Basic Yoga Exercises For Beginners

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Basic Yoga Exercises For Beginners
Today yoga is a favorite choice for many people to restore physical and mental fitness. Yoga is believed to relieve feelings of frustration, anger, anxiety, depression and disappointment.
There's even research that yoga can fight a particular disease that is among others to reduce asthma, arthritis, blood pressure, back pain, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, chronic fatigue, headaches, stress and more.
Many types of yoga practice. Not all types of yoga practice match with everyone. Everyone has a different character, both in terms of age, physical condition, mental, activity, and others. In addition, the selected type of yoga practice should be tailored to the goal you want to get from the exercise. For that, you must select the type of yoga that is appropriate to the character and your purpose.
So many types of yoga practice, but you should know that yoga is a type of sport that have principles on physical, breathing, and mind (concentration). With based on three things, namely physical exercise, breathing, and concentration, then yoga has a positive effect ...
... on the physical external and internal organs, and also mental or mind.
Many beginners are confused how to begin to practice yoga, and what type of yoga that fits their needs. Now it's a lot of information of yoga either through the Internet, books, DVDs, and others. You can try to visit www.yogaforbeginner-s.com. You can also directly consult with yoga trainer at yoga center in your place, because today was a lot of yoga practice center anywhere.
Yoga is a very flexible sport. You can do anywhere and anytime you have time. But to get maximum results, you must do the exercises seriously, and most importantly the concentration. Remember, concentrate! So, you have to get rid of all the things that can disrupt your concentration, let the voices of noise, odor, dirt, and others. Maybe you also need to wear clothes that does not interfere with movement and your concentration, and maybe you should also use a tools to facilitate the exercise, such as mats, bolster, and others.
For those of you who are beginners and want to know about yoga exercise, I'll give the basic practice of yoga. You can try these basic yoga exercises. I'll show you the basic exercises that include three principles, physical exercise, respiratory, and mind (concentration). Although this is only basic training, but you will feel the results for yourself, and you will become more aware of the character of the practice of yoga.
In this exercise you must remember that there are three things you should do together and in harmony in every movement. Three things are body movement (physical), respiratory, and setting the mind (concentration). Remember, those three things you should do together and in harmony!
Here are basic yoga exercises. Read, understand, and do it right and concentration.
1. Bend your body with your head almost smell the knees, straighten your arms to touch the toe, calm and relaxed. Set a regular breath and concentration. Close your eyes completely shut, and imagine you see a point is all around you (remember, only 1 point and not to the point disappeared from your mind.)
2. Lift body and your hand slowly, breathe the breath slowly through your nose, and imagine you are sucking the imaginary point that is on your mind through the nose.
3. Perform this movement slowly until the upright body position (both hands straight up) while stream of breath from the nose to the chest and the abdomen. In harmony with the flow of breath, imagine you drain the imaginary point from the nose, toward the throat, chest and ends in the stomach.
4. For a few seconds (about 5-15 seconds), keep the body in an upright position (arms straight up). Hold the breath in the stomach while you imagine an imaginary point is spinning fill up in all the space in abdomen.
5. Perform movement back to its original position (bent) while you slowly drain back your breath from the stomach and slowly exhale through the mouth. In harmony with the flow of breath, imagine you release an imaginary point on the stomach is slowly flowing towards the chest, throat, and then slowly toward the mouth and release it from the mouth of an imaginary point to the wild.
6. Perform these movements over and over again with the right moves and in tune with proper breathing and concentration.

If you do this correctly, then you will feel refreshed physically, mind and mental. The basic exercise can be developed with other movements remain always align with the body movements, respiration, and setting of mind (concentration). You also can try other movements such as:
1. Start by standing upright, feet slightly wide open. Then slowly bend to the left side with your left hand touching the foot while the right hand raised straight into the left side above your head. Hold the body in that position for several seconds. Then replace the body bent slowly to the right side followed by the position of right hand touching the leg while the left hand straight to the side right above the head. Do this by breathing technique and concentration. Do alternately, to the left and right.
2. Lie down on the floor with arms straight beside the body and straight legs parallel and tightly. Then start with slowly lift your legs together vertically upward so that your body forms the letter "L". Hold a few seconds, and then lower your leg slowly until it reaches its original position. Repeat the movement several times. Do it with the breathing technique and concentration.
3. Lie down on the floor with arms straight beside the body and straight legs parallel and tightly. Then start with slowly lift your legs and body together vertically upward so that you only relied on the neck (only neck and head that touching the floor). Use your hands to prop your body so that your body and legs straight in balanced position upwards. Hold a few seconds, and then lower legs and your body slowly until it reaches its original position. Repeat the movement several times. Do it with the breathing technique and concentration.
4. Lie down on the floor with arms straight beside the body and straight legs parallel tightly. Then start with slowly lift your legs together until the knees are in front of your face while your toe touching the floor horizontally aligned with your head. Hold a few seconds, and then lower your leg slowly until it reaches its original position. Repeat the movement several times.Do it with the breathing technique and concentration.

Thus, some examples of basic yoga exercises that you can try. Hopefully you can learn it easily. Do it with a relaxed, concentration, and feel the positive effects. Hopefully useful. Good luck.