Dr. Mickey Mehta – Global leading holistic health guru and a corporate life coach guides on holistic wellness, says, ‘life moves in cycles. Sun take hours twenty-four, rain clouds periodically open their doors, the moon goes through phases never fills up soon and tides time to time touch the shores. Cycles and seasons heal you with reasons, embrace them, be aware know mother nature will always care. Winter season is generally a time for celebration for many and many get into depression.
Celebration because its cold, its snow… its Christmas, New Year and humans want to live it up. Certainly, after the autumn, the fall the life force on earth is a little low. All we need to do is empower ourselves and generate a lot of energy from within with a lot of breathing, dynamic breathing, exercise, dynamic exercise and of course spa treatments. Bathtub steams saunas also work but the best what you can do with your body is challenge it in a very calibrated way is what will bring about the big transformation and good stead in winters increase your immunity.
The best opportunity to nourish your body is winters as well so exercises ought to be done ideally in the morning. Of course, in winters our body temperatures also drop a little bit along with the temperature of the environment. The body wants to sleep a little more to recover, to feel cosy, feel comfortable we must add couple of hours in the bed prepone our sleeping time prepone our waking up time and start your day with hot beverages.
In India, we call them kadhas which we can make out of tulsi tea, lemongrass, mint leaves, add ginger, pepper, and organic jaggery to it. If you still want to make the drink very potent you can add saffron and clarified butter, A2 cow’s ghee. The workout should start with lot of twisting, side bends, forward-backward bending and also stretching your body upwards like in ‘tadasana’ up on your heel and then do the ballet walk back and forth.
Then you can do a small spot jog circling your arms forward and backwards. Also, you can do chest expansions while you are doing your soft jog so chest expansion lateral hands laterally to be expanded as you breathe in and breath out make sure your rhythmic breathing is on and now increase the speed of the walk brings it to a run now then get it into a spot sprint then slow down.
Recover your breath, do forward-backward breathing in breath out all the toxic gases. Get into mountain position become a serpentine take a deep breath out and again get into mountain position. Get your right leg in the front as in on your marks get set go, go back then your left leg in the front and back 10 to 15 times so mountain, serpentine, serpentine, mountain. Right leg front back left leg front back after which lie down on your back.
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Touch both your hands behind take a deep breath as you breath out hug your knees tight get your knees close in your chest hold it and rock your body up and down 15 to 20 times post that do your hip raises pushing your butt upwards with legs folded with the knee side of the ground and turn around get into a plank position. The plank with straight hands gets your right hand up down left hand up down right leg front back left leg front back.
Thereafter you can once again stand up and do your jumping jacks. Make sure your jumping jacks are very slow, vey bouncy and breathe out each time you go up to clap. Your clap is a must the sound of the clap will uplift you as well. After that once again get into a twist side, bend side then you can do a 12 ‘surya namaskars’ and for the last time down on the floor.
Do your double hugs for your stomach and back at least 15 times then drop dead and lie down let your breath cool down, get your breath back into rhythm. Relax your breath, body into ‘shavasana’ calm down reorient yourself that your breath will come back into rhythm.
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