Yoga - A cure for migraine

Yoga can help with the early stage of a migraine by helping you rebalance the oxygen in your body. Stretching will help draw blood supply toward muscles and away from the brain. Certain poses will help rebalance your hormones and your digestion. Stretching can also help relax muscles that are reacting to the headache, and help the sufferer let go enough to ease the secondary symptoms. Using the right breathing theme will also help rebalance the oxygen.
So do this routine when you first feel the migraine coming on - when you get the visual disturbances, or first start feeling nauseous or whatever you have come to realize are your early symptoms:
1. Chose some stretches that are fairly demanding for you and that make you feel good. You might especially like to try twists, if you can do them, or postures that help your neck and shoulders, as tension in these areas might be helping trigger your headache. Pick at least 2 stretches. This should take you about 5 minutes. (6 stretches done over 15 minutes would be ideal.)

2. As you do the poses:

• Take long slow breaths out
• Then take shallow breaths in, about 2/3 full
• Do not hold your breath after you've breathed in.
• When you breathe out take all the time in the world to breathe out and stretch more and more as you do so.
• Then, before you breathe in, pause for as long as you can comfortably do so.
• The idea here is to encourage less oxygen intake and give your body time to build up CO2 before getting more fresh air with the next breath.

I find almost instant relief using this Breathing Theme. If you stick with it for about 5 minutes, the relief can last for hours. Later in the day, or as you feel the symptoms sneaking back, take another 5 minute yoga break to do this again. 
Poses to Help Headaches
Try these only if they are appropriate for you. Not all poses can be done by everybody. See our Caveats page and the caveats that are on each posture page. Pregnant women should not do the abdominal lifts or twists. Pregnant women and women having their period should not do inverted poses.
Great during a headache. Possibly because they involve holding your breath and altering your blood pressure.
Help relieve tension in the spine and body and can re-balance digestion. Good during a headache for some people. Others find that, by including twists in their daily routine, it helps them avoid headaches or lessens their intensity.
Relieve tension in the body and rebalance hormones and digestion. Not pleasant actually during a headache, but try including them in your daily routine to help you reduce the number of or intensity of headaches.
Good overall work out that can be made as intense or as gentle as you like. Removes tension from the entire body, rebalances blood flow, and constricting the over-dilated blood vessels in the brain by sending more blood to the working muscles. Good during a headache if combined with controlled breathing: 5 - 10 rounds recommended.
Breathing Themes that Will Help Your Headaches
When dealing with a headache, it helps to pace your breathing. This can help reduce the swelling in the blood vessels in your brain and rebalance the chemistry in your body - all of which can bring relief. So try using a Yellow Level Breathing Themes when you are doing any of the poses or routines above.

You can also do those Breathing Themes by themselves, as a breathing exercise, to provide some relief.   

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