Getting A Handle On Your Blood Pressure

normal range blood pressure

For controlling your normal range blood pressure, there are two effective yoga exercises that helps lower the blood pressure:

Inverted Yoga

The gravity on the body is reversed with Inverted yoga. The biggest changes when performing Inverted Yoga is due to the circulation. The abdomen and legs are raised higher than the heart with Inverted poses.

Lengthening up through the legs and keep them very active so your spine opens and the entire body actively involved in the pose.

The cause is simply due to the force of gravity when reversed and venous return is much greater.

Normally, the muscles of the calf and other skeletal muscles in the lower extremities must contract in order to pump unoxygenated blood and waste back to the heart through the veins.

In inverted poses, gravity causes the blood to flow easily back through the veins and this brings the low heart rate high blood pressure in the feet to a minimum. This in effect gives skeletal muscles a chance to rest.

In Inverted poses, drainage of blood and waste from the lower body back to the heart is increased and disorders such as varicose veins and swollen ankles are relieved.

Rhythmic Breathing

It's time to learn about breathing, because inhaling and exhaling has the power to nourish the body and calm the mind.

Not just any old breathing will do. If you're like most people, you take shallow breaths, pull in your stomach when you inhale and never empty your lungs of carbon dioxide when you exhale.

Here's the physiological explanation: Long, slow breaths are more efficient than short, fast ones.

To take in a good breath, your lungs must first be basically empty. Thus the key to efficient breathing lies in exhaling completely. The upper chest begins with a full exhale, then goes to the mid chest area, and leaves off with tightening of the abs.

After exhaling expect to draw in a deep breath of rich oxygen to nourish your cells.