Yoga begins with meditation, which has its own special name - "dhyana." Dhyana is a state of pure mind, unconsciousness, total absence of content. This is the main preparatory stage before yoga training at any level of complexity. Yoga is not just a unique stretch, but spirituality. Although, as the yogis say, the first without the second is impossible, despite the fact that the audience admires the first. If you relax your mind (and it's not so easy to relax it, it can take years), you will be able to master the most difficult poses in yoga, like, for example, shavasana.
About shavasana should be said separately. Beginners, looking at this asana, say to themselves: "Well, I'll definitely be able to." Externally, the pose does not represent anything at all - you just need to lie on the floor. Shivasana is the posture of a dead person. The name is not accidental, for it is here that you must achieve that 100% lack of consciousness.
Also, there are enough dangerous, traumatic inverted poses in yoga, to which you will surely reach, mastering simple simple postures, standing on your feet. Dangerous are: the headstand ("shirvasana"), the "bridge" (sarvangasana), the stance on the forearms (pinca maiurcasana).
Exercises
We will perform the most simple asanas in yoga. Or rather, it's not asanas, but rather just yoga poses for relaxation. After all, the first thing you need to learn how to begin practicing yoga is relaxation. Experienced yogis say that it makes no sense to throw your legs behind your head and stand on your hands, if at the same time you hold your breath for at least a second.
Yoga is health and good. Therefore, we will first learn the right breathing and mobility of the body, performing these preparatory yoga poses.
Note: the complex is performed without interruption. These are not individual poses, viz., A complex with standing poses of yoga arising from each other.
- Stand upright, legs together, top up. We grasp the air with our hands and raise them high up. We stretch out like a string, striving all the way to the sky. Squat - breathe in, rise - exhale. Inhale - stretch out, exhale - gently bend to the side. The inhalation is the center, the exhalation is the inclination.
- We stretch our hands to the sky - we bend our outstretched arms and stretch out on exhalation.
- Breathe in the squat, breathe out. The body diagonally, in the lower back do not bend, knees are half-bent. We bend down, we lower the ribs to the hips, the back is even. We are stretching our arms forward - arms bend and stretch out on exhalation.
- Inhale - we take our hands back, straighten our knees, exhale - squat, arms stretch forward. We perform 8 times and at the end fix the squat position, we put our hands in the lock.
- We lower our palms just below the knees, straighten our legs, raise our backs and bend. The palms are lowered on the shins, the body tilts, we make a crease to the legs, elbows to the sides. We rise - breathe, hands through the sides up. Exhalation is namaste (Indian greeting, bow). Breathe - hands up, exhale - fold, inhale - up. Breathe - hands forward and sideways, exhalation - down. Breathe - hands through the sides up, exhalation - squat. Breath - up, legs on the width of the hips, on exhalation tilt to the side. Inhale - the center, exhale - aside. Exhale - tilt forward, inhale - hands in the lock, crouch.
- Hands are bred, fold - we are pressed to the feet. We rise, rounding the back. Tilt to the side, we connect hands together, through semicircle forward, we come back to the center. To the side - through semicircle forward.
- Hands in hand, down and up, in a lock over your head. Gently stretch and stretch the intercostal muscles, moving from side to side.
- Exhale we open hands, we breathe our hands together - namaste.
- Breathe - hands to the sides, exhale - down. Alternately, we stretch our arms up like wings.
- Inhale - we close, arms cross in front, exhale - we open, arms we separate apart. Breathe - hands up, exhale - we stretch forward. Lean diagonally, make a crease. The vertebrae behind the vertebra rise upward, the shoulders through the semicircle back.