By now you’ve probably heard (and, let’s be real, laughed at) the phrase “sitting is the new smoking.” But, truthgully, medical research has been sounding the alarm for the last few years ...

Sitting at a desk all day really is bad for your health, but these yoga poses can help counteract the damage. 5 Yoga Poses For When You Sit All Day Help undo the damage of all that sitting and ...

If you sit at a desk for most of the day, these poses are for you. As you move through each of these shapes, bring your awareness to how the targeted body part responds when asked to move outside ...

Melting into this pose will help alleviate any back pain you have from sitting all day. It can be done lying down as pictured or seated at your desk. Lie on your back with both legs in the air.

Oh, your aching back. Yoga Medicine founder Tiffany Cruikshank says this easy, gentle stretch can help with that: “This is a great pose to do at the end of the day, after you’ve been sitting ...

From the outside, sedentary jobs can seem light enough as most of their time is spent sitting at a work desk. In reality, even sitting at a desk all day can be detrimental to one's health. Studies ...

Shoulder Release. Continue to sit on the edge of your seat in an upright position. If your shoulders are tight, you can use a yoga band, belt, scarf or neck tie—essentially whatever you can find ...

This quick and easy pose will start to reverse the tightness in the hips and shoulders. Whether you do it right after you wake up , at lunchtime or at the end of a long day — it will work ...

The pigeon pose combats effects of sitting all day by stretching the ... best tips for doing the pigeon pose correctly and other hip-opening stretches you can practice after a long day at your desk.

I’m personally in this weird habit of sitting in the crossed-legged pose (the way you’d instruct a kindergartner to) whenever my hips start to hurt from being at my desk too long—which ...

A type of yoga called Iyengar can help counteract the aches and tightness people feel from sitting for long periods, says Carrie Owerko, an Iyengar instructor at the Iyengar Institute of New York ...

If you spend hours sitting—whether at a desk, on the couch or driving—it can lead to tightness, aches and limited range of motion. The best way to counteract this is with regular movement like ...