Whether you have had a heavy meal, broken your diet regime, gone on a cheat day, the culprit is going to have an effect on your digestive tract only. It is alright to treat your tummy and your taste glands to what you like to devour, nevertheless, you have to be mindful to exercise it out so you don’t put yourselves to an uncanny end.

Practicing Yoga regularly will be of rescue in situations like these and will also help you in further occurrence. Whilst yoga requests of you to follow a diet regime, it is however not strict with you on that. The best thing with practicing yoga is it will control your desire and curb you off willingly from consuming in high quantity.

Continue reading to find out those magical yoga asanas that would aid you in your digestion troubles.

With an amalgamation of a few deep breathing, stretches that point abdominal organs, and distorts that massage and wrings out fixed intestinal toxins, this series alleviates a wide range of digestive troubles – gas problems, bloating and constipation.

And the best part? Better digestion paves accompanies more energy.

Marjaryasana-Bitilasana (Cat-Cow)

Breathing deeply in successive cat and cow poses will acupressure your organs as you see-saw your inhalation and elongate the intestines, getting supplied with fresh blood to the epithelial cells. They are in charge of a healthy gut function.

How do you do? Lay your hands underneath your shoulders and knees under your hips, perpendicularly. Breathe in as you let fall your belly button toward the floor and raise your heart and hips to the sky. Repeat the process 10 times.

Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog)

Come into a plank pose to arrange your feet and hands. Rest your hands shoulder-distance aside and feet outer-hip-distance aside. And then, use your core to press your hips up and back. To widen your back, flex your knees a tad to stretch your spine and extend your shoulders wide.

Use this pose for deep breaths in your belly, tugging the navel up so as to approach your back of your heart every time you exhale to strengthen your intestines.

Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)

Place your right foot forward in a low dive and then stretch the leg straight. Place your left foot forward and turn your foot to a 45º to 60º angle towards the front of your mat with the heels flat on the surface. Calm your right hand gently on your right shin and stretch your left hand to the sky with the palm facing outwards. Lengthen your head’s crown forward as you come into contact with your tailbone towards your left heel.

Parivratta Trikonasana (Revolved Triangle Pose)

Free your left hand to the surface and flat your hips by dropping the left side of the hip down straight with your right. Keep your legs in momentum and strong as you raise your right arm with the palm facing away from your body.

By squeezing and thereafter releasing the colon, you will activate the motion of accumulated toxins wiled in the body. Those with Inflammatory Bowel Disease may want to be mindful with this yoga pose as it is likely to create an unwanted force of the organs.

Uttana Shishosana (Extended Puppy Pose)

Move onto your knees and as if you were going to your Cat-Cow pose. Allowing your hips to where they are, move your hands in the forward direction. Rest your head onto the flat surface or optionally, a block and enable gravity to open your heart.

This pose is beneficial for lengthening the belly to mitigate cramps after a heavy meal.

Setu Bandha Sarvangasana (Bridge Pose)

This is the best backbend for flattening the digestive organs, whilst concurrently pumping fresh blood to the heart. This asana also assuages any tiredness caused due to poor digestion.

This is quite an interesting pose. Rest your feet flat on the surface as close to your sitting bones. Breathe out and push down your inner arms and feet onto the floor whilst also extending your knees in the forward direction. Take finite deep breaths and slowly release your spine to flatten.

Alternatively, you can use a block under your sacrum for a better passive backbend and save your thighs from getting tired.

Savasana (Corpse Pose)

Finally, pull all your lefts and rights together to balance the spine. This compression will help in eliminating the transverse colon. After you have allowed all your organs to relax on the flat surface, feel your breathing regaining to its naturality.