What should you pay attention to when you first learn the basic skills of yoga?

Whether you are learning yoga on your own or with the guidance of a coach, it is very important to learn the basic skills of yoga. Just like Kung Fu, horse stance is a must. I have found that many people, when learning yoga, are so focused on achieving results quickly that they neglect the basics. As a result, subsequent practice becomes increasingly difficult and they are unable to succeed. The more solid a person's basic skills are, the broader his future path will be. This is an eternal truth. No matter what you do, I hope everyone will pay attention to practicing basic skills.

The word "Yoga" (English: Yoga, Hindi: योग) comes from the Sanskrit "yug" or "yuj", which means "unity", "combination" or "harmony". Yoga originated in ancient India and is one of the six major philosophical schools in ancient India. It explores the principles and methods of "the unity of Brahman and Atman". What modern people call yoga is mainly a series of methods of self-cultivation and mind-nourishing.

Around 300 BC, the great Indian sage and founder of yoga, Patanjali (English: Patanjali, Hindi: पतंजलि), created the Yoga Sutras. Indian yoga was truly formed on its basis, and the practice of yoga was formally defined as a complete eight-limbed system. Yoga is a system that helps humans realize their full potential by raising consciousness. Yoga postures use ancient and easy-to-master techniques to improve people's physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual abilities. It is a form of exercise that achieves harmony between body, mind and spirit. It includes postures to adjust the body, breathing methods to regulate the breath, meditation methods to regulate the mind, etc., in order to achieve unity of body and mind.

As a practitioner, you should always follow the natural laws of yoga practice and proceed step by step without comparing yourself with others. Many people always think that practicing yoga requires good flexibility in the early stages of practice. When they see other practitioners or coaches around them can do more stretching or more difficult movements than themselves, they will be eager to achieve quick success and want to do the same. This often causes them to hurt their joints and muscles due to their anxiety, and the practice effect will be counterproductive.

There is another link that cannot be ignored in the whole practice process: warm-up, which is preparation for practice, or some simpler yoga movements. If this is missing, you are likely to get injured or have difficulty completing the movement. For example, in power yoga practice, it is easy to get nervous when doing the upward dog pose without proper warm-up exercises. Once the body is unable to support itself, the joints will exert force and the body will be easily injured.

The economic base determines the superstructure. If you want to practice yoga well, you must adjust the flexibility of your body, otherwise you will be unable to move forward. Through the above explanation, I believe everyone has understood the importance of basic skills. More haste, less speed. I hope everyone can take one step at a time, don’t be impatient for success, take it slow, and feel the deepest things during the yoga training.