Asthma and Yoga

Asthma is a chronic ailment involving classic symptoms like coughing, wheezing, tightness of the chest, and difficulty in breathing due to the body’s adverse reactions to triggers (physically or emotionally). Aside from counting on your conventional medication in order to achieve long lasting relief (which can also take long before it happens) and greater control over your condition there are also various alternatives that you can try, one of them being yoga.

Hailing from India, yoga is a system which combines both physical and mental training in order to promote wellbeing for individuals of all ages. It involves a combination body postures or “Asanas” and “Pranayama” which is the art of breath control in order to deal with various conditions including stress, circulatory and respiratory problems and improve over all health.

Practicing and mastering the yoga exercises including the poses, breathing, and the relaxation techniques put you in greater control over your mind and body making you feel more relaxed and allows you to breather easier no matter the circumstance. Aside from that, on a more research oriented note, several studies have also found yoga to be a powerful complimentary therapy to reduce the frequency and severity of asthma attacks as well as decrease dependence on the conventional medication being used.

Consistent practice of yoga postures along with Pranayama increases the lung’s capacity, airflow, stamina and oxygen efficiency. The back bending postures involved in yoga have been known to open the chest, improving both lung and heart function. Even during attacks, yoga also has postures that deal with both problems in inhaling and exhaling, while the inverted postures drain excess mucus from the lungs and have been known to balance the immune system.

Pranayama cultivates the body’s ability to maintain a relaxed and controlled breath that can prevent or reduce asthma attacks. For those who are interested in learning more about the techniques, poses and stretches involved in yoga it would be advisable to seek the help from expert yogist in order to get the specific exercise that can benefit your condition. Dirga Pranayama for example can be a good place to start since it is good for almost all conditions and will help instill slow deep breathing patterns. There are various other techniques which can help you achieve relief over a variety of symptoms that might be worsening your condition.

By gaining a deeper level of understanding and control of all the respiratory organs you will become more aware every time something seems amiss, allowing you to recognize even the most minute symptoms which would then give you ample time to take care of the problem. Remember that yoga is never a substitute for your conventional medication, but it can be a very good complimentary therapy, allowing you to experience long term relief and recover that much faster.

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