Yoga and sleep apnea

The National Sleep Foundation recommends you between seven and nine hours of sleep per night. Even if you manage to hurry these hours, the interruptions of your sleep of sleep apnea interfere with the quality of quality. Sleep apnea is when you feel breaks in your breathing that lasts from a few seconds to several minutes. Breaks disrupt deep sleep and can occur 30 times or more per hour.

Conventional means of dealing with condition include weight loss, modification of your sleep position, stopping smoking, treatment of allergies and alcohol avoidance and certain prescription drugs. Yoga is a non -invasive way to potentially help relieve symptoms of sleep apnea.

How yoga helps

Sleep apnea generally occurs because your respiratory tract is blocked when you sleep and your breath becomes shallow or take a break accordingly. The blocking can occur for a certain number of reasons, in particular your genetic structure of the neck, the sleep position, the size of the tonsils, the excess fat or the poorly developed muscles of the throat and the diaphragm. Yoga teaches you to breathe fully and in your diaphragm; Many Westerners breathe only in their chest. Regular practice means that this deeper and more quality breathing becomes second nature and is found in sleep.

Some yoga poses also help relieve the usual stiffness in the neck, shoulders and backs which sometimes lead to the compression of the airways while you sleep. All stretching everything is increasingly open sleep habits, raising sleep apnea.