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Yoga poses to stop snoring Snoring is a common problem with many people. The causes for snoring vary from being overweight to thick neck, tonsillitis, stress especially mental tension, consumption of alcohol, tobacco, smoking, faulty eating habits and certain intoxicating medications. When the breathing passages are temporarily blocked due to some obstruction snoring is the result. Although most of the times snoring is not particularly harmful to health besides causing a nuisance for the other person sleeping in the room, it is now also associated with some major diseases conditions like heart diseases and hypertension. Yoga will help to relieve the snoring problem to large extent, try the following asana.
- Reciting the mantra OM - Sit in sukhasana on a yoga mat keeping your head and spine straight and upright. Place both the hands on your knees in jyanamudra. Relax your whole body, close your eyes and recite the word OM loudly. This should be done in two steps – first deep sounds of 0000 then followed by mmmm.
- Simhagarjan asana or Roaring lion poses - Sit on the floor in vajrasana with your knees apart and parallel to your shoulders. Place your palms on the floor between the spaces in two knees. See to it that the fingers point towards the body and the base of the palm in the opposite direction. Sitting in this position lean forward and gently tilt the head back. Gaze at the center of the eyebrow and inhale slowly, open the mouth and extend the tongue out. When you exhale produce a sound like a roar of a lion “aach” with the mouth wide. Relax and close the mouth and breathe in. Repeat this 10-12 times. This same asana can also be done with little modification in the sitting position. Instead of sitting in vajrasana, bend your legs at the knees and place your feet between the crotch area in such a way that your weight is mainly on your toes and at the same time you can take support of your heels. Place your hands between the space between two knees with your face forward and tongue out. Make a roaring sound of that like a lion keeping your mouth open.
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