Healing Yoga

Mona Ray
Jun 21, 2023
3 min read

Updated: Jul 5, 2023

Three Yoga Poses to Restore Your Energy Level; Good to Practice if you suffer due Chronic Conditions Including Cancer and ME/CFS.

Everybody experiences tiredness and fatigue, so restorative asanas can make miracles when you feel like that. Still, restorative asanas can improve how you feel and play a significant part in various chronic conditions, such as cancer, especially after chemo and radiotherapy, and patients with Fibromyalgia, Adrenal Fatigue or ME/CFS etc. All the conditions are very severe and debilitated, and restorative Yoga can restore your energy level and help you get better. I have been experiencing the miraculous effects of Yoga daily. I love Yoga and how I feel during and after Yoga. It is a relationship that started when I was a teenager, and we had our breakups and comebacks, but Yoga has always been my oasis. With Yoga, I can regenerate, recuperate, and find myself and my inner peace.

Thus, I will present three lovely asanas you can do anywhere, even in bed.

Tips

A hot shower or bath before Yoga is recommended, but it is unnecessary.

Yoga is not a competition with anyone, even with yourself. Remember to listen to your body and do nothing that makes you uncomfortable, dizzy etc. If you feel any discomfort, slowly get out of the pose.

Yoga helps you to get in touch with your body, calm your mind and allows you to find yourself.

Keep the place warm, put inside some fresh air, light candles, light incense, and put on relaxing music in the background.

Props

It would help if you had two yoga blocks (or books), one belt (or scarf), one bolster (or a thick & long pillow) and one thick towel or small blanket.

Baddhakonasana - Fixed Angle Pose

How to do it?

You can sit on a bolster or pillow (put the bolster vertically or horizontally), bend your knees, soles touching each other, and heels close to your groins or bolster. Push knees away and slowly lower them to the blocks. Put your arms on sides of the bolster and your palms on the floor, pull in your abdomen, and open your chest. Stay in the pose for 1 -5 min.

Cautions

If you have asthma, bronchitis, breathlessness, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiac conditions or premenstrual stress, sit against a wall and do not curve your lower back.

Benefits

Stimulates the heart & improves circulation in the pelvic area.

Tones the spine, abdominal & pelvic organs.

Prevent hernia

Allivavates sciatica & varicose veins

Reduces menstrual pain, irregular menstruation, and leukorrhea.

Supta Baddhakonasana -Reclining Fixed Angle Pose

How to do it?

Put a bolster behind you; the short end should touch your buttocks; put a folded blanket on its far end and put blocks on their broadsides on either side of your hips. Bend your knees, join your soles, and bring your heels to your groins. Put each block under each thigh. Loop a buckled belt around your shoulders, then around your waist, and pass it under your feet, bringing your feet closer to your groin. Keep the belt not too loose and not too tight. Lower your back, head onto the bolster, and stretch out to the sides, your arms on the floor, palms facing up. Relax your body. Stay in the pose for 1 min; gradually increase the time to 5-10 min.

Cautions

Use two bolsters if you experience any strain, and put a towel on the blocks if you have strain in the groin area.

Benefits

Regulates blood pressure

Prevents hips’ hernia, makes groin more supple

Relives lower backache

Relives varicose veins and sciatica

Reduces haemorrhoid pain

Relive indigestion & flatulence

It tones the kidneys & improves bladder control

Improves blood circulation in the ovarian area

Alleviates menstrual pain & leukorrhea

Corrects a prolapsed uterus

Savasana/Corpse Pose

How to do it?

Put a bolster on a yoga mat, a folded blanket on the far end, and a bolster under your knees if you have bad knees.

1. Sit in Dandasana (check beleow). Keep the bolster close to your buttocks, and slowly lower your back, vertebra by vertebra, until your head rests comfortably on the folded blanket. Put your arms on the sides with palms facing up.

2. Straighten your legs and stretch them evenly away from each other; Exhale and relax. Keep your arms not too far, not too close to your trunk.

Relax from your feet to your head, including your face, jaw and eyes. Do not clench your teeth. Relax and observe your breath. Practice for 5-10 min.