Eye health is so important. After all, it is one of your five main senses. That’s why you should definitely give eye yoga a try.
Eye yoga refers to a series of movements that improve and aid your eyes muscles. It can enhance your focusing skills, strengthen your eye muscles, reduce tiredness, and increase the eyes’ flexibility.
Eye yoga refers to a series of movements that improve and aid your eyes muscles. It can enhance your focusing skills, strengthen your eye muscles, reduce tiredness, and increase the eyes’ flexibility.
When you’re going about your day, you constantly use your vision. To read, to work, to use your phone and laptop screens. To do almost everything. The only time your eyes get to rest is when you’re asleep. So, it’s important to give your eyes some much-needed attention when they’re starting to feel strained, tired, or overworked throughout the day.
Start by trying out some of these exercises listed below!
Blinking
- Begin by sitting in a comfortable position with your neck and head looking straight ahead.
- Blink your eyelids at a fast pace for approximately 10 seconds
- Once you have done this, gently close your eyes and keep them closed for approximately 10 seconds, slowly counting up.
- Repeat this every half an hour or for as many times you feel you need to for your eyes.
This will re-moisturize your eyes and reduce any irritation as we don’t tend to blink as often as we should throughout the day, especially when working with screens.
Figure of eight
- Begin with your head and neck facing forward.
- Close your eyes and keep them closed for the remainder of the exercise.
- Start with your eyes facing the top right and slowly move them down towards the bottom left.
- Move them upwards to the top left then down to the bottom right. You should now be creating the figure of 8 shape sideways.
- Continue to do this slowly for a few more rounds before going in the reverse direction.
- It can be easy to start speeding up your eye movements when doing this exercise but try to keep a slow and steady pace.
This exercise is beneficial for your eyes’ flexibility and reduces eye strain.
Focusing/Zooming eyes
- Begin with your neck and head facing forward.
- Stretch your arm fully in front of you with your thumb stretched upwards or a pen held vertically in your hand.
- Focus your eyes on the top of your thumb or pen.
- Bend your elbow downwards, slowly bringing your thumb or the pen closer to your face.
- Keep your eyes focused on one spot at the top of your thumb or pen.
- Once your thumb or pen is approximately 3-4 inches in front of your face, slowly bring your elbow back up and return to the arm’s original position whilst remaining focused on the thumb or pen.
- Repeat this process 4-5 times.
This exercise improves the eye’s focus by exercising the muscles that help you do this.
Eye Rolling
- Begin with your head and neck facing forward.
- Shift your eyes to the far right, keeping your head still.
- Then, move them in a circular motion upwards towards the ceiling, and downwards to the far left.
- Continue to move your eyes down towards the floor, then back to the far right.
- Your eyes should have made a complete circle.
- Repeat this approximately 8-10 times clockwise, then 8-10 times anti-clockwise.
- It can be easy to start speeding up your eye movements when doing this exercise but try to keep a slow and steady pace.
This exercise can help relieve eye strain whilst also reducing tension or soreness.
Once you have done these exercises, try this next method to relax your eyes.
- Rub your hands together with force in order to generate warmth.
- Once you have done this, place your palms gently over your eyes.
- Feel the warmth and let it relax your face.
- Keep your palms pressed against your eyes until you feel that all the warmth has dissipated.
This is a great method of relaxation, soothing the optic nerves and bringing more blood flow to the eyes.
Let us know how you keep your eyes healthy on our forum and social media and tell us if any of these exercises helped you!
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