For a lot of people, the first thing they think about when they hear about the term "yoga," is a view of painfully looking, hard-to-do stretching. While performing yoga can be challenging from time to time, it's not quite that hard either. Actually, a lot of yoga exercises are as easy as standing straight and making your arms raise to the ceiling. And if you think about your P.E. classes, a lot of poses are assured to feel known.
1. Mountain Pose - Tadasana
Yoga is all about being aware of your stretching. It's about feeling your muscles and breath when posing, so even a pose as simple as Mountain Pose presents its own unique challenge. In the context of yoga, this pose involves planting down your heels six inches apart, with leg muscles firm but not tense, back shoulders aligned with the hips, and neck loose but straight.
Mountain pose is the foundation of all other standing poses, and the key to getting it right is proper breathing-slow and steady is how it goes
The Mountain position is one of the foundations from every different active positions, and it is a must to get this performed with proper technique and deep and slow and firmly fixed breathing, this is the way it goes.
2. Virbhadrasana I or The Warrior I Position
Maintain a 90-degree lunge with your right leg, ensuring that your core muscles are fully engaged.
Warrior I is a similar to lunge posture, you position your both legs in front towards the border of the yoga mat. You have to maintain a flat foot on the ground and your toes should be pointing forward, ahead of you. Take a deep breath while lifting your upper body up, point with your arms ahead of your head. Key is to hold a 90-degree position with your foot that is placed on the ground, ensure that you engage you center muscles totally.
3. Downward-Facing Dog - Adho Mukha Svanasana
Easily one of yoga's most famous poses, start by placing both hands firmly on the front of your mat, palms down, fingers out-be sure to keep them half a foot forward from your shoulders. Keep your knees below your hips and lift them away from the floor as you exhale, raising your hips and rear toward the ceiling. Stretch out your thighs and try to touch your heels to the floor-beginners will encounter resistance here, but that's perfectly fine. Be sure to keep your head aligned with your arms, and not hanging down.
A very known pose in the yoga world. To perform this pose, you place your hands on the front edge of your yoga mat with your hands facing downward and fingers stretched - make sure that you maintain them at half a foot ahead of the shoulders. Key is to hold the knees slightly underneath the haunches and move away from the soil during exhalation, raise the hips and reach out to the ceiling. Straighten and relax your hip area and if you are flexible enough you grab your feet or sools with your hands-intermediates still might feel to much tension in the back muscles and this is normal. Release tension in your neck and shoulders and look down with your face.
It takes some time to master downward dog, as you need a lot of flexibility and strength to perform this exercise. If you start with this position you focus on aligning the spine and holing your back straight. Put pressure on the feet to hold them down. All of this together with good breathing will make a good exercise!
4. Child's Pose - Balasana
Bring your shoulders and head down to the floor, with your arms stretched out forward along your sides, hands and fingers outstretched. Focus on your breathing and relax, taking time to feel your back stretched out.
Focus your gaze to the ground and lower your shoulders, straighten both arms pointing ahead of you. Stretch your palms together with your fingers completely. Concentrate on deep breathing and release tension, give yourself the time to stretch your back and relax.
1. Mountain Pose - Tadasana
Yoga is all about being aware of your stretching. It's about feeling your muscles and breath when posing, so even a pose as simple as Mountain Pose presents its own unique challenge. In the context of yoga, this pose involves planting down your heels six inches apart, with leg muscles firm but not tense, back shoulders aligned with the hips, and neck loose but straight.
Mountain pose is the foundation of all other standing poses, and the key to getting it right is proper breathing-slow and steady is how it goes
The Mountain position is one of the foundations from every different active positions, and it is a must to get this performed with proper technique and deep and slow and firmly fixed breathing, this is the way it goes.
2. Virbhadrasana I or The Warrior I Position
Maintain a 90-degree lunge with your right leg, ensuring that your core muscles are fully engaged.
Warrior I is a similar to lunge posture, you position your both legs in front towards the border of the yoga mat. You have to maintain a flat foot on the ground and your toes should be pointing forward, ahead of you. Take a deep breath while lifting your upper body up, point with your arms ahead of your head. Key is to hold a 90-degree position with your foot that is placed on the ground, ensure that you engage you center muscles totally.
3. Downward-Facing Dog - Adho Mukha Svanasana
Easily one of yoga's most famous poses, start by placing both hands firmly on the front of your mat, palms down, fingers out-be sure to keep them half a foot forward from your shoulders. Keep your knees below your hips and lift them away from the floor as you exhale, raising your hips and rear toward the ceiling. Stretch out your thighs and try to touch your heels to the floor-beginners will encounter resistance here, but that's perfectly fine. Be sure to keep your head aligned with your arms, and not hanging down.
A very known pose in the yoga world. To perform this pose, you place your hands on the front edge of your yoga mat with your hands facing downward and fingers stretched - make sure that you maintain them at half a foot ahead of the shoulders. Key is to hold the knees slightly underneath the haunches and move away from the soil during exhalation, raise the hips and reach out to the ceiling. Straighten and relax your hip area and if you are flexible enough you grab your feet or sools with your hands-intermediates still might feel to much tension in the back muscles and this is normal. Release tension in your neck and shoulders and look down with your face.
It takes some time to master downward dog, as you need a lot of flexibility and strength to perform this exercise. If you start with this position you focus on aligning the spine and holing your back straight. Put pressure on the feet to hold them down. All of this together with good breathing will make a good exercise!
4. Child's Pose - Balasana
Bring your shoulders and head down to the floor, with your arms stretched out forward along your sides, hands and fingers outstretched. Focus on your breathing and relax, taking time to feel your back stretched out.
Focus your gaze to the ground and lower your shoulders, straighten both arms pointing ahead of you. Stretch your palms together with your fingers completely. Concentrate on deep breathing and release tension, give yourself the time to stretch your back and relax.
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