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A Good Starting Place for Yoga Beginners

First off, this is not really a sales pitch.  So don’t decide it is and stop reading.  I was looking at Yoga instructions on the web and found an interesting one.  I signed up.  I would not be recommending it unless I had actually bought it and tried it.  It is worth the money to me.  This 21 day yoga program offered by International Yogayalam introduces you to all the basic beginning positions and sets.  They send you an email every 3 days with three more lessons.

The lessons are .pdf files (you can get the adobe reader for free) that connect to videos also.  You read about the position, the history of yoga, the meditation, etc, and then watch the video to see the correct way to execute the position.   It gives you a different workout plan for everyday.

Best of all, you can do it at your own pace.  If you want to do lesson one for 3 days, you can.  Advance to day 2 when you are comfortable with day 1.  Just remember to download the lessons as they come in. The course includes:

• 21 daily lessons,
• 22 videos,
• 211 pages of comprehensive yoga instruction in over 60 powerful yoga techniques, yoga history and theory, yoga psychology, yoga diet, cleansing, yoga lifestyle and more…
• along with daily yoga practice guidelines,
• and special appendices of yoga practice routines.

Is it free?  No, but it is less expensive than six yoga classes at your local gym.  In fact, I would consider taking this course before I went to yoga lessons.  That way I would get more out of the lessons, being familiar with the positions and having practiced.  I might even be able to start at a higher level.

If you have been following my posts, you know that I am one that would rather do the yoga in the quiet and privacy of my own home.  I would rather have a set of good Yoga DVD’s to slip in the DVD player and do my yoga with them.  In fact, I would have several so I could switch them out, maybe one for each day of the week.  So this 3-week e-course is right up my alley.

It is free to check it out and see what all they have to say about it.  Click here to learn more.

Yoga Postions: Cobra, Child, Bow, and Grasshopper

Here we have four of the basic yoga positions.  They are simple, and you can easily transition from one to the other.

Set in a kneeling position with your bottom on your feet and back straight; then take 3 cleansing breaths.  Lean forward over your legs into a child pose (much like a fetal position), head on floor.

Reach your arms out in front of you, then unfold to a prone position, and raise your head and torso up into the cobra position.  If possible, do not let your front touch the floor during the transition.

Now bring your head and torso back towards the floor and lift your legs up with your arms stretched down the sides of your body into the grasshopper position.

Now, lift your legs higher, bending at the knees.  Reach back with your arms and catch your ankles.  This is the bow position.

Slowly lower back into the bow position, down and forward into the cobra position, then shift back into the child pose.  Slowly pull  up into the kneeling position and breath.  Repeat 3 or 4 times.

See how simple it is to make a routine? Until you feel knowledgeable about yoga, I suggest you get a good set of yoga DVDs such as Wai Lana’s (see right column).