How Do I Start My Own Yoga Practice At Home: The Beginner’s Guide To Start Yoga Practice

How To Start Yoga Practice At Home

How Do I Start My Own Yoga Practice At Home: If we want to start yoga, it is important that we start with light and easy exercises. No work can be started immediately. It requires constant practice. Our body becomes stiff when we wake up in the morning, to make it flexible we should start with light yogasanas, so that our body can be suitable for further exercises. So let us tell you how to start practicing yoga at home.

When and Where to Do Yoga Practice?

Choose a comfortable time:

Morning is the best time to practice yoga but if you are short of time then choose a time when you can practice yoga without any disturbance.

Practice Regularly

• You should practice yogasanas regularly.
• Practice slowly. Initially practice for 4 to 5 minutes and then gradually increase the duration.

Prepare a Safe Space

• There should be a clean, airy and neat place to practice yoga.
• To practice yoga, you should have a yoga mat or a mat available at home on which you can sit and practice yoga asanas.

Start with light exercise

You can start with jogging in the morning. First warm up the body and then gradually move on to more challenging postures.

Focus on Breath

• Yoga emphasizes on breathing. Keep your breathing deep and rhythmic.
• Follow the breathing technique as prescribed in the yoga.

Safety Precautions

• Warm up before starting yoga practice.
• Consult your doctor if you have any injury or chronic illness.
• Pregnant women should be cautious with certain postures or yoga asanas.

Start Yoga Practice With Prayer

• First of all we should start yoga with prayer to our God so that our mind can be concentrated.
• Rules: First of all stand in a calm posture with both hands joined and both feet together. Close your eyes. Let your breathing be normal.
• Leave your body loose.
• Do this practice for at least half a minute.
• Benefits: By doing this practice our mind gets peace.
• Our mind becomes concentrated by doing this practice.

Do Jogging Before Starting Yoga Practice

• Before starting any yoga exercise, you can practice running very slowly for five minutes.
• You should not run fast, you should jog very slowly.
• When we wake up in the morning, our body becomes stiff.
• By jogging for five minutes in the morning, the muscles of our body become flexible and our body becomes suitable to start yoga practice.

Yoga Practice To Increase Intelligence

• First of all stand in the alert posture.
• Both hands should be downwards in the alert posture.
• Now slowly move the neck upwards.
• Wait for ten seconds and then think that all the disorders of my mind are going away.
• There should be happiness on the face.
• Breathing should be normal.
• Straighten the neck again.
• Do this exercise four to five times.
• Benefits: Mental diseases are cured.
• Neck diseases are cured.
• Dull intelligence becomes sharp.
• Willpower develops.

Yoga Practice For Cervical Strength Step 1

• First of all stand in attention posture.
• Keep your eyes open.
• Now inhale.
• Move the neck to the right.
• Without stopping, move the neck to the left.
• Exhale.
• Inhale again.
• Move the neck upwards.
• Then bring the neck downwards.

Yoga Practice For Cervical Strength Step 2

• Stand in a careful posture.
• Inhale.
• Now bend your neck towards the right.
• Exhale.
• Inhale again.
• Now bend your neck towards the left.
• Do this exercise at least 8 to 10 times.
• Benefits: It cures all the diseases of the neck.
• Fatness of the neck is reduced.
• Diseases of tonsils and throat are cured.
• Disorders like stammering are cured.
• Voice becomes sweet and melodious.
• Neck muscles become strong.

Yoga Practice For Hands

• First of all stand up straight.
• Breaths should be normal.
• Now close the fist of your right hand and rotate it in a circular position from front to back 10 times.
• Again rotate the same hand from back to front 10 times.
• Now close the fist of your left hand and rotate it in a circular position from front to back 10 times.
• Again rotate the left hand from back to front 10 times.
• Benefits: This eliminates pain in the nerves and blood vessels of the hands.
• The arms become strong and robust.
• The shoulders become strong.

Yoga Practice For Wrists

• Stand straight.
• Now keep both your hands straight parallel to the ground.
• Close the fists of both hands.
• Without bending the hands, move both the fists up and down, right and left.
• Again move both the fists in a circular position.
• Now open the fists and repeat the above mentioned methods.
• Benefits: By doing all these activities, the muscles of the wrist become strong.
• All the disorders related to the wrist are cured.
• The palms become strong.
• The tremor of the hands is cured.
• By doing these activities, the nerves connected to the mind are affected, due to which the mind becomes concentrated.

Yoga Practice For Waist Step 1

• First of all, stand straight.
• Put both hands on your waist.
• Now bend a little forward.
• Become straight again.
• Do this action of bending and straightening in sequence for thirty seconds.
• Benefits: By doing this action, the spine becomes effective.
• Back diseases are cured.
• Waist related muscles become strong.
• There is improvement in the digestive system.
• Stomach fat is reduced.

Yoga Practice For Waist Step 2

• First of all, stand straight.
• Spread both hands straight ahead parallel to the ground.
• Keep a distance of one foot between both the legs.
• Now, while breathing, rotate the upper part of the waist in a circular motion towards the right with the help of the hands.
• Now, while exhaling, return to the original position.
• Do the same action towards the left.
• This action can be done eight to ten times.
• Benefits: By doing this action, the waist becomes beautiful, well-shaped, thin and strong.
• The digestive system improves.
• The height of children increases till the age of 20 years. (There can be some genetic reasons for the increase in height)

Yoga Practice For Legs Step 1

• Stand in a balanced position.
• While inhaling, hold the heel of the left foot with the left hand and hit it on the buttock.
• While exhaling, bring the foot to the starting position.
• Do the same with the right foot.
• Do this ten times.
• Benefits: By doing this, the Mooladhara Chakra is activated.
• Nocturnal emission related problems are cured.
• The immune system is strengthened.

Yoga Practice For Legs Step 2

• Stand straight in balance.
• Now while inhaling lift the heel of your left foot and touch it to your buttock.
• While exhaling throw the foot forward as if you are kicking a football.
• Do this exercise with the right leg.
• Benefits: Doing this exercise cures joint pain.
• It is beneficial in arthritis.
• Knees become strong.

Conclusion:

We should warm up our body before doing any yogasana. We should start with a short time period and then as our body becomes suitable for yoga practice, we should keep increasing the time period. Any yogasana should not be started immediately. 

Before starting yoga practice, we should have complete information about it, for this you can get information through Google or YouTube or through a good instructor, only after that you should start practicing yoga.

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Disclaimer

The information given here is for educational purpose. Any yogasana should be done under the supervision of a qualified teacher.

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