Yoga for Beginner's🧘🏾♀️
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What is Yoga?
Yoga is essentially a spiritual discipline based on an extremely subtle science, which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. It is an art and science of healthy living. The word 'Yoga' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'Yuj', meaning 'to join' or 'to yoke' or 'to unite'.
Warming Up
Warming up before yoga is critical. It raises your bodily temperature, which is great for your muscles. They become more limber and more susceptible to the benefits of yoga.
Goddess Pose
Goddess pose is an essential yoga warmup pose, because it works on your lower body and your core. More specifically, whenever you do goddess pose, your calves, quadriceps, and glutes are all active as well as your abs.
Downward Facing Dog
You're probably most familiar with this exercise. This is one of the most popular warmup poses for yoga, and it's also great to do before any physical activity. Downward facing dog is perfect for stretching your entire backside. However, the stretch is also great for developing strength in your wrists and muscles. One important area downward facing dog stretches is the ankles, which allows for more foot mobility when stretching.
Child's Pose
You're probably also familiar with child pose. It's a common yoga pose that is used for both warming up and relaxing the muscles in between workouts. The main reason this is such a great yoga warmup pose is that it increases blood circulation and relieves stress. On top of this, the child's pose is great for stimulating blood flow to the pelvic organs and stretching your back. This will allow for a wider range of movements while also providing things like tailbone pain relief.
Eagle Pose
Eagle pose is great for improving balance and posture. This stretch helps open your hips and promotes deeper breathing overall. One area that eagle pose also opens is the shoulders.
Eye of the Needle Pose
We recommend using the eye of the needle pose for warming up both your upper and lower body. This stretch is also great for increasing mobility since most of the muscles eye of the needle works on can tighten up during workouts.
Practice Warm-up Poses Today
We've shown you five of our favorite yoga warmup poses. Each pose is great for warming up certain parts of your body. However, there's one thing in common that all five poses have: increasing mobility. These warmup poses will help your muscles move more fluidly. Therefore, you'll be less prone to injury. Next time you go to the studio, we recommend practicing some of these poses.
