This 20 minute yoga routine for beginners incorporates some of the most basic yoga poses to stretch, calm, and tone your entire body. Makeup by Nancy Nguyen.If you are looking to get into yoga but overwhelmed where to start, this beginner yoga routine is the perfect solution. End your practice with a bow forward, thanking yourself for coming to your mat, and thanking the universe for the ability to practice.Īnd a little PSA for all you yogis out there: in the photo of warrior 1, my leg is up. Bring your heart rate down by breathing slowly and with intention. Once you’ve completed these three flows, take 5 minutes in Sukhasana with your hands at your heart. If you prefer more lunges, add some in! Yoga is all about connecting with your body, so do what serves you. If standing postures are difficult for you, take them out. It’s Flow through at least 2 times on each side.Īs you go through each flow, listen to things that work and don’t work for your body. Instead of moving with each inhale and exhale, hold each pose for 5 breaths. This third and final flow is all about slowing down and building strength. It works off of a lot of the poses you’ve already done in Balancing Flow. Flow through 3-4 times on each side (should take 15-20 minutes). The result is a fast-paced flow that gets your heart rate up, and hopefully gets you lost in movement. It’s designed to flow with your breath, so one pose will be done on the inhale and the next on the exhale. This is a longer flow, and should take up a lot of time on your mat. Focus on softening your edges and lengthening your body in each pose. Flow through this for 10 minutes, pausing when you feel tension and breathing into the discomfort. I do this slowly, breathing in and out within every pose. This is a simple warmup to get the heat going in your body. It makes all the difference! Without further adieu, let’s do this! And I cannot stress enough: blast an awesome music playlist while you flow. I’m sharing with you all three yoga flows that I do on a weekly basis. It’s truly a practice I’ve grown to love. Even when I do a circuit workout, I always start with a few simple yoga flows to get my body warmed up. It’s the longest I’ve ever stuck with a workout routine. The once torturous chatarungas became effortless. If I skipped a class one day I felt tired and weary. It was most definitely a form of dance, of moving your body and completely letting go of your mind.Īnd just like that at the three week mark, I felt my body craving the movement. My arms hurt and I felt so exhausted that I needed to sit for a solid hour after class.īut as I kept with it, I found that this yoga was all about movement, going from one pose to another in definitive and purposeful flow. Contrary to the yoga I had done previously, these classes were fast and intense. The studio I went to was known for classes that left you in a pool of sweat. And if after a month I didn’t like it, then I’d stop. I had to give this hot vinyasa yoga a try. I decided right then and there that I would give it a month, forcing myself to go 4 times a week. Hearing her say she had started just weeks earlier piqued my curiosity. Her arms were firm, her legs felt stronger, and her abs were tight. I go 4 times a week and I’m obsessed.” Turns out, she had started only 6 weeks earlier, and already she had noticed dramatic changes in her body. Then in the spring, I ran into one of my girlfriends on the street. Alex and I laughed some more, and that’s the last I thought about yoga for months. I powered through it, saying how weird it was that I hadn’t seen her and oh my god don’t you love it so much?! I side eyed him as if to say don’t you dare laugh. Then all of a sudden a girl in the class goes “Omg, I go there too! I actually work there!”Īlex almost lost it. I looked up yoga studios in Ann Arbor, and said I went into the first studio that popped up on Google. So I created a presentation where I lied and said I practiced yoga three times a week.Īs I presented it to the class, I looked over to see Alex snickering the the corner. It was ironic I hated yoga so much, but it was the perfect subject to talk about creating energy. My dislike for yoga was so strong that in college, Alex and I took a class where we had to give individual presentations on “what gives you energy.” We were sitting around, trying to come up with ideas for our presentations, when Alex said, “how funny would it be if you said yoga.” I was bored and annoyed at the same time. Throughout this time, I tried a few yoga classes here and there. It was like meditation to me it transported me to another place where I stopped thinking and just… moved. The movement, the transitions, and the music. I danced for 10 years as a kid, and I absolutely loved it. Haaay everyone! I am so excited to bring you the yoga routine that made me like yoga (or as my sister’s friend suggested, “10 poses to get you nama-nasty”).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |