Asanas for sagging breasts

The following set of exercises helps you straighten your slouching shoulders and strengthen your pectoral muscles.

Caution: Those with high blood pressure, heart problems, tennis elbow, and other wrist and elbow problems should not attempt these asanas. Those with frozen shoulders should also be careful while practising these exercises.

Exercise 1

•  Bend your right leg to bring one knee in front of the body and stretch the other behind
•  Place your palms in front and your front heel away from your groin
•  Bend the back leg from your knee
•  Lift both the arms above the head and bend
•  Arch the upper body, look up and hold the toes of the bent leg
•  Hold the position for 10-30 seconds
•  Slowly return to the starting position.

Exercise 2

•  Stand on your knees with legs and feet apart
•  Lean back, hold the right heel with your right hand and the left heel with your left hand
•  Push the abdomen forward, drop the head back and arch back, as far as you can
•  Hold the position till you are comfortable, breathing normally
•  Slowly release one hand, then the other and resume the starting position.

Exercise 3

•  Sit with your legs stretched out and feet together
•  Place your palms on either side of the body with your fingers pointing away from the body
•  Lift your hips and body up, keeping your legs and arms straight, soles flat on the floor, chin up and head in the position shown in the picture
•  Hold the position 10-30 seconds, breathing normally
•  Lower your hips and resume the starting position.

Exercise 4

•  Sit with your legs stretched out and back straight
•  Bend one leg, place your ankle on the opposite thigh, close to the groin. Bend the other leg and place the ankle on the thigh of the bent leg, close to the groin
•  Take your arms behind your back, hold one wrist with other hand and pull it down as you lift your chest and drop your head back
•  Hold the position for 10-20 seconds
•  Slowly resume the starting position.