Nourish the liver, nourish the heart in summer, nourish the lungs in autumn, and nourish the kidneys in winter. TCM believes that spring is the best season of the four seasons to take care of the liver. Maintaining the liver in the spring can play a multiplier effect with half the effort, today introduce a few simple yin yoga movements to help unblock the liver meridian and maintain the liver.
People with bad liver and gallbladder, liver meridians, often gray skin dull face prone to spots, dry eyes, frizzy hair, at the same time temper irritable, like nameless fire, if you have these symptoms, just take advantage of the spring to regulate the liver, the skin becomes better eyes have a spirit, even the temper has become mild.
In passing, it is advisable to eat more spicy and hair-growing foods in spring, such as green onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, bean sprouts, and toon heads are all foods that are particularly suitable for spring eating.
Let's look at the specific actions:
1. Vajra sitting and Vajra sitting twisting
Stretch the instep and ankle + unblock the upper body liver meridian
Kneel on the mat with your knees together, the instep on the ground and your hips sitting on your heels
Hands naturally on your knees,
Adjust the pelvis and spine, shoulders back and sunk and chin slightly tucked
Hold 5~8 sets of breathing while sitting in Vajra
Inhale and hold your hands flat on your side!
Exhale, turn your arm to the right, put your left hand on the outside of your right thigh, support your right hand behind your body, and look in the direction of your right shoulder
Hold 5~8 sets of breathing and practice back to the front and back.
2. Beam angle type
Stretch the inner thigh to unblock the liver meridian on the inner thigh
Sit on the mat with your legs straight, shake your legs, and turn your ankles.
Bend your knees, hips abducted, the soles of your feet together in front of your body, and the soles of your feet wrapped around your fingers.
On inhalation, the spine stretches
As you exhale, bend forward to your own extent and rest your elbows on the inside of your knees.
Hold 5~8 sets of breathing in the beam angle style.
3. Sit with your head on your knees
Unblock the inner thigh liver meridian + stretch the lumbar chest and neck
On the basis of the bundle angle, straighten the right leg and open the right foot outward.
As you inhale, stretch your hands to the right side of your body with your palms together
As you exhale, bend your body to the right with your arms, extend your left hand toward the top of your head, and look in the direction of your left arm.
Hold 5~8 sets of breathing, then return to the right and change feet and reverse exercises.
4. Sitting angle
Unblock the liver meridian on the inside of the entire leg, this may be the most used and most famous action to unblock the liver meridian, it is recommended to lie down every night before going to bed all year round, which can mobilize the liver's self-healing repair ability and replenish the liver.
Sit on the mat with your feet parallel to the two tests open to the maximum
Inhale and stretch your body.
Exhale, lean your pelvis forward, and bend your body forward to your own extent.
Leave on for 3~10 minutes.
Pay attention to this movement: let the pelvis lean forward, not use the lumbar spine to compensate. Don't pursue the amplitude of forward flexion, just stretch the inside of your legs.
5. Sit and bend forward
This is a transitional action.
Retract your legs and bring your feet together.
Inhale extension, exhale forward flexion,
Hold several sets of breathing.
6. Simple twisting ridge
Hip tucking + unclogging the liver meridian route of the upper body, neck and face.
Sit on the mat with your legs straight and your toes hooked back.
Bend your right knee and rest the sole of your right foot on the outside of your left thigh
As you inhale, stretch your hands at your sides
As you exhale, your arms lead your body to the right side. Place the left hand on the outside of the right thigh, support the ground with the right hand behind the body, and look in the direction of the right arm.
Hold 5 to 8 sets of breaths back to correct and reverse the exercise.
7. Rest
Finally, don't forget to rest and completely relax your whole body.
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