How about practicing yoga at home

Since many people are introverted, they are unwilling to interact with others. Even if they want to practice yoga, they want to practice it at home. So how about practicing yoga at home? Of course you can. It is always better to do more activities at home than to watch TV all the time. If you stay still all the time, you may easily get some diseases. Let’s take a look at how about practicing yoga at home.

1. I recommend a set of yoga movements to practice at home. "Sun Salutation" is a warm-up exercise before starting yoga and is also a basic yoga flexibility technique. This set is the most reasonable and effective whole-body adjustment method, suitable for warm-up before various sports. There are a total of twelve movements, which successively involve the head → chest → waist → face → legs → buttocks, and thoroughly massage the whole body to soften the muscles and bones of the whole body. Therefore, if you are too busy in your daily life to take out time to practice other yoga techniques, please take at least 15 minutes a day to do "Sun Salutation" 3 to 5 times, which can relax your body and mind that have been tense all day. You will be surprised by the changes this warm-up exercise brings to you.

2. Instructions for Sun Salutation

1. Stand upright, close your eyes and relax your whole body as much as possible. Bend your elbows at 90 degrees, place your palms together in front of your chest, and regulate your breathing twice (abdominal breathing). When regulating your breathing, have no distracting thoughts and let your consciousness flow with the air in your chest and abdomen.

2. Breathe in through your nose, raise your arms naturally upwards, bend your waist, shoulders, and back as far back as possible, and feel your chest and abdomen gradually expand and gas gradually flow in.

3. Exhale through the nose, slowly return the upper body to its original position, and then bend the upper body forward. If you can't touch the ground, you can use a yoga brick to help.

4. Inhale, straighten your left leg backward, slowly touch the ground below the left knee, arch your right knee, let your arms hang naturally, expand your head, neck, and chest as much as possible and tilt your hips back, concentrate your mind on your chest and abdomen, and then exhale slowly through your nose.

5. Inhale, place your feet and palms on the ground, keep your legs together, lift your hips up, push your thoracic spine inward, and make your whole body into a triangle. Then exhale slowly and adjust your breathing twice.

6. Inhale, stand with your arms upright, support your upper body and raise it off the ground, lean your head, neck, and chest back as far as possible, push your waist forward, and then exhale. After completing the above steps, repeat the whole set 3 times according to 5→4→3→2.

Misconception 1: Doing aerobics as a warm-up

Some yoga instructors use aerobics as a warm-up exercise before doing yoga. This is not advisable because the body is in an excited state after doing aerobics and cannot enter the meditative state required by yoga. In addition, the excitement of the body after aerobics can easily lead to overly rapid yoga movements, causing various strains.

Misconception 2: Practicing exercises at home

Many yoga enthusiasts prefer to practice movements at home according to tutorials such as CDs or books because they do not have time to go to the training ground or for other reasons. Experts point out that this method is not advisable, especially for beginners. Because if yoga learners do not understand their own bodies and do not know their own limits, they are likely to fall into blind practice and increase the chance of injury.

Practicing yoga at home is a relatively healthy lifestyle, but you must pay attention to your own safety issues. You cannot put your body in danger due to safety issues. You must focus on protecting yourself. Of course, in addition to this exercise at home, you can also do other exercises, as long as they are good for your health.