So we’ve talked about yoga to help with stress and to counteract sitting at a desk, but what about yoga for digestion? Yoga originated thousands of years ago in India for many spiritual, mental, and physical intentions.
One of these intentions is to increase Agni (Sanskrit for “fire”), which is used in Ayurveda to refer to digestive processes in the body.
In other words, what you eat is not the only factor of healthy digestion; how you move can impact digestion too. “A regular yoga practice can be a great asset to our digestive systems,” explained Erica Zellner, MS, CNS, and health coach at Parsley Health. “For one, stress can cause the body to struggle to digest food, leading to GI symptoms like bloating, discomfort, constipation, or.
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