Basics - Getting Started

Just a few friendly tips on starting yoga for the first time:

1. Think "Om" or "Breathe". A fluid, even breath throughout your yoga practice will optimize your yoga time.

2. No competition. In other words, go at your pace. Yoga is not supposed to hurt or pull muscles. Build up to more complicated poses and start out with beginner classes. *If you don't stretch all the way to the floor, then make reaching to the knee or mid-thigh the goal -- you will still benefit from the pose.

3. If you practice at home, try to compare your poses to your book, DVD, audio or internet class by performing the pose in front of a mirror. You can also go to trial classes, sometimes for free, at yoga studios, the YMCA or other gyms where you can ask the instructor to let you know where you need adjustments.

4. Breathe some more.

Here are some links to help get your yoga practice started.

www.yogabasics.com


www.kundaliniyoga.org/index.html
They have downloadable classes for free.

www.abc-of-yoga.com/

www.healthandyoga.com