Yoga Back Stretching Exercises

Any exercise to be effective must have a focus and serve a purpose.

Pain usually focuses the attention and stretching exercises that help you feel relief serve an immediate purpose.

Below are  yoga stretching exercises to helps you relieve back pain. Remember to always consult your physician before you start an exercise program. Back pain could be sign of some serious health conditions.

Having said that. A study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that those who take yoga or stretching classes are more likely to manage their symptoms and reduce their pain medications.

Cat and Cow Pose

This is one of the most popular yoga poses for back tension and pain relief. It can be done as warm up or during a routine.

Start on all fours making sure that you do not experience any pain in your wrist or knees. Exhale and round your back away from the floor to a cow pose. Inhale and arch your back toward the floor into a cat pose. Hold this position for a few seconds and return to the cow pose.

Visualize that you are relaxing deeper with each repetition.

Five Benefits of Flexibility

Five Benefits of Flexibility




  1. Greater freedom of movement and improved static postures
  2. Your ability to mentally and physically relax.
  3. Muscle tension relief including painful trigger points
  4. Help you recover faster from a workout
  5. Done correctly help you reduce the risks of injury



Physical Definition of Flexibility

Definition of flexibility to be productive must be restricted to the goal you have.

That statement may seem contradictory. Think about flexibility as a fluid like water. For you to drink the water, or use it for cleaning or irrigation, you must carry it within a container that is usually rigid. Without the rigid container it is difficult to benefit from fluids.

Defining flexibility without a rigid mental structure and a solid goal is not very useful. One definition of flexibility is part of fitness component related to your health. Stretching exercises and joint mobility are part of that structure.

Can you squat down? Bend down and touch your toes? How about reaching behind and touching your shoulder blades? These are all elements of ankle, knee and shoulder flexibility tests. As you test the joints in each area, you would come across overactive and short muscles like calves, hamstring and pecs that take your attention away from the joint and focuses it on the muscle.

When your attention is on the muscle, you may actually damage the joint by moving it out of alignment or overextending it. The beneficial definition of flexibility in physical fitness is built around joint mobility.