Why Is Yoga The Best Exercise For Traveling?

If you travel a lot, there are high chances of you ignoring physical workouts or exercise. And that is quite understood. After all, you cannot find a gym or a place to work out wherever you travel, right? However, this can impact your overall health leading to poor stamina, weight gain, and even obesity.

However, there’s one thing you can rely on Yoga. Yoga is undoubtedly the best exercise for travel. Want to know why? Well, read along. This blog talks about how yoga while traveling is beneficial and the asanas you can perform while you're on the go.

Why is Yoga Beneficial While Traveling?

If you cannot afford to miss your workout, yoga is the best exercise for you. Here's why:

Yoga is Better Than Exercise

When you have to travel a lot, it can be quite stressful. And this can prevent you from enjoying the experience. However, yoga can help. Yoga opens your body and mind. This allows you to travel with your soul and heart, which you can no way achieve with your regular workout sessions.

You Don't Need any Equipment

You might need a skipping rope, sports shoes, and gym equipment if you want to work out. However, this isn't the case with yoga. Although a travel yoga mat makes the job easy, it's not necessarily important.

You just need plain ground, and even your hotel bed would do. You can even perform yoga asanas while you're on the flight or at the airport.

Want to know what asanas you can do while traveling. Well, read along. We have listed some easy-to-do travel asanas later in this blog.

Relieve all the Stress and Tiredness

When you're traveling, you walk, fly, and might even sail. And it can be really tiring. In addition, if you work out or go for a run, you're going to feel more tired, burnt out, and even stressed.

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Fortunately, yoga is there at your rescue. Yoga can help you calm your nerves, stretch your muscles, and most importantly, relax your body which is necessary for travel-related tiredness recovery.

With that said, let's now learn about some asanas you can perform while traveling.

What Asanas Can You Do While Traveling or/and After a Long Travel?

Here are the best asanas that'll help you balance your body, mind, and soul after those tiring moments!

• Cat-Cow Stretch
• Upward-Salute
• Child's Pose
• Neck Stretch

Cat-Cow Stretch 

Cat-cow stretch offers amazing benefits for your spine. You can perform/practice it on the floor or even on your bed. Check out other beneficial asanas for the neck and spine here.

How to do it?

• Elongate your spine and rest your hands over the thighs.
• Breathe in slowly and draw your chest in the front and roll the shoulders back.
• Look upward.
• Now, slowly breathe out and form an arch with your spine.
• Pull your shoulders forward and gaze at your navel.
• Repeat the above steps 6-8 times.

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Upward Salute (Urdhva Hastasana)

This is one of the best forms of yoga for travelers who fly frequently. It'll help you stretch perfectly and reduce the flight tiredness to a minimum.

How to do it?

• Stand straight with a little bit of distance between your heels.
• Now, raise your arms shoulder distance apart. Your palms must be facing each other.
• Draw arms in line with your ears and rotate your biceps towards the back.
• Let your shoulder blades move up and away from your spine.
• With straight arms, reach your palms while gazing at your thumb.
• Take easy breaths multiple times and then slowly release.

Here's a GIF for better understanding.

Child's Pose or Balasana 

It's an amazing pose that can help you stretch your body and reduce stress and fatigue.

How to do it?

• Spread your knees wide apart in a sitting position.
• Hinge forward from the hips.
• The torso should be folded over your thighs, and your forehead should be on the legs.
• Keep your arms extended and long.
• Take deep breaths in this pose.

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Neck Stretch 

This pose can help if you are attending a long bus ride or flight. It can be performed right from your seat.

How to do it?

• Find a comfortable posture on your seat and sit with legs touching the ground.
• Elongate the spine and lift the head's crown towards the ceiling.
• Inhale some air and stretch a little more.
• Now exhale and release your right ear towards your right shoulder.
• Let your head fall slowly with gravity.
• Now move your shoulders away from your ears and soften your facial and jaw muscles.
• Stay this way for a few seconds, then change sides.

Wrapping Up

Yoga is immensely beneficial regardless of whether you're traveling or not. However, if you are traveling too frequently, opt for the given poses that can help you recover from travel fatigue while you're traveling and even after that.