Yoga Therapy for Cardiovascular Conditions

In Yoga Therapy Greece, we have a big experience with cardiorespiratory conditions, and we handle them with safety and great responsibility. We focus on:

• Breathing slowly and ideally through the belly,
• Frequent practice, combined with stress reduction ones, as well as a healthy diet is the general rule.
• We teach patients how to breathe through the belly, ideally contracting the belly and exhaling through pursed lips.
• We lead them to personalized guided relaxations.
• We avoid strong practices and we suggest that mild is beautiful, an attitude that they may want to explore in their life in general.
• We explore chanting as it lengthens exhalation and promotes serenity and expressing themselves.
• We focus on lengthening the exhalation and almost all movements are done during exhalation, e.g small bridge
• We often start and we finish with a breathing practice, we pace the whole practice keeping it slow and making pauses in between movements and we are very careful in transitions.
• We emphasize activation of the center/belly
• We focus on relaxing the shoulders, by shoulder rolls and opening the hands.