Downward Dog position is one of the important and easiest yoga postures and carries a multitude of health benefits. It helps stretching your spine so relieves you of painful backaches in the long run. It calms your mind and improves your concentration.
It relieves headaches, indigestion, stress, insomnia and strengthens arms and legs. It is also good for high blood pressure and asthma patients. But, apart from all the health benefits, there are a lot of beauty benefits which can be derived if one practices this yoga position everyday.
Let us look at the beauty benefits. Check out here for a step by step instruction on how to perform the downward dog position.
- It uplifts the face and firms the skin giving it a natural glow as all the blood flows to the face when you are bent down in the downward position.
- Since there is more blood flow towards the eyes, your eyes look more bright and alive.
- It is a perfect cure for dark circles and puffy eyes.
- There’s more blood flow towards the scalp too which helps in providing nutrition to the hair follicles and promotes hair growth.
- Double chin disappears in gradual time and the neck firms up.
- The skin tone and color improves and the discoloration disappears leaving an even color all over the face and neck.
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Anonymous says
September 7, 2013 at 2:19 PMhi swati….
nice info .thanks for sharing …I will definitely try this …
Coral crue says
September 8, 2013 at 9:14 AMI love these tips, Swati. keep them coming
HARSH SHAH says
September 8, 2013 at 7:47 AMHey i am 18 years boy my whole skin is fair but my hand and fave skin is turned into dark what i do for my face and hand skin to turn them dark like whole body plz suggest me swati and reply me as soon as possible my email id is harshshah419@gmail.com