Morning Yoga Pose is amazing! After 7-8 hours of shut-eye, our body responds affectionately to movement.
Our breath is ready for us to deepen and expand its potency, and our energy is just waiting to be stirred up after a long siesta. There are countless asanas and awesome yoga poses that all have amazing benefits, so I actually found it really challenging to pick a list of 10.
So here are the current favorites for a morning practice and the reasons why we need morning yoga pose.
1. Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations)
There are several variations to this sequence of postures known as a salute to the sun. They are traditionally practiced as the sun is rising, and whichever version of Surya Namaskar you practice, they are a great way to warm up and start to sync the movement of the body with the flow of the breath.
As they work all of the 7 major chakras, they’ll help you light up energetically.
2. Utkatasana (Chair Pose)
It is most commonly called Chair Pose, which kinda suggests something comfortable and relaxing. Personally, I think it’s more appropriate to use one Utkatasana’s other translations, Thunderbolt, Fierce Pose, or Awkward Pose.
Call it what you will, Utkatasana is an amazing way to generate heat in the body and quickly build energy. Then It activates the core and the legs and challenges your mind to stay present and positive, all great benefits for a morning yoga practice.
3. Parivrtta Utkatasana (Revolved Chair Pose)
I mean, if you are going to go to all the trouble of sitting down in your not-so-comfy Chair, you might as well get the twisting benefits of the revolved variation right?! Twisting poses have a squeeze and release effect on your digestive system and internal organs so they help promote detoxification. And on that note, I’d hold off on breakfast until after your practice if you plan on getting twisty.
4. Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog)
If you only have time for one in the morning, I’d make it this one. The whole body’s involved so it’s a great way to wake up every part of your physique. That beautiful stretch through the backs of the legs and hips just feels incredible.
5. Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge)
Anjaneyasana is like a bubble bath for hip flexors. You get that lovely open stretchy feeling through the hips, arms, and torso, and it also builds strength in the legs.
A really nice morning yoga pose variation is to interlace the fingers behind the lower back and gently drawing the hands away to open the chest and heart space.
6. Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)
One of the classic yoga asanas, Trikonasana helps to give you a strong sense of grounding and stability through activating and balancing the root chakra, Muladhara. It powers up the legs and core, and the subtle twist allows you to open and light up the heart space.
7. Virabhadrasana III (Warrior 3)
Taking an energetic multivitamin and spend 30 seconds in Warrior 3! It activates the legs, the core and fires up Manipura, the solar plexus chakra encouraging feelings of confidence, determination, and willpower.
Of course, those qualities are awesome at any time of the day, but a dose in the morning means we can approach our work and daily activities with a true sense of inner strength.
8. Natarajasana (Dancer Pose)
An opportunity to find a few moments of grace on the mat. Firstly, the backbend opens the heart space and creates a surge of beautiful energy and secondly, because it’s a balance it encourages equilibrium in both the body and the mind.
9. Prasarita Padottanasana (Wide Leg Forward Fold)
Uttanasana is one of the yoga poses in the morning that makes feel better in the body. You have got glorious lengthening in the spine, a stretch through the hamstrings. It also effects of the inversion help you face the day with calmness and clarity.
There are 3 variations of Prasarita Padottanasana.
10. Ardha Matsyendrasana (Half Lord of the Fishes Pose)
Ardha Matsyendrasana is one of the classic yoga asanas for a good reason. Like all twisting postures, it promotes a healthy spine. It also helps stimulate the internal organs, promoting healthy digestion and encouraging detoxification. Another pose to do before breakfast.
Wake up. Roll out a mat. Breathe. Practice. Then Smile.
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