8 Yoga Asanas To Get Rid of Joint Stiffness

Yoga asanas are a great way to treat joint stiffness offering balance, stamina, and flexibility while easing discomfort. Here are 8 yoga poses to get rid of joint stiffness and pain and boost your joint health.

Bow Pose: This pose is good for the shoulder joint and gives a fine stretch to your back. This pose requires you to lay on your stomach, slowly raising your head and legs upward, and hold your feet in your hands above your back, forming a symbolic bow.

Forward Fold: This pose requires you to stand straight, slowly bend forward and touch your leg in bending positions. This pose strengthens your hips and knees while improving flexibility in your legs.

Bridge Pose: This pose requires you to stand on your heels and palms while facing towards the sky. It strengthens your knee joints and back while stretching your chest, spine, and neck.

Cat/Cow Pose: A daily practice of one minute of this pose can bring significant results in lowering back pain and stress while helping maintain flexibility. To do this pose stand on all fours and keep pushing and pulling your back alternatively.

Warrior Pose: Warrior pose requires you to stand on the ground with legs wide apart, shoulders elevated, and knees bent as if you are heading into the battle. This pose strengthens the knee and benefits the ankle joint.

Cobra Pose: Cobra pose involves lifting your body upward and slowly moving it in the opposite direction while resting and stressing your palms. This pose is beneficial for the flexibility of lower back muscles.

Tree Pose: Ideal to stimulate hip joint muscle and ankle muscle with various other benefits, this pose is done standing on one foot while placing the other foot on another’s knee or thigh with a namaskar mudra.

Downward Facing Dog: The pose mimics the shape upward down V-shape where you lift your hips upward by forming a triangle while resting your palms and feet on the ground. The pose is beneficial to stretch calves and hamstrings while strengthening arms and legs.