Yoga not just benefits the body parts but also, the eyes. There are several exercises that help in boosting the health of the eyes.
Boost your vision with eye yoga
Practicing yoga religiously helps in dealing with neck stiffness and back pain, the same way, yoga also helps in dealing with several eye-related disorders. Eye yoga helps in improving the vision and dealing with ocular disorders like hypermetropia (far-sightedness), myopia (short-sightedness), and others.
Eye yoga exercises
There are several therapeutic eye yoga exercises like:
- Blinking
- Palming
- Altering eye focus forward as well as sideways simultaneously
- Altering eye focus simultaneously from side to side
- Rotational viewing
- Simultaneously viewing downwards and upwards
- Near and distant viewing
- Preliminary nose tip gazing
Various eye disorders can be dealt with the help of glasses and lenses. But wearing powerful glasses is not the cure. On the contrary, it contributes towards making the condition grave.
Ocular issues like glaucoma and cataract are due to bacterial infections. Apart from this, there are other ocular issues too that occur due to the poor activity of the eye muscles. This could be due to chronic emotional as well as mental tension. Performing yoga exercises help in boosting the eyesight and relieving various ocular disorders like hypermetropia and myopia that occur due to weak eye muscles.
Exercises to improve the eyesight
Here we have mentioned some exercises that help in boosting the eyesight.
- Blinking
- Sit in a comfortable position and keep your eyes open.
- Blink your eyes about ten times quickly.
- Close the eyes. Relax for about 20 seconds. Shift your attention to your breath.
- Perform the exercise five times.
- Palming
- Sit in a relaxed position and close your eye. Take deep breaths in order to relax yourself.
- Rub both of your palms to make them warm and then cover your eyes with the palms.
- The warmth of the palms will relax your eye muscles. This darkness and warmth will soothe your eyes.
- Stay in the same position till your eyes absorb the heat completely.
- Remove your hands slowly keeping the eyes closed.
- Perform the same process three times.
- Sideways viewing
- Sit comfortably. Keeps your legs straight in front of the body.
- Lift the arms. Keep the fist closed and pointing the thumbs upwards.
- Keep your head still. Now, slowly and steadily shift your vision to the expansion between your eyebrows. From there take your vision to your left thumb and then again to the expansion between your eyebrows. Now, take your vision to your right thumb, again to the expansion between your eyebrows and then to your left thumb.
- Perform the exercise about ten to twenty times.
- After finishing the exercise close the eyes and take some rest.
While you perform the above-mentioned exercise, follow the below-mentioned breathing pattern:
- Inhale when you are in the neutral position
- Exhale when you look to the sides
- Inhale and return to the center
- Sideways and front viewing
- Sit in a relaxed position. Keep your legs straight in front of the body.
- Close your fist. Keep the left fist on your left knee with the thumb pointing upward.
- Focus on a point perpendicular to the level with the eyes.
- Keep your head fixed.
- Breathe out and keep your focus on your left thumb.
- Breathe in and keep the eyes at the point in the front and in level with the eyes.
- Perform the similar exercise using your right thumb.
- Close your eyes and feel at ease.
- Rotational viewing
- Sit in a relaxed position. Keep your legs straight in front of the body.
- Keep your left hand on your left knee.
- Hold your right fist over your right knee. Your thumbs should point upwards. Keep your elbow straight.
- With a fixed head, focus the eyes on the thumb.
- Keeping elbows straight, make a circle with your thumb.
- Perform the exercise 5 times in clockwise and then in the anti-clockwise direction.
- Perform the same exercise with your left thumb.
- Close your eyes and feel at ease.
While you perform the above-mentioned exercise, follow the below-mentioned breathing pattern:
- Breathe in while you complete the circle’s upper arc.
- Breathe out while you complete the circle’s lower arc.
- Up and down viewing
- Sit in a relaxed position with the legs straight in front of the body.
- Point both the thumbs upwards and place the fists on your knees.
- Keep the arm straight and move the right thumb upwards. Let your eyes follow the motion of your thumb.
- When the thumb acquires the maximum height, slowly bring it down to the normal position with your eyes still focussed on the thumb. Do not move your head.
- Perform the same process using the left thumb.
- Repeat the process five times.
- Keep the head and the spine straight.
- Close your eyes and feel at ease.
While you perform the above-mentioned exercise, follow the below-mentioned breathing pattern:
- Inhale while you raise the eyes.
- Exhale while you lower the eyes.
- Preliminary nose tip gazing
- Sit with your legs crossed.
- Lift your right arm straight in front of your nose.
- Make a fist with your right hand. Let your thumb point upward.
- Focus the eyes on the thumb tip.
- Bend your arm and bring your thumb to the nose tip. Keep your eyes tied to the thumb. Remain in the position for some time.
- With your gaze fixed at the tip of your thumb, straighten your arm.
- With this, you complete the first round, Perform five rounds.
While you perform the above-mentioned exercise, follow the below-mentioned breathing pattern:
- Inhale when your thumb is pulled to your nose tip.
- Retain inside when you hold your thumb at the nose tip.
- Exhale while straightening the arm.
- Near and distant viewing
- Sit and stand by the window with a view of the horizon. Keep your arms by the side.
- Focus on the nose tip for five to ten seconds.
- Perform this exercise about ten to twenty times.
- Close your eyes and relax.
While you perform the above-mentioned exercise, follow the below-mentioned breathing pattern:
- Inhale while close viewing
- Exhale while distant viewing
Keep your head and your spine straight while performing all these exercises.
Cool Down pose eye exercise
You can head straight to work after light eye yoga. But, post a full session of eye yoga, you need to take some rest. To relax, lie in the corpse pose for only a few minutes. Breathe normally. You can also perform yoga Nidra meditation for deep relaxation.
Who can perform eye yoga?
Anyone can perform these exercises to boost the vision and promote healthy eyesight.
