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Summary: Yoga offers a variety of techniques and practices that may help to reduce blood pressure, including pranayama, which concerns the control of the breath. Find out how to use yoga to promote relaxation and lower stress with help from an advanced yoga instructor in this free video on lowering blood pressure with yoga.
Calli Ryals is an advanced yoga instructor who is 500-hour Yoga Alliance certified. She is a former NCAA All-American gymnast who has skills in trampoline, acrobatics, dance, surfing...read more
"So, if you have high blood pressure, yoga offers many different techniques and practices that may help alleviate and bring down your blood pressure. Yoga practice is a great way to reverse a lot of the stress that you deal with on a regular day basis. Bringing that parasympathetic nervous system back in to balance. So, there's a few techniques. One of them is pranayama which is the control of the breath. Pranayama is a great way to bring your mind and body back in to balance, keep you grounded and you can do this everyday. Take five, ten minutes out of your day just to sit down and take a few breaths. The practices that you can do on your own, pranayama for breath control, asana practice, forward bend, and inversion such as shoulder stance. Also there's so many different styles of yoga. So if you ask for a specific class that offers relaxation, sometimes they're called restorative classes, that's a great idea too."