Cure your headache with these yoga poses!

Cure your headache with these yoga poses!

Jun 21, 2016, 11:14 AM IST

Cure your headache with these yoga poses!

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Five best yoga poses to reduce headaches!

Yoga is good for overall-health. It is also one of the best ways to get rid of nasty headaches, which can be caused a variety of reasons such as tension in your neck, tight shoulders, or back pain, etc.

Here are a few yoga poses that can help alleviate or treat headaches:

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Big Toe pose or Padangusthasana

Big Toe pose or Padangusthasana

The big toe pose or the Padangusthasana is an easy yoga pose that will help you to stretch all your muscles from head to toe and keep blood pressure under control. It gently lengthens and strengthens your hamstrings. It calms you down and cures headache and insomnia.

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Corpse pose or Savasana

Corpse pose or Savasana

This pose is one of the easiest yoga poses that gives you total relaxation. It calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression. It reduces headache, fatigue and insomnia.

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Dolphin pose

Dolphin pose

The dolphin pose is an excellent pose to strengthen the arms and legs. It stretches the shoulders and helps relieve stress and menstrual discomfort. It also helps relieve headache, insomnia and back pain.

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Bridge pose or Setu Bandha Sarvangasana

Bridge pose or Setu Bandha Sarvangasana

This pose reduces anxiety, fatigue, backache, headache, and insomnia while it is also energizing, rejuvenating, or luxuriously restorative.

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Reclining Hero pose or Supta Virasana

Reclining Hero pose or Supta Virasana

Although this pose is slightly difficult, it provides many benefits for various areas such as the groin, thighs, abdomen, knees, ankles and so on. It stretches the abdomen, thighs and deep hip flexors, knees, and ankles. It helps relieve headache and the symptoms of menstrual pain. It also improves digestion.

By: Salome Phelamei