12 Effective Baba Ramdev Yoga Exercises For Eyes

Benefits: Palming is warming up your eyes for better circulation. This eye workout is a quick and easy way to relax your eyes. It improves blood circulation and keeps tiredness and puffiness at bay.

Procedure: To do Palming, sit in a comfortable position. Rub your palms against each other, vigorously until you can feel the heat radiating from them. Place the palms over your closed eyes and feel the warmth spreading.

5. Trataka

Benefits: Trataka means to gaze at an object continuously for a fixed period. Doing so improves your concentration and vision. This eye exercise lowers high myopic eye powers.

Procedure: Sit down comfortably, either in Padmasana or Vajrasana. Place a candle about two feet from where you are sitting. Light the candle and gaze at the flame without blinking. You can count numbers in your head to keep track of time and for your mind to not waver. Look as long as you can. The longer you do, the better.

6. Bhastrika Pranayama

Benefits:  Bhastrika Pranayama boosts blood circulation to the head and improves vision. It also refreshes your physical and mental being.

Procedure: Sit down in Padmasana with your spine erect. Using your right thumb, close your right nostril. Inhale and exhale forcefully and quickly through your left nostril. Do this about 20 times. You can feel your abdominal walls bellowingⁱ  XTo yell loudly or create a loud, deep sound. Animals do this to express their grief or anger to others. while doing the exercise. Make your last breath, long and profound. Now, repeat the same process on your right nostril with the left thumb closing the left nostril. Finishing the exercise on both the nostrils makes for one bhastrika. Relax for about 30 seconds and repeat the entire process again. Do it for about 10 minutes.

7. Kapalbhati Pranayama

Benefits: Cleanse your lungs and improve your circulation for a better vision with this skull shining breathing exercise. This is a very powerful exercise that ensures you a flatter tummy, better vision, lustrous hair, and much more. The inhalation is almost nil while exhalationsⁱ  XThe outward movement of an organism’s respiratory stream. In humans, the air flows through the airways and leaves the bronchial tubes. are powerful and in rapid succession.

Procedure: Sit in a comfortable position. It could be Padmasana, Sukhasana, or Vajrasana. You can allow yourself to be supported by a wall, if you have back pain, as this breathing exercise is a powerful one and beginners could find themselves subjected to back ache.Close your eyes and keep your hands in yoga mudra.Focusing on your lower abdomen, make a quick inhalation followed by powerful and quick exhalations, [about 8 to 10 per inhale-exhale cycle for 1 to 2 seconds], to start with. A beginner can keep her hand on the belly as she might find it difficult to concentrate during the initial repetitions.Increase the number of cycles slowly. With regular practice, you can reach up to 100 counts.

8. Bahya Pranayam

Benefits: Along with being an excellent way to improve the circulation and cleanse the lungs, this also helps in easing disorders associated with reproductive organs. Make sure that this pranayama is performed on an empty stomach.

Procedure: Sit comfortably in Sukhasana or Padmasana. Inhale deeply and empty your lungs with a forceful exhalation. Now, holding your breathing lock your chin with the chest. This is known as the Jalandhar’s Bandha. Pull your belly inwards as much as possible so that it comes closer to your spine. This is known as the Uddiyana Bandha. Now, hold the groin muscles upwards or hold yourself in Moolabandha. Hold the Bandhas together for about 10 to 15 seconds to start with. Taking a deep breath, release the Bandhas. Repeat for about 2 minutes, to begin with, increasing the time from 5 to 7 minutes.

9. Anuloma – Viloma Pranayama

Benefits: This is the easiest of the pranayamas and is also known as the alternate nostril breathing exercise.

Procedure: Sitting in Padmasana or Sukhasana, stretch out your hands, resting the palms on your knees in yoga mudra. Lift your right hand in Pranayama mudra. Using the thumb, close the right nostril. Take a deep inhalation with the left nostril. Closing the left nostril, allow exhalation through the right nostril. Now, inhale through the right nostril and allow exhalation via left nostril. This completes one round of Anuloma – Viloma Pranayama.Repeat for 10 to 15 times to start with, increasing to 50 to 75 times, gradually.

10. Udgeeth Pranayama

Benefits: This is basically a meditation exercise, wherein you are expected to chant “OM”. This is ideal for those who want to relax. Kids can practice this to boost their memory power. This breathing exercise involves inhalation and exhalation of longer duration.

Procedure: Sit comfortably in Sukhasana or Padmasana.Take a deep inhalation.As you exhale, chant Om as long as you can. The longer you can hold your breath, the better the results are.One chanting completes one round. Relax with your eyes closed, breathing normally, for about 15 seconds before moving ahead with the next repetition.Repeat this for 2 to 3 minutes, to begin with, increasing the duration to 10 minutes gradually.

11. Agnisara Kriya

Benefits: Agnisara is a combination of two Sanskrit words – Agni (fire) and Sara (cleansing or washing). To be more precise, this exercise focuses on cleansing the fire or Manipura chakra situated near the belly button.

Procedure: Stand with your legs apart from each other and take a deep nasal inhalation.

Bend your knees slightly. Bend your head slightly downwards and exhale through your mouth.Make sure that the back is erect always, with your abdominal muscles in the relaxed position. Pull your navel up and inwards so that it comes closer to your spine.Hold your breath for about 15 counts and then flap the abdominal muscles, forward and backward for 10 times with the breath under hold.

12. Shavasana

Benefits: You should allow your body to relax after any workout session and the Corpse Pose is the ideal asana.

Procedure: Lie down in supine position.Keep your feet together or stretched out, as per your comfort level.Allow your hands to rest on either side of the body, palms facing the ground.Close your eyes.Inhale and exhale deeply, allowing your body to relax completely.

Infographic: 5 Best Baba Ramdev Yoga Exercises For Eyes

Baba Ramdev has popularized yoga throughout the world. While yoga has many health benefits, certain exercises and relaxation techniques are solely for vision improvement and eye health. The infographic below contains a compilation of the top 5 Baba Ramdev yoga exercises that may help keep your eye healthy and manage eye problems and vision-related issues. Take a look.

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Baba Ramdev promoted yoga in India and abroad through television and yoga camps, benefitting millions of people. His yoga focuses on pranayama and other practices that can help heal particular ailments. The above Baba Ramdev yoga exercises for the eyes can be a great way to improve eye strength and combat eye fatigue. They are advantageous for people with hypermetropia and myopia and help with vision enhancement. Furthermore, they improve blood circulation and keep puffiness and tiredness at bay. Nonetheless, you should combine healthy food and appropriate rest into your daily routine to achieve better outcomes!