Aug 30, 2024
Malaika Arora Swears By Chakravakasana To Relieve Stress
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It’s Monday – time to make our weekly to-do list and achieve those goals. Bollywood actor and co-founder of Sarva Yoga, Malaika Arora does this too, and understands that the task list may cause involuntary stress.
Malaika has shared a yoga tutorial titled ‘1-minute yoga to ease stress’ to help you relax and motivate you to take on this new challenge of the week.
What is the asana?
Malaika’s video tutorial features the cat-cow stretch, which is also known as chakravakasana in yoga.
Why practice it?
Stress is our body’s response to different types of pressure – emotional, mental, and physical. If left unchecked for a long time, it can lead to mental or physical illness, and harm our mind and body. Exercises like cat-cow pose may help to ease the stress.
What does it do?
The cat-cow pose involves moving our spine from a rounded position to an arched one. It targets our spine, lower back, and abdominal area, and helps to release tension.
Cat-cow pose benefits
The cat-cow pose is a basic stretch, commonly practiced to help improve our body’s balance and posture.
Cat-cow pose benefits
It also helps to maintain a healthy spine, and above all, makes for a good stress-reliever stretch.
The cat-cow pose video was part of Malaika’s move of the week, which is a weekly video series where she shares a series of asanas and related benefits on social media.