10-Minute Morning Yoga Routine – Easy & Quick

Good morning all
Today, I’m so excited to share with you my morning yoga routine. I truly love to wake up with the sun, my best time to do yoga is in the early morning, I feel energetic and flexible all day long in mind, body, and soul.
If you have a busy day, take the first 10-minute in the morning for yourself and do some yoga poses this will make a big difference in your day. Give it a try, after waking up drink a cup of water and rolling out your mat. Start with these simple poses to stretch your body and charge yourself with amazing energy.

Tips before practice

Choose a comfortable place, It would be great if it is close to the sunlight.
Smile in every pose with a big deep breath.
Don’t think about anything in this 10 minutes. This time is for yourself just calm focus and clear your mind.

10-minute morning yoga routine

Here are my best seven yoga poses which I love to do it early in the morning. It’s for all level, you don’t need any prior yoga experience to do it! Let’s start with the first pose 🙂

Mountain Pose (Tadasana)

Start with the foundational pose for all standing yoga postures “Mountain Pose” to improve posture and balance.
Stand with your feet together and stretch your arms towards the floor. Stand nice and tall, focus on the present moment, and your balance don’t lean forward or back. Take a few deep breathes here, calming your mind.

Upward Salute (Urdhva Hastasana)

From Mountain Pose, with inhaling stretch the arms up overhead reaching up toward the ceiling. Grab your left wrist with your right arm take a deep breath with exhaling bend over towards the right. Inhale back to center hold the breath and switch, grab your right wrist with your left arm, exhale with bending over towards the left.

Repeat it three times.

Warrior I (Virabhadra I)

This pose increase self-confidence, strength, and balance. It’s lovely to do it in the morning.
Start with spreading your legs three to four feet apart so that you are standing in a straddle pose. Turn your feet to the right so that the left foot turns 45 degrees toward the right side of the mat and the right foot turns to face directly toward the right side of the mat. Exhale and bend your right knee at a 90-degree angle so that the shin is perpendicular to the floor. Raise your arms perpendicular to the floor and make it parallel to each other.

Hold for four to seven breaths. If you’re finished, take a deep breath and move to the next pose

Warrior II (Virabhadra II)

From a Warrior I Pose, exhale and reach your arms out to the sides parallel to the ground and shoulder blades wide, palms down.
Stay and breathe for five to eight deep breaths.

Downward Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)

Place both hands on the floor on either side of the right foot, step the right foot back to meet the left as you come into Downward Facing Dog Pose for deeply stretches the back, opens the chest, and builds upper body strength. If you can’t straighten your knees you can bend it like the image, make sure the spine is straight.

Hold here for eight to ten breaths.
Then walk your feet to the front and do Warrior I & Warrior II poses for the left side.

Cat and Cow Pose (Marjaryasana, Bitilasana)

After doing the postures on the left side, come into tabletop position, make sure that the shoulder is over the wrists and your knees underneath the hips. Start with cow pose, inhale and drop your belly towards the mat, roll back the shoulders, and gaze up toward the sky. In exhale, move to cat pose. Carve your belly toward the spine and round your back toward the ceiling and rotate the chin to the chest. Inhale and move to cow pose, then move to cat pose with exhaling.

Repeat this pose 7-10 times.

Child’s Pose (Balasana)

lower your hips to your heels with exhaling, put your forehead to the floor. Spread your knees slightly apart.
Your arms can be overhead with the palms on the floor or can be alongside the body with the palms up. Close your eyes.

In The End..

These are my 10-minute morning yoga routine, simple and easy poses to be full of energy all day. If you have stress or you get angry easily this will help you change your mood to be better and starting your day with a good intention (remember, don’t think about anything just focus on your breath). A 10-minute of yoga every morning can be very simple to add it to your morning routine, listen to your body and choose your favorite yoga postures to your morning routine.

I would be happy if you Share with us in the comments below your yoga routine, and what is your favorite yoga postures you love to do it after waking up?

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