Postpartum yoga helps new moms relieve fatigue

Yoga is a sport that combines spirit and body. It not only provides people with inner peace and tranquility, but also naturally has a positive impact on health. After the baby is born, new moms will always feel physically exhausted and often in a bad mood. Practicing yoga at this time may have unexpected results.

◆ Boat type

1. Lie on your back with your legs straight. Keep your arms flat at your sides, palms down.

2. Inhale and lift your head, upper torso, legs and arms all off the ground. Arms should be straightened forward parallel to the ground while storing air without breathing, while maintaining this position as long as possible, provided that it is not forced to work hard.

3. While slowly exhale, gradually restore your legs and trunk to relax your whole body. Repeat this exercise 3 times.

Role: Helps abdominal organs and muscles, helps promote intestinal peristalsis and improves digestive function.

◆ Cat Stretch

1. Kneel down, sit on your heels, and straighten your back.

2. Lift your hips and put your hands on the ground. Inhale, lift your head, contract your back muscles, and hold for 5 seconds.

3. Exhale, lower your head, arch your spine, and hold for another 5 seconds. Stretch your arms straight perpendicular to the ground.

Effect: Helps the uterus return to its normal position.

◆ Tiger style

1. Start on your knees, sit your hips on your heels, and straighten your spine. Stretch your hands forward, place them on the floor, raise your hips, and make a crawling posture.

2. Look straight forward with your eyes, inhale, and stretch your right leg back. Hold your breath without breathing, bend your right knee and point it towards your head. Keep your eyes straight up for 5 seconds.

3. Exhale and place your bent legs back under your hips, close to your chest, with your toes above the ground, look down, your nose close to your knees, and your spine should be arched. Stretch your right leg rearward and restore it 5 times for each leg.

Effect: Reduce fat in the hip and thigh area and strengthen the reproductive organs.

◆ Leg back stretch

1. Sit upright with your legs stretched forward and palms on your thighs.

2. Stretch your arms flat forward, retract your shoulders back, inhale, hold your arms high above your head, exhale, bend forward slowly, bend forward as comfortably as possible, grab your calves with both hands, bend your elbows outward and downward, lower your head, as close as possible to your knees, and hold for 10 seconds.

3. Inhale and straighten your arms to restore. Relax your body and repeat it twice.

Role: Helps to revitalize the uterus and bladder and nourish the gonads.

◆ Full locust style

1. Lie on your face, straighten your arms back, exhale, and lift your head, chest, and legs at the same time.

2. Breathe regularly and hold this position for as long as possible.

3. Gradually restore, relax the whole body, and repeat twice.

Effect: It is beneficial to various organs in the pelvis. (Internship Editor: Tong Wenchong)