What should yoga beginners pay attention to?

Yoga is a very good sport for cultivating the body and mind of the practitioner. Everyone from teenagers to the elderly can participate. Because its intensity is not high, it is suitable for patients with heart disease. In addition to cultivating your sentiments, proper yoga exercises can also improve your physical fitness. For beginners of yoga, there are many aspects that they need to pay attention to during the initial practice, such as breathing exercises, which is the foundation.

(1) Fasting Exercise

It is advisable to keep an empty stomach 2 to 3 hours before practicing yoga. This can prevent the digestive system from robbing the brain and limbs of blood and nutrients, thereby weakening the effects of yoga postures on the body. It can also avoid discomfort to the stomach and internal organs caused by twisting and flexing of the body.

2. Breathing through the nose

The air is full of dust, viruses, and suspended particles. Breathing through the nose can block pollutants and make the inhaled air warm and moist, reducing irritation to the respiratory tract and keeping the inhaled air hygienic and clean. More importantly, yoga emphasizes breathing control. If you cannot use correct breathing, the effectiveness of the posture will be greatly reduced, hindering your learning progress.

3. Don’t Compare

Yoga is a sport that focuses on inner training, while parasailing is a competitive game. When practicing, one should not compete with other students. Otherwise, the fighting spirit will affect one's emotions and lead to a negative mentality of competition, pride, winning, and success-seeking, which will destroy one's concentration and motivation during practice. Beginners should compare themselves with themselves and use yesterday's performance as a criterion for evaluation. They will improve if they work hard every day.

Precautions

Each beginner has different flexibility, endurance and learning ability. When practicing yoga, you should do it according to your personal physical ability and follow the guidance of the instructor. Don't be too eager to win, overestimate your abilities, or blindly imitate your mentor or students.

Practice difficult yoga moves. This will only increase the chance of injury, cause frustration, and ultimately be counterproductive.

Although yoga is a low-intensity exercise, you still need to know when to stop, because some yoga moves require a lot of flexibility from the exerciser. If your body has not reached that level of flexibility, you may strain your muscles if you exercise for a long time. Although muscle strain is not a very serious problem, it may become a sequelae that cannot be cured.