To many of us, first things that come to memory when they hear about "yoga," is a representation of sore looking and challenging poses.
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.
Yoga is a lot about being conscious about the stretching exercises. It is also about sensing all the muscle and breathing if you do your poses, like even a position as easy as the Mountain Position gives its own specific defiance. In the relation to yoga, the position implies placing your feet down six thumbs away of each other, with your legs muscles solid without being tight, your both shoulders in the same line with your thighs, and neck supple and right-angles.
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.
Performing Mountain posture is the key for all the other standing postures, and to do this properly you have to breath slow and deep, once you get the hang of this, you will enjoy this position a lot.
The Warrior I pose is similar to the lunge position, both of your legs have to be positioned ahead of the rest of your body, pointing to the end of your yoga mat. Hold the left sole broad, with your toes pointing ahead. On inhalation, you bring your torso up, and you lift your arms up to the wall. Keep yourself in a 90-angle lunge on the right leg, reassuring that you fully engage your interior muscles.
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. Adho Mukha Svanasana or The Downward Faced Dog Position
A seemingly toilless position and one of the most popular yoga positions, Taking-off by positioning your 2 palms steadily on the front side of the yoga mat, with your hands facing downward, fingers facing out - assure to hold both half-foot ahead from the shoulders.
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 Posture or 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.
Relax your head and shoulders and slightly lower them towards the ground. Straighten both arms and stretch handpalms and fingertips completely. Try to focus on proper and deep breathing. Lose tension in your back.
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.
Yoga is a lot about being conscious about the stretching exercises. It is also about sensing all the muscle and breathing if you do your poses, like even a position as easy as the Mountain Position gives its own specific defiance. In the relation to yoga, the position implies placing your feet down six thumbs away of each other, with your legs muscles solid without being tight, your both shoulders in the same line with your thighs, and neck supple and right-angles.
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.
Performing Mountain posture is the key for all the other standing postures, and to do this properly you have to breath slow and deep, once you get the hang of this, you will enjoy this position a lot.
The Warrior I pose is similar to the lunge position, both of your legs have to be positioned ahead of the rest of your body, pointing to the end of your yoga mat. Hold the left sole broad, with your toes pointing ahead. On inhalation, you bring your torso up, and you lift your arms up to the wall. Keep yourself in a 90-angle lunge on the right leg, reassuring that you fully engage your interior muscles.
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. Adho Mukha Svanasana or The Downward Faced Dog Position
A seemingly toilless position and one of the most popular yoga positions, Taking-off by positioning your 2 palms steadily on the front side of the yoga mat, with your hands facing downward, fingers facing out - assure to hold both half-foot ahead from the shoulders.
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 Posture or 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.
Relax your head and shoulders and slightly lower them towards the ground. Straighten both arms and stretch handpalms and fingertips completely. Try to focus on proper and deep breathing. Lose tension in your back.
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