Healthy eating habits, a constant workout, regular practice of yoga at home and good mental habits only keep you fit; it can decrease the risk of colon cancer and can also be beneficial for colon cancer survivors.
According to American Medical Association, if you practice yoga exercises regularly, the threat of colon cancer decreases and also the risk of recurrence of it gets lowered up to 50 percent for the survivors. Therefore, whatever you do, try to move your butt by practicing yoga at home.
The colon cancer survivors can do the following yoga exercises to decrease the risk of recurrence of the disease.
1. Easy Bridge Pose
Lie on your back and keep the hands at your side. Then bend the knees and place the feet on the floor at hip distance apart.
Breathe in, press your feet on the ground and raise your pelvis. Then breathe out and lower your pelvis and spine slowly. Inhale and raise your pelvis and spine up. Exhale and lower the pelvis and spine. Repeat this process again and again.
Reclined Wide-Angle Pose
Inhale and raise your legs upward. Bring your palms to the inner thighs and breathe out. Then stretch your legs open.
Again Inhale and close your legs slowly, resisting with your palms. Then exhale and extend the legs wide open.
You can also bring the legs closer, and after breathing out hold your knees to your chest. Once again breathe out and stretch and open the legs as shown in the picture.
Do the above procedures for many times and after that raise your left arm and roll to the left with holding three deep breaths and take rest.
2. Head to Knee Pose
Sit with stretching your legs straight in front of you. You can put a blanket under your hips to make them raised. By doing this the lower back gets extended.
Take a band in hand and wrap it around the ball of your left foot. If you feel uncomfortable in keeping the right foot on the floor, use a folded blanket to support it.
Put the sole of your right foot in to the upper, inner left thigh. Keep your navel and the middle of your left thigh in a line by slightly bending the spine.
Hold either side of the strap with both hands. Breathe out and start to bend forward with contracting the belly towards the spine. Stretch your spine after taking a breath.
Then exhale and lengthen your spine over your left leg and slide your shoulder blades down your back. Again inhale, lengthen your spine and sit upright. Finally remove the band.
3. Corpse Pose
Corpse Pose is the final pose of any yoga class. In this yoga exercise you go to a full relaxation state. You may think that it is an easy pose, but in reality it is very difficult to practice. You have to become inactive and motionless with a conscious decision to release the mental babble. In this pose you cannot take a little nap or deep sleep rather you have to stay present with complete alert during the pose. With making the whole body relaxed you can motivate your mind and body to stay away from anxiety, fatigue, depression, and disease. The benefits of this pose include balance in blood pressure, respiration, muscle tension, heart rate and increase in metabolism.
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