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Yoga Good For Lowering High Blood Pressure And keep Hypertension Under Control

Yoga is good for lowering high blood pressure and can play an important role in keeping hypertension under control. Let’s understand how high blood pressure can affect people’s lives, before we look at the various asanas to lower high BP.

High Blood Pressure: High blood pressure or hypertension, as its known medically, happens due to abnormally high pressure in the arteries. If the pressure is very high, it can cause cardiac damage, and in some cases, can even be fatal. High blood pressure is often caused because of tension, stress and emotional problems. Sometimes high blood pressure is triggered off because of malfunctioning of the kidneys or the endocrine glands or because of arterial problems. The signs and symptoms of high blood pressure are ringing in the ears, pounding headache, hazy vision, giddiness and hazy vision.

How Yoga Can Help Lower Blood Pressure: While yoga cannot be the complete cure for high blood pressure, yoga asanas or postures as well as the breath work of pranayama can be used to prevent the damage to the heart, liver, lungs and the kidneys. Yoga postures are slow and fluid. So they put very less strain on the body and helps the body to relax. Through breathing techniques, you can breathe in more oxygen, which pumps more nutrients into the blood and rejuvenates the body. A good cure for stress and tension, yoga can help lower high blood pressure.

Benefits Of Yoga Asanas: While yoga has a positive effect on people with high blood pressure, it has the following physiological benefits –

• Yoga is a good form of exercise and can help in controlling weigh problems.

• It is refreshing and energizing.

• It decreases the pulse rates and increases one’s immunity levels.

• It helps to cure insomnia and relaxes the entire body.

Yoga Poses For Lowering High Blood pressure: Here are a few poses that help lower high blood pressure. You might want to consult a doctors and yoga teacher before you begin your yoga regimen.

Bidalasana (Cat posture): This posture is good for coordinating breath work and movement of the body. Avoid this posture if you have a back pain or an injury.

Sukhasana (Easy posture): This meditative posture is done after the Shavasana (Corpse pose). It slows down metabolism, stretches the spine and calms the mind.

Ardha Matsyendrasana (Half Spinal Twist posture): It strengthens and stretches the spine. This posture does a whole world of good to your liver, adrenal glands and the kidneys.

Anuloma Viloma (Alternate Nostril Breathing Technique): This is a breathing technique that helps to lower high blood pressure.

Balasana (Child’s posture), Shavasana (Corpse posture), Makarasana (Crocodile posture) as well as forward bends are also recommended for thos who want to lower their blood pressure.

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