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Asanas to help you breathe better & withstand Covid
8 ASANAS TO HELP YOU IF YOU HAVE (HAD) COVID JULY 2021
Do these asanas along with the video.
These asanas can help you to improve air inflow into the affected areas of your lungs and help you learn to use the unused areas of your lungs.
These asanas can help to rebuild your lung capacity after Covid and prevent pulmonary fibrosis.
They can be done standing, sitting or lying down.
See which position you can manage to do them from.
Don't Stress yourself while trying to do them!
Each asana consists of 3 deep inhalations and full exhalations, then 2-10 minutes of rest, standing, sitting or lying down, with eyes closed. This is 1 set.
Do 3 sets of each asana.
Inhalation with your mouth and eyes open, synchronising your movement with your breath. (see video)
Exhalation through your mouth with your eyes gently closed along with the movement back to your starting position (see video).
Do 3 or 4 of these asanas at a time, several times a day.
Your lungs contain 4-5 litres of air, all of which need to be exchanged with fresh air every minute.
With diaphragmatic breathing, you can increase your air and oxygen intake in a few breaths and speed up the exchange of air, helping you to get more oxygen into all parts of your body.
Healthy people usually breathe 300-350 ml per breath.
When you have covid, pneumonia or pulmonary fibrosis this can reduce to 100 -200 ml per breath.
With diaphragmatic breathing this can Increase to 850 ml of air per breath
Dr. Manik Hiranandani
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