5 Yoga Poses to Feel Empowered

International Yoga Day falls on the 21st June every year. The theme this year is: 'Yoga for self and society', to promote the balance between thought and action, and the unity of restraint and fulfilment.

The amazing Mel Webb from @Karma_Beauty has put together 5 yoga poses which only take five minutes, and will hopefully help you to feel empowered, calm and reinvigorated. 🧘‍♀️🌈☀️

 Easy Pose

✨Easy Pose - can help calm the brain, reduce anxiety, and relieve mental and physical fatigue.

Mountain Pose

✨ Mountain Pose - to improve posture and body awareness. It will build strength in your legs, and establish good alignment.

Downward Dog

✨ Downward Dog - to stretch and widen the hamstrings, the calves, and the achilles tendon. In a downward dog, your head is lower than your heart, so it improves the blood flow through your body.

Reclining Deer Pose

✨Reclining Deer Pose - is energising, de-stressing, and relaxing. It helps to open the deeper tissues around the hips, pelvis, and groin, where it is believed that we store a lot of tension, worries and inhibitions in our bodies.

Reclining Butterfly Pose

✨Reclining Butterfly Pose - to loosen your lower back, hips, and inner thighs. It can help to alleviate upper and lower back pain.

Mel Webb is a fully qualified Wellness & Holistic Therapist, Yin Yoga Teacher and Reiki Master, with over 30 years’ experience providing award winning beauty treatments and holistic therapies.

Trained as a reiki practitioner in 2006, Mel uses her gift of intuition and light through providing group wellbeing sessions, reiki treatments, hosting regular woodland reiki retreats, providing reiki training and reiki circles.

For more information about Mel and the treatments and therapies Karma Beauty & Reiki provides, please visit their website