Yoga

7-Day At Home Yoga Challenge! With great yoga routines for flexibility, strength and better posture!

Free 7-Day At Home Yoga Challenge

I really need this. After a two weeks of moving, basically being exhausted and thinking that putting on jeans is a luxury, I am willing to make time for some self-care in my life! Number one on the list: exercise! Specifically: yoga. If you’re also in desperate need for exercise right now, but can’t seem to find the commitment to do a tougher workout every day, then this free 7-day at home yoga challenge to improve flexibility, strength and balance might be for you too! I’ll share some routines that I’ve tried in the past and some tips on where to find free yoga videos online!

7-Day At Home Yoga Challenge! With great yoga routines for flexibility, strength and better posture!
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What Is Yoga?

Yoga is not exactly exercise, but I find it a little bit hard to describe. Here’s the definition I found on the Google:

” a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practised for health and relaxation.”

Thus, yoga is a holistic practice that can benefit your physical, mental and emotional health.


Benefits Of Yoga

Here are some of the many benefits of yoga according to Healthline:

  • you become more mindful of how you treat your body
  • better sleep quality
  • can help improve flexibility and posture
  • can help you stress less
  • some types of yoga can help you burn more calories, thus lose weight
  • beneficial for your cardiovascular health
  • can increase strength


The Yoga Challenge

The challenge for the next seven days is pretty simple: do 30 minutes of yoga every day.

Whether you do those 30 minutes of yoga in the morning or break the 30 minutes into three 10-minute yoga sessions when you’re having a break from work or other obligations doesn’t matter.

The point is to sneak in some yoga in your everyday life! It will make your week so much better.

The routines you’ll find below are all free and can be found on Youtube, but if you want to do something more exclusive and structured, you can get started with Premium yoga at Grokker. You can use this link to get a 14-Day trial to all programs and workout videos for free.

See the goal for this yoga challenge is to get into the habit of doing something good for the mind and body every single day.

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Morning Yoga: Best Stretches And Routines

Morning yoga! It’s the thing that has made my life so much better over the last few years. Here I’m sharing some of the best morning yoga stretches and my favorite routines to do first thing after I wake up. Plus the benefits of starting your day with some exercise, there are many. Most of the yoga poses are suitable for beginners, can be done at home and take 10 minutes or less!

Morning yoga! Here are some of the best morning yoga stretches and my favorite routines to do first thing after I wake up. Plus the benefits of starting your day with yoga, there are many. Most of the yoga workouts are suitable for beginners, can be done at home and take 10 minutes or less!

Okay, I’ll admit it. As a mom of an almost 2-year old, most days I don’t have the energy to lift my finger and do a “proper” workout in the morning. I feel really good after, but I simply can’t seem to motivate myself upfront to do anything jump-y or more intense after waking up. Luckily, there’s always that little voice that tells me: You can still do some yoga.

And then I say: Well, you’re also right. I don’t feel like it, but I can use a morning yoga stretch. 

Sometimes I trick myself and do an entire 10-minute yoga sequence from Youtube. And it turns out to not be a stretch sequence, but power yoga. The one you do for weight loss. Well, thank you for the confusion.

And then once that whole monologue in my head and the morning yoga routine are done – I’m so happy I did it. I did something really good for my body and mind and it’s only 6:30 AM.

I’ve been practicing yoga for a while now and because I know how precious it is, I try to always make time for it in the morning. Before we get to my favorite yoga poses and the 3 short, but magical morning yoga videos, let me share the yoga benefits I’ve experienced until now.


Morning Yoga Benefits

You’ll feel more open. Your body’s probably very tight in the morning and most of us are sitting for long hours every day, believe it or not, 10 minutes of stretching in the morning can make you feel brand new.

Pain Relief. If you’re like me and struggle often with back and neck pain, you’re about to find out how truly healing 10 minutes of morning yoga can be. Practicing early in the day will reduce pain and make you less grumpy, so you can actually enjoy the day.

Yoga can wake you up. Some of the stretches below are energizing poses that can raise your heartbeat and your blood pressure, and make you feel more awake. (at the same time: caution to everyone with high blood pressure!)

Yoga calms down your mind. If you’re starting the day thinking about the million things you have to do, what can go wrong and the things that scare you – doing yoga is a great way to break that off. You will instead focus on something else – your body, your health, the things that are good in your life. Practicing for 10 minutes every day definitely makes me more positive and happy.

Disclaimer: Please consult a medical professional before starting this or any other new exercise regimen.

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