Yoga for High Blood Pressure
Improve your circulation by adding these yoga for high blood pressure poses into your daily practice.
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6 Yoga Poses for High Blood Pressure
Recent studies have shown the benefit that yoga can have on hypertension. Here's a gentle practice to get you started.
Bound Angle Pose
Bound Angle Pose, or Baddha Konasana, opens the deepest part of the hip muscles.
Seated Forward Bend
Fold into Paschimottanasana to help your distracted mind—and your hamstrings—unwind.
Legs Up the Wall Pose
There's a general consensus among modern yogis that Viparita Karani or Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose may have the power to cure whatever ails you.
Downward-Facing Dog
One of yoga's most widely recognized poses, Adho Mukha Svanasana strengthens the core and improves circulation, while providing a delicious, full-body stretch.
Bridge Pose
Setu Bandha Sarvangasana can be whatever you need—energizing, rejuvenating, or luxuriously restorative.
Standing Forward Bend
Uttanasana will wake up your hamstrings and soothe your mind.
Corpse Pose
Savasana is a pose of total relaxation—making it one of the most challenging.
Dolphin Pose
Dolphin Pose strengthens the core, arms, and legs, while also nicely opening the shoulders.
Reclining Hero Pose
Lay Virasana back and to take the stretch in the thighs and ankles up a notch.
Hero Pose
Virasana is a balm for tired legs at the end of the day, as well as an alternative to Lotus for seated meditation.
Reclining Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose I
Oh, your aching back? Or maybe you can't crack those tight hamstrings. Supta Padangusthasana I or Reclining Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose I is for you.
Head-to-Knee Pose
Janu Sirsasana, or Head-to-Knee Pose, is appropriate for students of any level and melds a forward bend with a spinal twist.