4 Yoga Poses to FIGHT DEPRESSION!

To whoever is reading this, trust me no one is coming for you!

There will be days when you will feel like everything is dead inside you. There will be days when you fall into the vicious cycle of committing more mistakes and taking more bad decisions. 

The Warrior within You

But............................................!

Today if you wake up and don't like the person you have become , you can take things in your hands and change them.

The thing that has never been taught us is, "We are our own heroes and only we can save ourselves!"

Dealing with depression and other life challenges are just a means to turn you into the phoenix of your life. You will rise from the ashes and people who brought you down, time and again, will be dazzled by you. Take care of yourself and be the warrior that you were supposed to be.

In the end, Yoga is just a means to delve deeper into our body, mind and soul. Take it slow, take it easy and take on the world!

Here are 4 yoga poses to feel the fighter in you and help with our inner battles:

I. Veerbhadrasana - Warrior 1

Warrior 1

  Pose breakdown structure:

• Take your left leg in the front keeping it perpendicular to the ground.

• Take the right leg at the back with a slight bend at the knee

• Raise your hands up towards the ceiling 

• Keep breathing

• Slowly come out of the pose by breathing slowly 

• Synchronize your hand moving down with the breath

• Repeat the same alternating the legs

II. Veerbhadrasana - Warrior 2

     Pose breakdown structure:

Warrior 2

• Start with standing straight in a wide legged stance 

• Turn the left leg foot to the left by 90 degrees 

• Keep your body and spine straight

• Keep breathing and bend your left leg so that the lower leg is perpendicular to the ground

• Slowly take both your hands and straighten them out by your side and look in the front hand direction

• Keep breathing and spend sometime in this posture

• Synchronise your hand moving down with the breath to come out of the pose

• Repeat the same alternating the legs

III. Veerbhadrasana - Warrior 3

     Pose breakdown structure:

Warrior 3

• Start with the standing position and joining your hands in the center of your heart 

• Slowly take your left leg and lift it off the ground

• Simultaneously bringing your upper body down and ending up parallel to the ground

• Slowly take both your hands and straighten them out by your side or in front of you 

• Keep breathing and spend sometime in this posture

• Slowly take your hands at the  center of your heart 

• Synchronize your breath  with  moving your leg down to come out of the pose

• Repeat the same alternating the legs

IV. Veerbhadrasana - Reverse Warrior 

     Pose breakdown structure:

• Follow the steps in Warrior 2

  

  Reverse Warrior

• Slowly take the right hand straight towards the ceiling and look up at the ceiling

• Place the left hand on your left thigh

• Keep your body and spine straight 

• Keep breathing and spend sometime in this posture

• Slowly come out of your pose synchronizing your movements of the arms and legs

• Repeat the same alternating the legs

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