Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A Sneak View of Different Yoga Exercises for Beginners

By Courtney Hampton

Yoga endeavors to help people irrespective of one's age, race, color, ethnicity, civilization or origin. Growing in the east (in India) yoga has attracted attention worldwide. The history of yoga dates back to thousand of years earlier but in the modernized world it has been rediscovered to serve the new age world dwellers.

As have been said earlier yoga is for all. There are numerous poses of yoga exercises to suit different wants like stamina, strength, weight loose, flexibility, psychological gains and many more.. They vary from age to age. Yoga exercises for beginners are a bit unusual from the forms or poses practiced by the elderly ones. As yoga is a living form of exercise, that is, modifications do not kill yoga, so one can shape up the yoga postures and poses as per his appliance. Basically there are no exclusive yoga exercises for beginners. But some poses have been formulated so as to start with comfortably to the wonderful world of yoga.

When we say 'yoga exercises for beginners', the term is a bit blurred. Since yoga beginner may be of any age so the positions will deviate according to the age of the beginner. For example, a five year old beginner cannot be assigned the same positions which are imputed to a thirty year old beginner. But one thing is certain irrespective of the age of the beginner. That is, at first there should be some yoga exercises which will set up the body and the mind of the aspirant. These starting poses are a bit slow and common in complexity. They are aimed to increase the balance and flexibility of the practitioner so that in the future they can easily get directed to complex positions of yoga exercises.

Some facts are cited below which must be considered by a yoga beginner:

1) Yoga should never be practiced on a bare floor.

2) Start with easy forms of yoga.

3) Select the morning hours to begin with.

4) A standard yoga session must be of more than 30 minutes.

5) Loose cloths are best for yoga.

6) The environment should be non-disturbing.

7) You must have trust on what you are doing.

8) Do not attempt yoga with a full stomach.

9) Practice Hatha yoga for 2-3 months to increase stamina initially.

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