Better Digestion with Yoga Techniques

Explore strong digestion and its digestive fire, agni, from yogic and western perspectives. Balance it by eating smaller meals, avoiding acidity driving foods, and practicing mindful meals with gratitude.

Explore the causes of indigestion and slow digestion, including stress and poor food choices, and learn techniques like relaxing before meals, mindful eating, spices, and movement to boost digestive fire.

Achieve balanced digestion, or Samah Agni, where digestion, absorption, and elimination stay normal, with no bloating, gas, or foul burp, and gain energy, clarity, and steady weight.

Stimulate the digestive fire with herbs and spices that warm stomach, boost appetite, and enhance absorption of vitamins and minerals. Some may boost circulation and immunity, but acidity requires caution.

Explore Ayurveda's six digestion stages—sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, astringent—and how each nourishes tissues called dojos, and compare transit times with home beet or corn tests.

Explore how foods with different energies and digestion times interact, using banana and milk as an example, and offer guidelines on fruits, melons, leftovers, and raw versus cooked.

Practice abdominal breathing to relax the mind and abdomen, improve digestion, and reduce fatigue through slow breathing as the diaphragm pushes down, before or after meals.

Practice the wind releasing pose with knees to the chest to relieve gas and bloating through gentle abdominal pressure and relaxed breathing.

Practice raised legs pose to strengthen the abdomen and digestive system, relieving constipation, indigestion, gas, and lack of appetite, with breathing rounds; avoid if hypertension or back or heart conditions.

Practice yoga asana for piles through shoulder stand and its variations to invert the body and drain stagnant blood, relieving pressure while noting contraindications.