There are three components to healthy ankles—stability, flexibility and mobility—and yoga can help to improve all three. When you practice yoga, you strengthen your feet, ankles and lower legs in all of the standing poses and in the transitions between them. This is a great start but I’m also going to give you some extra poses and a 15-minute video to take it to the next level.
7-Way Hips: 7 Mobility Exercises To Unlock Tight Hips
Sitting destroys healthy hips. Your body’s primary objective is to conserve energy for survival and reproduction. It’s therefore constantly adapting so that you can do the things you do most often, as efficiently as possible. Unfortunately, if you spend a lot of time sitting, you sacrifice a significant amount of joint mobility, especially in the hips.
Read More15-Minute Beginner Yoga For Mobility Routine
The Yoga 15 Mobility workouts are based on a style of yoga called viñyasa or flow. In each of the routines, we move through a continuous series of poses, synchronising breath and movement. In this style of yoga, the transition between postures is as important as the poses themselves and the breath is primary. The sequences are relatively fast-paced, making this one of the most advanced challenges in the series.
Read More3 Sidebends To Relieve Tightness In The Upper Body
I’ve just finished writing an article for The Inertia on the importance of sidebends for surfers, and it reminded me not only how great they feel but also how rarely I practice them, in preference of backbends, forward bends, twists and hip openers.
Read More3 Simple Twists To Increase Spinal Mobility
Twisting poses feel great. Especially if you suffer from inflexibility in the upper body, poor posture or recurring lower back, shoulder or neck pain. ere are 3 twisting poses that are easy to do. Try to do at least one pose, 5 days a week, to keep your spine supple and healthy.
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