SIMPLE MORNING EXERCISES

 Good mornings begin after a good night's sleep! 

Try to get up from bed by turning towards your right side, fold your legs at knees and hip, also your arms folded and make your arms like a pillow for a minute, mimicking a baby in mother's womb, and slowly rise signifying a rebirth as per Oriental philosophies.

As we become older, we are also prone to diseases, one of the commonest diseases is arthritis. Even though there are many varieties of arthritis, most common one is rhematic type. It is a metabolic disorder but it gets manifested in our joints, starting with smaller joints of our fingers, later on to bigger joints like the weight bearing joints; knees and ankles.

We can do some simple exercise for our smaller joints; in yoga we call it 'pavanamukthasana' series; it means exercises that clears the passages of vata through our nadis or astral tube. On the physical body such exercises help us to eliminate the metabolic toxins which gets deposited in our joints overnight inactivity due to our sleep. 

This is simple flexion and extension of all our body joints including the small joints of hands and feet.

Another exercise we can practice is 'kapalabhathi,' kapalabhathi is active and forceful expiration followed by passive inhalation. This also helps to eliminate any build-up of toxic wastes in the form of gasses in our system, especially excess carbon dioxide. 

Kapalabhathi also help to reduce any viral or bacterial infection.