8 Yoga Poses for Your Back Flexibility

Yoga helps reduce back strain, stiffness, and improve spinal health. These 8 yoga practices improve back flexibility:

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This vigorous sequence warms up and mobilizes the spine, enhancing flexibility and mobility.

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This pose relaxes the spine, hips, and thighs and promotes serenity.

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Downward dog strengthens the arms and legs and stretches the spine, shoulders, and hamstrings.

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Cobra posture expands the chest, strengthens the spine, and stretches shoulders and abdomen.

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This position releases neck and upper back stress while stretching the spine, shoulders, and arms.

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Seated forward fold calms the mind and relieves stress while stretching the spine, hamstrings, and calves.

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Bridge position opens the chest, strengthens the back, glutes, and hamstrings, and improves posture.

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This mild twist stimulates digestion, extends the spine, hips, and shoulders, and detoxifies.

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8 Yoga Poses for Your Back Flexibility

Yoga helps reduce back strain, stiffness, and improve spinal health. These 8 yoga practices improve back flexibility:

This vigorous sequence warms up and mobilizes the spine, enhancing flexibility and mobility.

Cat-Cow Stretch

1

This pose relaxes the spine, hips, and thighs and promotes serenity.

Child's Pose

2

Downward dog strengthens the arms and legs and stretches the spine, shoulders, and hamstrings.

Downward Facing Dog

3

Cobra posture expands the chest, strengthens the spine, and stretches shoulders and abdomen.

Cobra Pose

4

This position releases neck and upper back stress while stretching the spine, shoulders, and arms.

Extended Puppy Pose

5

Seated forward fold calms the mind and relieves stress while stretching the spine, hamstrings, and calves.

Seated Forward Fold

6

Bridge position opens the chest, strengthens the back, glutes, and hamstrings, and improves posture.

Bridge Pose

7

This mild twist stimulates digestion, extends the spine, hips, and shoulders, and detoxifies.

Spine-supine twist

8

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