Is Yoga for headache relief worth your time? Believe it, or not, a search of reputable sites will mention Yoga as an adjunct method for headache pain relief. When teaching students with ailments, there should be an encyclopedia that would compile suggested pranayama techniques and asanas for each condition. Can you imagine the size that book would be? Each of us has manuals, notes, texts, and study guides from our yoga teacher training courses, but we need comprehensive medical studies for every ailment. Many yoga instructors still do trial and error methods. That said, we should make sure a student has talked with his or her doctor, because headaches have specific causes and differences. Teachers want to be careful and keep students out of harm’s way. It should be remembered that each of us has a unique body and results will vary. If a student knows the cause is high blood pressure, we know that inversions will not be recommended. Knowing the cause of the headache is extremely valuable.
Distracting the mind from pain makes yoga for headache relief a reasonable choice. Almost every yogic technique can be beneficial in relieving headaches when practicing yoga training, but gaining some insight to these specific yogic techniques can help yoga teachers explain what works and what can irritate, when it comes to headaches. When considering what to avoid, hot or flowing yoga might be a problem, but many loyal practitioners would beg to differ. Each of us is different and anything that makes a headache worse should be avoided.
• Legs up the Wall – This is an inverted yoga pose and is not advised for students with high blood pressure, eye conditions, or heart problems. This asana is perfect for getting to that place where your mind is quiet, and becoming ready to focus. It is important to keep the legs up, not necessarily at a 90 degree angle. Also be sure the shoulders are gliding away from the head and pressed gently to the floor.
Also advise students to drink plenty of water and limit their interaction with electronic devices. This practice, along with a healthy diet and plenty of rest should have them feeling better. Most of all, make sure your students know that yoga is not a cure. If yoga alleviates headache pain, it is only covering the cause. For example: If the cause is too much time on the laptop, yoga might help, but every time we spend excess time using electronic devices is the real source of the problem. This is only one example, but a talk or exam with one’s physician is going to reveal your specific cause. This issue should not be ignored, because we don’t want to ignore a potential serious condition.
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