Monsoon is the time when you suffer the most from several infections and diseases, add to that an ongoing pandemic that creates havoc to your immune system. It also makes people anxious about their health making them wonder will they get infected or, is there a chance of getting re-affected by Coronavirus after recovery?
Do you know that doing yoga and pranayama can help boost your immunity to a great extent? When you think of exercise, all you think is doing complicated exercises that leave you fatigued, and you end up sweating buckets. Instead, you can opt for exercises that you can do within the four walls of your home without using any equipment, all you need is just a little space. Also, the monsoons can make your plans of taking a long leisurely walk amidst nature go down the drain since the weather is finicky at best. Walking and avoiding slushy puddles seem like a chore. But whatever may be the weather outside or the situation (COVID-19 pandemic, learn more about what is SARS virus and its structure, here) you can always exercise at home.
Roll out your mat and get in sync with your breathing, and you pretty much end up enhancing your immunity with two ancient, time-tested exercises, yoga, and pranayama. The pandemic should not be an excuse to eat unhealthily and sit put in one place. Instead, practice yoga and pranayama to boost immunity and maintain fitness during the rainy season. As the country juggles tried to seek normalcy amidst this chaos, trying to embrace the ‘the new normal,’ you can do your bit to stay home and stay healthy by reducing stress and staying active.
How to Prevent COVID-19 in Monsoon with Immunity-Boosting Exercises? Top 5 Asanas
- Shalabasana- Locust Pose
The Shalabhasana or the locust pose offers many benefits apart from boosting your immunity and help fight most infections and diseases such as strengthens the lower body, provides relief from different types of backache, and resolves issues with the stomach and bowels.
Here is how you do it,
- Lie on your stomach with your arms stretched before you in a relaxed manner.
- Keep your knees and feet straight together.
- As you inhale, lift your arms and legs together.
- Raise your head as you lift your chest off the floor.
- Hold the posture for a count of 10.
- Anjaneyasana- Low lunge pose
This pose offers a great stretch to the hips, front of the leg, and the muscles around the knee, arms, neck, and chest. It also activates the core muscles and bolsters your immunity.
Here is how you do it,
- Start with the Samasthithi pose.
- Drop your knee and extend out your left leg.
- Align your right knee by keeping your legs wide apart with your right ankle.
- Bring your pelvis downward.
- Bring your arms up.
- Bend your torso while you form an arch, the pose resembling a moon.
- Bakasana – Crow Pose
It is a great balancing pose, but it needs the patience to master. It is a great one to strengthen your abdominal walls. Strengthen your arms and wrists with this asana and practice it every day in this lockdown phase to boost your immunity.
- Begin on all fours with as place your wrists and knees on the ground.
- Then align your elbows as you spread your fingers.
- Bring your knees close to your triceps.
- Shift your body weight to your hands as you lean forward.
- Gradually move your feet towards the ground and try to balance on your hands.
- Focus at a point before you and hold the asana.
- Tadasana- Mountain Pose
Tadasana or mountain pose is a great stress-busting pose and, hence one of the best poses apt for the COVID-era when everyone is trying to stay healthy and beat the persistent palpable anxiousness and depression, also enhance your immunity.
Here’s how you can do the asana,
- Stand straight while you keep your back straight.
- Stand straight as you bring your palms together, interlocking together.
- Stretch your hands up as you stretch.
- Look up and bring your head back towards your shoulders.
- Hold the pose for 5-10 seconds and repeat it at least once or twice.
- Krupa Chaturanga Dandasana- Four-Limbed Staff Pose on Elbows
This asana resembles that of a push-up and integrates your hands and limbs to make a posture. It is also called the four-Limbed Staff Pose. This is one of the best torso-strengthening poses, and it works on your abdominal muscles, making it a comprehensive strengthening pose, not to forget it also an immune-system bolstering-pose.
Here’s how you can do the asana,
- Start the asana by moving on all fours keeping your palms under the shoulders and knees right below hips.
- Lift your knees that are just off the ground and align your shoulder to move into a plank pose.
- Drop your elbows on to the mat.
- Engage your core while you align your elbows with your shoulders.
This monsoon, ensure that you keep your immunity high by eating right and exercising right. A weak immune system will mean you may be more prone to all kinds of monsoon-related problems water-borne infections are also rife and make you more vulnerable to these infections and ailments. Yoga is a great way to keep you in great shape and strengthen your immunity. Follow the age-old and time-tested protocol and know-how to prevent COVID-19 in monsoon with immunity-boosting exercises with élan. Take care.
