Yoga Postures for Men and Women at the Office

[HolisticWellness.com]

1. Stand up and do a swan dive alllll the way down until you are reaching your arms for the floor. Breathe there for a full minute, breathing into the tight areas in your legs.

2. Swoop back up and arch back are far as you can, with your arms high over your head. Breathe there for thirty seconds. You will not break-the spine is meant to bend forward and backwards.

3. Bring you arms down in front of you and bend your legs until you are sitting on an imaginary chair. Feel your butt burn, stretch those arms out in front of you. Breathe here for a minute.

4. Stand up and begin #1 again and cycle through these asanas (yoga postures) maybe five times. Do this a few times a day and watch your physique improve, your mood lift, and your productivity at work increase.

[Mark Lapierre]

Just to add a little to exercise 1. My yoga instructors have always said that whenever doing exercises like a forward bend you should draw the muscles of your abdomen inward, back toward your spine, and hold them there. This helps support your spine and takes some of the strain off your back muscles.

Also tighten the muscles in your thighs to draw up your kneecap to support and protect your knees.

Here are some simple exercises for your neck and shoulders. Important for all of us who work in front of a computer all day.

[genie]

One of my yoga instructors recommended My Daily Yoga, which includes some excellent resources for carpal tunnel syndrome and RSI, as well. It has some excellent at-your-desk asanas.

[stephencp]

Genie,
Great site. thanks.

stephen
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