Beginners' Yoga

Yoga is for everybody so we love teaching beginners yoga because we love making it accessible for everybody.  So many people have barriers to beginning yoga without realizing that actually yoga is for everybody. If you're working with a great teacher that great teacher can help you modify the pose in whatever way you need.  That way you can have a wonderful experience.   

You might be one of those people who say I'd love to do yoga, I wish I could do yoga.  Actually you can do yoga because everyone can do yoga. 

Sometimes people want to yoga to get flexible. The best way to get flexible is just to start. It’s the key to anything really isn't it!  You don't need to come to yoga being able to touch your toes. You just need to come to yoga! 

Yoga’s about getting the chance to move your body, the chance to breathe properly and get the chance to get a bit more flexible.  So make the changes to be able to live your life a bit better.  If you've had a look at our some of our Yoga practices that are online we have a beginner's yoga course.   https://www.yogatotransform.com/offers/WNA6QfoS/checkout  That's right so sign up online and have a look  and that's only $US29. There's nine classes.

Our nine-video beginner course has been carefully curated to offer you a broad, fun and alignment focussed introduction to yoga. We teach you how to do the poses with a variety of modifications, props, in a chair and throw in some tutorials on setting the foundation of your feet, downward facing dog and meditation. The intention of the course is to set you up for a wonderful yoga experience by building your flexibility, strength, physical alignment and confidence in your own home, on your own timeline while you are supported by a fabulous likeminded online community.

All the beginner yoga classes are 30 minutes or less, so you can easily introduce yoga into your life by not needing to find too much time or go to far.

Class outlines:

•  Welcome and permission to modify and use props
•  Set the foundation, your feet
•  Standing poses to cultivate strength and flexibility
•  Strengthen your core
•  Find balance and salute to the sun
•  Meditation introduction
•  Release tension in your neck and shoulders
•  Downward facing dog tutorial
•  Chair yoga

Beginners yoga is a wonderful introduction to kick off your yoga journey, in a safe, supported and fun way.

So when you do yoga classes in a studio or gym a really good teacher would be asking you if you had any injuries or anything that's going to hold you back.  They will also be saying listen to your body and do what your body is telling you.

If you're doing our classes you'll get the opportunity to see that there's all sorts of people doing the pose in a different way. This might not might not be the same as you might not even be the same as a teacher which is fine! Do something that feels good to you!

A beginners class is mainly standing positions and moves. You can use a chair or a block or a folded up blanket or something like that a strap. If you’ve seen Audrie’s classes said she quite often just does the standing in tadsana and then adds in the movement from side to side so we're not trying to get you into massive pose.

So if you're in a beginner's yoga class and it trying to get you into how to do the splits, you're probably in the wrong class! The closest you should be getting to splits is lying on your back um with one leg in the air and a strap around the foot.  You are just actually learning how to open up your muscles in a safe way. Then to connect the movement to breath.

To do beginners yoga make sure your bones are stacking on top of each other because that alignment. It’s a way of keeping your body safe. You're always trying to make sure that your knee is over your ankle, your shoulder may be over your hip. So feeling in alignment with stability.You will be feeling safe in a good beginner's yoga class.

Beginner classes will be focused more on your breathing and focus more on your your expression of the pose and how it feels comfortable for you. You need to feel a little bit of sensation though! If you're bending forward in a forward fold and your hamstrings don't feel like they're stretching then bend forward a bit more!

So to improve your flexibility and to improve how you feel when you're doing yoga do a little bit often. Don't do it once and then do it again in six months time and expect to be better! It’s like all our physical practices you just need to do a little bit frequently. Two or three times a week is good.

Notice how your body feels when you've gotten into the habit of doing yoga. So if you sign up for our course then do the classes three times a week.  We outline how to do the class. We start with foundations which is the feet and then how to stand properly and then we move into standing poses.  The standing poses open up all parts of your body to get  on the floor and do seated poses. Notice as you get stronger and more flexible how your movement and mobility outside of a yoga class transforms. 

The effect of yoga practice will spread out into all aspects of your physical life.

It'll transform your sleeping too. It helps you focus on your breath, you will have stretched your muscles and then when it's time to go to bed you'll feel a bit lighter and you will be able to go to fall to sleep and stay asleep longer. 

So if you're thinking about starting yoga and you feel like you're a beginner you are in the right place! Look online at our beginners course

https://www.yogatotransform.com/offers/WNA6QfoS/checkout

and have a look at some of the YouTube clips we've got online for you

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzFCzwoZIDKQ0RltKd7pGw/videos

and just start, just start, just start.   

We look forward to seeing you on the mat sometime soon!