Top 10 yoga poses for the beginners with fully explanation and YouTube video link of each poses

Asana is the physical practice of yoga poses. In addition to referring broadly to the physical aspect of yoga, asana can also be used to describe a particular pose, as in, 

Put as a beginner to yoga; you might feel overwhelmed by the number of poses and their odd-sounding name. These poses will build-up to the slow and gradual processes of yoga, then roll out on a yoga mat for the best yoga workout for beginners.

As you progress, you can take on more challenging poses, but it's a good idea to keep things simple when you're just starting. 

 

1. Mountain pose(Tadasana)

This pose learns to stand with majestic steadiness like a hill. The word Tada means mountain. That's where the name comes from the mountain pose.

This pose is the base for all the standing poses. It involves the major groups of muscles and improves focus and concentration.

 

How to do it:

  • Stand with your toes together and heels slightly apart. Hang your arms beside the torso.
  • Spread your toes and place your weight evenly on your feet. Firm your thigh muscles while rotating them inwards, relax your shoulders and roll them back and down.
  • Inhale, elongate your torso, and release your shoulder blades away from your head when you exhale. Put your hand in a prayer position.
  • Take long, slow, and deep breaths in.
  • how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HTvZp5rPrg

 

2.Vrksasana (TREE POSE)

The tree pose is awesome for beginners to gain focus and clarity, learn to breathe while standing, and keep the body balanced on one foot.

How to do it.

  • Put your feet together and place your right foot on your inner left upper thigh.
  • Hold and breathe 8 to 10 times, then change side. Make sure you don't lean into the standing leg and keep your core engaged and shoulders relaxed.
  • For a beginner, you can stand with your back braced against a wall if you feel unsteady.

See the linked youtube.com/watch?v=wdln9qWYloU

 

3.Trikonasana

Trikonasana is a standing position to stretch the side of the waist, open the lungs, strengthen the legs, and tone the entire body.

How to do it:

  • Stand on your leg.
  • Bend one side of your body, touch your leg by hand with the same side hand.
  • Look up and raise your other hand.

Tip for beginners

Place your back heel or the back of your torso against a wall if you feel unsteady in the pose.

how to do it use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6gB0QHbWFE

 

4.Virabhadrasana I

Virabhadrasana I pose is quintessential for building strength and stamina in yoga practice. It gives us confidence and stretches the hips and low body.

How to do:

  • Stand in Tadasana. With an exhale, step your feet apart. Raise your arms perpendicular to the floor.
  • Turn your left foot in 45 to 60%to the right and your right foot out 90% to the right.
  • With your lift heel firmly on the floor, exhale and bend your right knee over the right ankle so the shin is perpendicular to the floor.
  • To come up, inhale, press the back heel firmly into the floor and reach up through the arms, straightening the right knee. Turn the feet forward and release the arms with an exhalation.
  • how to do it use this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGY3xBnaGc

 

5.Adho Mukha Svanasana

Adho Mukha Svanasana, a Downward dog, is used in most practices and yoga classes, and it stretches and strengthens the entire body.

how to do it:

  • Bend like a pushup.
  • Go slowly towards your shoulder by arms.
  • And hold this pose for 5-10 breaths.

See this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ep5VzGqDRU

 

Tips for Beginners: If you have difficulty releasing and opening your shoulders in this pose, raise your hands off the floor on a pair of blocks or the seat of a metal folding chair.

 6. Urdhava Mukha Savanasana

This pose is a powerful pose that awakens upper-body strength and offers a wonderful stretch for the chest. 

How to do it:

  • Lie on mat stomach should be down; stretch your legs back, with the top of your feet on the mat.
  • Inhale your inner hands firmly into the mat, straighten your arms, and simultaneously lift your chest and your legs a few inches off the mat.
  • Pull your shoulders back, squeeze your shoulder blader, and tilt your head toward the ceiling, to open up your chest.

See this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdO9fY57nnk

 

7. Seated Forward fold (Paschimottanasana)

Seated Forward bend in yoga practice to stretch the hamstrings, lower and upper back, and sides.

How to do it:

  • Sit on the mat with your buttocks supported on a folded blanket, your legs extended in front of you.
  •  Lift your chest engage your lower abdominals, and imagine your belly button moving towards the top of your thighs.
  • Hold the pose for up to 10 breaths before slowly releasing with an inhalation.

See link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8sgVyF4Ux4.

 

Tips for beginners 

If you feel any sharp pain, you need to back off, but you can continue to breathe if you feel the tension when you do forward.

8. Setubandhasana

 The bridge pose is energizing backbend that resembles a bridge. The pose gets its name from the Sanskrit word, setu, meaning bridge.

How to do it:

  • Begin lying comfortably on your back in a supine position and place your feet hip-width apart.
  •  Lift your butt off the mat
  • Forward leg towards your shoulder to engage your hamstrings.

See link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyBkVBUlG4.

 

Tips for beginners 

A restorative bridge poses with a block or bolsters underneath the sacrum is the divine way to release the low back.

9. Balasna

Balaena poses are also known as child pose. It helps to stretch of hip, thighs, and legs. Child pose is not for beginners only but for also all levels of yoga.

How to do it: 

  • Sit on keen to floor.
  • Go down forward to you. Touch floor by forehead.
  • Rest your arms by your side.
  •  Stay in this poses for 5 to 10 breaths. 

See the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYvYsFrTI0U

 

10. Corpse Pose

At last, behave to relax our body for that Corpse pose is best poses. Although it looks easy, Savasana has been called the most difficult of the asanas.

How to do it:

  • Lie down on mat your back.
  • Separate your legs.
  • Relax your hand by your side.
  • Stay in this pose minimum of 5 mins.

See the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VYlOKUdylM

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