Lets Learn Yoga This basic yoga sequence is called the Sun Salutation its a good way to introduce your body to the practice of A Beginners Guide yoga and get your blood pumping. Try this sequence when you first get up in the morning, or for a boost of and History energy during the day! Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Yoga101 Start in Inhale. Exhale. Bend Inhale. Step right Mountain Raise forward until leg back, arch Today, many people are practicing yoga for physical exercise. It is a low impact activity that acts as a stress reliever as Pose. Bring arms hands touch back, and lift well as a way for people to get in shape. They believe there is nothing wrong with implementing this form of palms over feet. chin. exercise into their daily regiment to promote a more healthy body. But on top of learning how to properly together in head perform yoga, it is also important to know where it comes from. It is also used as a path to spiritual growth and prayer keeping position. palms can be traced back as far as 1000 BC. Here you will learn not only some basics about the practice of yoga, but Exhale. together. also its origin and the history behind this new fitness trend.

Defining Yoga In the Land of Yoga Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 what most people in Western Exhale. Step left leg back Hold breath. Lower Inhale. Stretch Exhale. Curl toes Many people know that there Yoga is most easily traced back to India as its culture think of when they hear into plank position, knees, chest, then forward and bend under, press down are different types of yoga, country of origin. Both in India and all over the term yoga. spine and legs in straight forehead keeping back. Keep arms heels, and lift hips. but what do they all mean? the world as this wellness trend line, support weight on hips up and toes straight. Each is different and follow spreads, all hands and curled under. : the poses of different Hindu principles. Asanas branches of yoga feet. yoga, the positions are practiced one strives to perfect. including Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga: follows the They were formed by Karma Yoga, Jnana spiritual practice of creating a yogis during meditation Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Hatha loving devotion to God.. The and are meant to remove Yoga. Outside of India yoga is most terms Karma, Raja, and Jnana “disease” in ones physical commonly associated with the yoga are also variations on the body Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 same idea of reaching a higher practice of asanas or postures mostly for relaxation and exercise. Inhale. Move left Exhale. Bend Inhale. Stretch arms Exhale. level of spiritual realization. Pranayama: the form of leg back and lift forward until forward then over Gently come breathing used when chin. hands touch head. Bend back to Hatha Yoga: the practice of practicing yoga. Pranayama feet. back from Tadasana physically purifying the body seeks to lengthen, control, and waist slowly. with arms at and training for long periods of regulate the breath through side. meditation. This form of yoga exhaling, inhaling, and still follows the principles of retaining breaths. It is practiced Bhakti and Raja yoga in terms of to develop mental, physical, mental and spiritual growth. It is and spiritual strength. The Evolution of Yoga From a technique used to reach spiritual enlightenment to a way to maintain a healthy and happy body, yoga has developed througout the Post-classical Yoga Modern Yoga Yoga Today years. The timeline below shows the different time periods of yoga and the practices of each. During the period after the Yoga Sutras, Modern Yoga is said to have begun at the Yoga has become more and more there were numerous independent yoga Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893. It was popular over the years and schools and forms developed. This era of during this meeting that a man from India, through its evolution, over 30 Pre-classical Yoga Classical Yoga yoga resembled Vedic and Pre-classical Swami Vivekananda made an impression on an million people today practice yoga Vedic Yoga yoga in the sense that it focused more American man whom he introduced yoga to. regularly. It is the most rapidly on the physical potential of the human The Swami became one of the most popular growing health movement even This early type of yoga, given to the This period in Yoga history spans about 2000 This era of yoga is described as the body. Through deep meditation and members of the Parliament and toured the US though it existed for thousand of public by “Rishis” or Vedic profits, years, until year 200. It is center around eight-limbed yoga explained in the breathing, practitioners strived to keep giving lectures on yoga. Many yoga masters years already. The idea of living a comes from a compilation of hymns secret scriptures that revolve around Sutras, which were written around the the body young and prolong life as it soon followed his lead spreading yoga healthy, long life both physically and rituals called the Vedas, which is meta-physical speculation much like the year 100-200 AC. The Yoga Sutras consist was regarded as the temple of the soul. throughout the globe and founding yoga and spiritually has become central over 3,000 years old. Also known as Vedas. They speak of the complete of about 200 aphorisms or words of This form of yoga paved the way for schools where people fell in love with the all in the lives of many people. As Archaic yoga, it is based around the connectedness of all things and during this wisdom and present yoga as a systematic Hatha Yoga the post commonly different forms and practices of yoga exercise. they search for solutions to many thought of reuniting the material period the concept of an individual system of and approachable practice. Many yogis practiced form of yoga in Western In 1947 Indra Devi (“the first lady of Yoga”) health issues, they turn to yoga to world with the spiritual world and thought began to evolve. As these yoga see it as an important foundation of culture as well as other branches and opened a studio in Hollywood and began relieve the stresses of disease, requires focusing the mind on a teachings were passed down from guru to understanding in the yoga world and schools of Tantra Yoga. teaching Hatha Yoga to the stars and educated economic issues. higher level which is the very root of yogi, the well known Bhagavad Gita was most serious yoga practitioners study its hundreds of Yoga teachers. During the 1950s yoga. being written. The Gita is a story of literature. This step in yoga’s evolution was entered into the world of sports through a conversation between the god of Hinduism consists of two main parts prakiti (matter) book written by Selvarijan Yesudian called Krishna, and a prince named Arjuna. The and purusha (soul) and the goal of yoga “Sport and Yoga” and in 1961 Hatha Yoga was theme of its plot which takes place on a here is to free the soul from the material presented in American television. Stars such as battle field brings to attention the idea that world in order for it to take its pure form. the Beatles helped popularize yoga in the many distractions are present in every day West, becoming a way of life for many people life which later became the main foundation on the West coast of the US. of yoga meditation.