Yoga for beginners to help get back into shape.

 

If you are looking to learn more about yoga for beginners I am here to teach and guide you while helping  you get in better shape. I have been practicing  yoga for along time, and I am still learning and getting stronger and so can you.

 

Yoga is A series of sequential postures that flow together with deep breathing techniques and relaxation methods in between movements from one posture to another. Yoga for beginners is also combined with meditation and visualization techniques that assist in relaxation and stress reduction. As you learn to relax your parasympathetic nervous system. Your entire body is let go and free of all of the daily tensions it carries. Yoga is about taking care of your physical body, mental body, and astral body. But it has a system of five bodies, these are called koshas. Or five sheath layers. 

• The Yoga Sutras 
• Eight limbs of yoga practice
• Bhagavad Gita

• Proper exercise (asana)
• Proper breathing (pranayama)
• Proper relaxation (savasana)
• A proper vegetarian diet (sattvic diet)
• And positive thinking, contemplation, and deep meditation (Dhyana)

The yoga asanas are to keep your body healthy, strong, and flexible. To purify you, and assist in your body’s natural detoxification process.  elimination of toxins through sweat and breath.  

The best thing A beginner could learn in yoga is how to breathe correctly. Diaphragm breathing is the proper way to breathe. But because we lose this along our way in life the breath becomes shallow. It is important to breathe better. So you bring more prana into your bloodstream and oxygenate your cells.

When you learn to relax the tension in your body, you completely let go and the body enters a deep state of relaxation where you’re aware and awake. Being conscious of the tensions and learning to let go is the true state of relaxation. Combined with relaxed abdominal diaphragm breathing.

Your autonomic nervous system which is also known as your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, is when you’re suffering from chronic stress, your body spends time in “fight or flight”, carried out by the sympathetic nervous system, and not enough time in “rest and digest”, facilitated by the parasympathetic nervous system.

Sattvic diet is the purest food. The food is calming, rejuvenates the body, and has the most prana. This is the food of choice for most yogis. Yoga practitioners follow A very strict vegetarian diet. With plenty of whole food, and naturally organic food.

Rajasic food stimulates and contributes to physical and emotional stress. Examples are Fish, eggs, chicken, all whole pulses and dals (not sprouted), hot spices like chilies and pepper, salt, eggplant, onion, garlic, radish, tea, coffee, aerated drinks, and chocolate.

Tamasic food destroys the prana of the mind and body alike. They are harmful to humans. And they lower your vibrational frequency. Tamasic foods have a dulling effect on the mind, lower resistance to disease, cloud the mind, and promote negative emotions. Eventually leading to inertia. They block the flow of energy and produce harmful toxins. Some examples are fast food, fried food, frozen and canned foods, microwaved foods, processed foods, stale food, alcohol, drugs, chemicals, mushrooms, margarine, red meat, beef, sausages, bacon, and ham.

These foods are considered to be highly harmful to the body, mind, and soul.

Yoga philosophy teaches us the Yamas and Niyamas. These are moral values and restraints. The do’s and don’t. Sort of like the 10 commandments. 

restraints. The do’s and don’t. Sort of like the 10 commandments. 

Five Koshas

*Sun salutations 

Surya Namaskar

As mentioned earlier,  diaphragmatic breathing is the breathing exercise used most commonly when practicing meditation. that helps strengthen your diaphragm, an important muscle that enables you to breathe and remove all stale air out of the lungs making room for fresh new air. This breathing exercise is also sometimes called belly breathing or abdominal breathing. 

When you practice yoga wear comfortable clothing that is not too restricting or tight. 

As A beginner the best yoga style is A traditional Hatha Yoga practice. Hatha Yoga is the authentic yogic style that all other yoga styles branch out of. Hatha yoga will teach you the basic gentle yoga postures for beginners without the overwhelm of strenuous fast pace postures and styles of yoga such as Ashtanga yoga. 

You can practice yoga any time of the day. Whatever works best for you. I prefer doing yoga during the early start of my day, or during the day if I have time. Ideally, the start of your day is the preferred time to do your yoga practice. 

Yoga can be for anyone with an interest and desire to learn. It does not matter what your age, weight, or size is. There are many styles of yoga to choose from depending on what you’re looking for. 

Good luck on your yoga journey for great health, flexibility, and strength. Namaste. That means, the divine within me salutes the divine within you.

 

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