. Practice belly breathing to help cleanse the body.
