Yoga is the time proven practice to keep your body and mind healthy in natural way. Practising yoga asanas at home daily will help you to remain calm and happy for whole day. Also it can be a reason to spend quality time with your family as other family members can also practice yoga with you.
Sequencing the poses is one of the most important things that you should learn before starting the yoga at home. Mastering of sequence needs lot of practice but you can learn the basic building blocks of practising yoga and can start doing it according to your convince. Here are the 5 tips for doing yoga asanas at home.
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How to Practise Yoga Asanas at Home
1. Yoga Schedule:
Setting up the schedule is the assurance that you will follow the schedule to perform yoga. Set the days and time when you are going to perform which pose. Make an aim of doing yoga for at least 3 days a week. If you want to do intense workout then you can practice it for 7 days a week also. Simply you have to set the intention of number of times you want to practice yoga weekly.
2. Set the duration:
Always set duration of your practice session. Ideally if you are practicing of your own at home then the session duration of 30 to 60 minutes is recommended. Generally yoga classes at studio are of 90 minutes. But if you are practising at home then it is difficult to sustain for this much lengthy duration.
3. Have an outline plan:
Standing on yoga mat and then you realize what to do. Make sure you have a plan of how to start and finish.
- Collect your energy by standing in still position
- Start doing sun salutation for warming up your muscles and joints
- Perform various standing poses like warrior pose, balancing poses and slowly do transition in them
- Then do the inversions to close your active poses
- Perform some stretch poses so that you stretches your back, hips, legs and arms
- Cool down and take savasana to grab the benefits of your yoga. Do this asana for 5–10 minutes
4. Don’t put pressure:
If you saw some expert performing a particular pose and you got inspired but you are not sure about the movements and balance then it is better to skip that pose. Otherwise you will harm your body.
5. Be consistent:
Always remember over night miracles don’t happen especially in case of yoga. Yoga is a technique that needs constant practice for months and years. If you want your body to be flexible and your mind to be calm then keep patience and practice yoga. You will definitely see the changes happening in you with the passage of time.
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Practising yoga at home is one of the best things you can do with you and your body. You can ripe the benefits of yoga without spending lot of money to join yoga studios. Practice thrice a day to stay healthy and stay happy.
Practising yoga is easy if done with determination and goal. You have to be consistent for it. And when you want to stop remember why you have started.