Benefits of Eye Yoga
Our fast-paced life calls for a little bit of exercise to improve our health. Hours of full-body workouts at the gym often make us neglect our eye health and the prolonged use of digital displays could be doing more damage to our eyes than we imagine.
Today, Yoga is being practiced by people the world over and an exercise that was once practiced by a few is now gravitating towards becoming a fitness mantra. Regular practice of yoga helps in maintaining good health and improves the functioning of the organs. But did you know Yoga poses include exercises for your eyes as well? These are exercises that you could do right at your desk without having to move around and only requires a few minutes from your busy routine.
These 5 easy-to-do exercises can bring you so much comfort in the mid-afternoons when your
eyes feel sore and gritty:
Palming
The energy created from rubbing your palms vigorously and placing them on your eyes
brings some much-needed comfort to your tired eyes. Regular practice will gradually
reduce your dark circles.
Rotate Your Eyes
Follow your breath while rotating your eyes. Sitting in a peaceful place, rotating your
eyes while breathing in a rhythmic pattern will restore balance in your eye muscles.
Figure of Eight
Imagining a giant figure 8 on the floor and tracing it both clockwise and anti-clockwise
will improve your eye’s flexibility and control the physical movements of your eyes.
Stretch Your Eyes
Diagonally moving your eyes right and left while focusing on what you see will keep your
eye muscles strong and active.
Blinking
Blinking 10-15 times and repeating the exercise 3 times can relieve you of dry eyes and
nourish your eyes. This exercise in particular is important since we often forget to blink
enough when we’re focused on digital screens.
