Immune system boost yoga, to make you feel better

Welcome to your Immune system boost yoga, to make you feel better. Working or while on holiday, there are so many people that get sick during the winter season.

Every winter after working long days, or snowboarding + skiing all day, plus add in the bitterly cold weather, lack of sleep, eating probably a lot of carbs and next to no vegetables.

Add in drinking alcohol, most probably way too much, eventually leads to getting sick throughout the winter season.

Depending on the work that you do in winter, you’ll inevitably meet with guests, not that guests are full of germs but those who have travelled from far and on an airplane, do unfortunately pick up something along the way too.

While those who work with children, whether you’re a childcarer or a ski/snowboard instructor, you’ll have found the hard way (if this isn’t your first season) that children have the equivalent of nuclear germs!

I spent my first winter season in Japan, in bed on New Years’ day, with a weird cold, which went away after a long night’s sleep.

This wasn’t the best way to bring in the new year, which is a important celebration in Japan.

There’s always a point mid season, where it seems like everyone has a cold, I’ve heard it being called the Seasonnaire Plague before.

So not to be all doomsday, you can try to help your immune system by taking care of yourself, de-stress with this yoga sequence and follow a few words of advice to at least try and enjoy a sick free winter season.

You’ll be able to enjoy powder days when you’re not working and just generally avoid being sick (I hate being sick, it’s so boring).

Obviously if you’re already feeling unwell I would highly recommend to go to the doctor.

If you’re doing a season in Japan, try to ask your employer or someone who speaks Japanese to come along with you to the hospital or clinic.

The hospitals in Japan tend to have better medication than the pharmacy, which tend to have placebo effect medicine rather than anything that can really help. Also this will avoid you being sick for longer than necessary.

Why would yoga help with my immune system?

Yoga helps by placing you into a rest & digest mode, rather than being in a state of stress and fight or flight mode. Yoga will help you to de-tress, let your body relax and recharge.

Plus if you’re less stressed, you’re more likely to have a better night’s sleep, sleep is so important for you, to recuperate and to rest.

This yoga sequence includes poses which are gentle enough for beginners, while even the most advanced of practitioners of yoga may want to put their hard practice aside.

To not add extra strain on the body and do this sequence.

Breathing x3 different ways

Seated Cat / Cow

Downdog

Sphinx

Hand to toe pose 1

Hand to toe pose 2

Hand to toe pose 3

Bridge pose

Legs up the wall

Have you tried these Immune System Boost  poses? Found that they made you feel better? Let me know in the comments below.