Self-Help Guide
Asana Guide & Self-Help Library
Find the right practice for your health goal. Filter by need, explore by pose.
Showing 15 practices for Stress & Anxiety
Tree Pose
A balancing posture that develops concentration, coordination, and steadiness of mind. The challenge of balancing on one leg is a direct teacher of mental stillness.
Triangle Pose
Triangle Pose is a full-body stretch that improves flexibility in the hips and spine, strengthens the legs, and stimulates digestion. Its open, expansive shape counteracts the contracted postures of desk work.
Seated Forward Bend
A deeply calming forward fold that stretches the entire back body — from heels to crown. Paschimottanasana is traditionally said to stoke the digestive fire and calm the nervous system.
Cobra Pose
A gentle backbend that strengthens the spine and opens the chest. Cobra counteracts the forward collapse of sitting and working at a desk, and is one of the safest backbends for beginners.
Bridge Pose
Bridge Pose strengthens the back, opens the chest, and gently stimulates the thyroid. It is equally useful as an active strength-builder and as a restorative posture (supported on a block).
Legs Up the Wall
Among the most therapeutic postures in yoga. Legs Up the Wall reverses venous blood flow, deeply relaxes the nervous system, and relieves tired legs — accessible to virtually everyone.
Reclined Bound Angle Pose
A deeply restorative posture that opens the hips and groin while allowing the entire body to surrender to gravity. Excellent for hormonal balance, menstrual discomfort, and stress relief.
Camel Pose
A deep backbend that powerfully opens the chest, stretches the hip flexors, and strengthens the back. Camel is one of the most effective counter-poses to prolonged sitting.
Child's Pose
Child's Pose is the ultimate resting posture — gently stretching the hips, thighs, and lower back while calming the nervous system. Use it as a refuge whenever rest is needed during practice.
Shoulderstand
Often called the 'Queen of Asanas', Shoulderstand nourishes the thyroid and parathyroid glands, reverses blood flow, calms the nervous system, and is one of the most powerful postures for whole-body health.
Corpse Pose
The most important posture in yoga. Shavasana integrates the physical and mental work of the practice, allows the nervous system to consolidate new patterns, and produces a state of conscious rest unlike sleep.
Easy Pose
The classic seated meditation posture. Sukhasana opens the hips gently and provides the stable, upright seat required for pranayama and meditation practice.
Standing Forward Fold
A gentle inversion that decompresses the spine, releases the hamstrings, and calms the mind by increasing blood flow to the brain. One of the safest and most accessible decompression postures.
Yoga Nidra (Non-Sleep Deep Rest)
A guided body-scan and visualisation practice done lying down. Yoga Nidra produces deep relaxation equivalent to 4 hours of sleep in 30 minutes, and is one of the most clinically validated practices for burnout and PTSD.
Alternate Nostril Breathing
A pranayama practice that balances the two hemispheres of the brain and both branches of the autonomic nervous system. Clinical trials show significant reductions in blood pressure and anxiety within 15 minutes.