Yoga poses to help sleep apnea is given Ushtrasana Ardha matsyendrasana Bujangasana Savasana Simha Gargana Ujjayi Pranayama Jala Netti

1. Yoga Poses for sleep apnea

2. Yoga poses for sleep apnea
Ushtrasana
Ardha matsyendrasana
Bujangasana
Savasana
Simha Gargana
Ujjayi Pranayama
Jala Netti

3. Ushtrasana
■ Step 1: Kneel down with the straight spine
■ Step 2: Keep your upper ankles to touch the floor
■ Step 3: Slowly raise your hands and keep the palm of your hands to touch the palm of the
feet
■ Step 4: Inhale and exhale for 5 times
■ Step 5: Then slowly come back to knee down position then relax

4. Ardha matsyendrasana
■ Step 1: Sit two legs crossed
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Step 2: Keep the right leg as it is and raise the left knee and place the left leg’s palm in front of the right
knee
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Step 3: Now take your right arm and hold the left leg’s ankles
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Step 4: Keep the left hand’s palm behind the back and the face should face the left hand’s palm side.
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Step 5: Hold on the position as long as comfortable
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Step 6: Relax for sometime
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Step 7: Repeat the same posture for the other side.

5. Bujangasana
■ Step 1: Lie on the floor with a downward face.
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Step 2: Keep your tiptoes of your feet touching the floor
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Step 3: Keep your hands below the shoulder
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Step 4: Lift the shoulders by pressing the palm of hands against the floor and bend your back and
keep the face upward
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Step 5: Hold the pose as long as possible then relax

6. Savasana
■ Step 1: Lie on your back
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Step 2: Keep your legs apart
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Step 3: Place your arms on the floor and keep the palms facing upwards
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Step 4: Concentrate on the breath
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Step 5: Keep the position as long as comfortable.

7. Simha Garjana
■ Step 1: Sit in Vajrasana with a straight spine ( Kneel down and keep your butt on the palm of the feet)
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Step 2: Keep your hand palms in front of your knees
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Step 3: Take a deep breath
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Step 4: Fully open your mouth and keep your tongue out.
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Step 5: Roar like a lion and exhale
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Step 6: Hold the pose for 30 seconds
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Step 7: You can do 4 to 6 times of this pose
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8. Ujjayi pranayama
■ Step 1: Sit in Vajrasana with a straight spine ( Kneel down and keep your butt on the palm of the
feet)
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Step 2: Keep your hand palms in front of your knees
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Step 3: Take a deep breath
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Step 4: Fully open your mouth and keep your tongue out.
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Step 5: Roar like a lion and exhale
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Step 6: Hold the pose for 30 seconds
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Step 7: You can do 4 to 6 times of this pose

9. Jala Netti
■ Step 1: Add lukewarm water and half-a-tea-spoon of salt to the neti pot.
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Step 2: Take neti pot in the right hand and insert the nozzle into your right nostril. (Mouth should be
open for breathing)
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Step 3: Tilt your head gently back, forth and sidewards.So that the water from the pot enters into the
right nostril and exit through the left nostril.
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Step 4: Repeat the same process in the left nostril.

10. Thank You!
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