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How to ease a summer cold: 4 decongesting yoga poses for when you’re bunged up and tired
By Kerry Law
3 years ago
2 min read
Find yourself struck down with a summer cold? Rolling out the yoga mat could be the answer – and we don’t just mean for lying down in corpse pose…
Your head feels stuffy, your nose is blocked and you ache all over – welcome to the season’s least popular visitor, the summer cold. The temperatures may be scorching and you’re just about to go on holiday, but the (distressingly) common cold knows no boundaries.
Dragging your sorry self to the yoga mat may be the last thing on your mind, but some yogis believe a bit of gentle movement could help ease your symptoms and stave off future colds. But how should you practise when you’re struggling with fatigue, congestion and aching limbs? Should you avoid inversions when there’s so much pressure in your head? And is it worth doing anything other than simply lying down in shavasana (luckily a top yoga move in itself)?
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