Beginner Sun Salutation Yoga
Consult your sri sri yoga teacher to find the best yoga poses that should follow surya namaskar.
Beginner sun salutation yoga. A sun salutation also known as surya namaskar is a traditional yoga practice that in today s modern culture is made up of 12 poses that are linked together to form a flow. Sun salutations originate over 3 500 years ago and were traditionally a spiritual practice and used as a way to worship the sun and therefore were traditionally practiced at sunrise. We will start by getting into our body with a short meditation. It serves as an all purpose yoga tool kind of like a hammer that s also a saw and a screwdriver if you can imagine such a thing.
You can go to a yoga class almost anywhere in the world and there s a good chance you re going to be practicing some style of sun salutation if you re doing a vinyasa flow style practice where breath and movement is linked. In vinyasa flow and beginner yoga classes however sun salutations are generally used as a warm up flow. Combine it with other yoga postures although sun salutation is a complete body workout it is good to top it up with other more intense yoga postures for a complete fitness experience. Sun salutations are typically performed at the beginning of a yoga routine as a warmup for the whole body.
This series of moves links your breath and movement with rhythm bringing you into a more. There will be no life on the earth without the sun it is showing gratitude or paying respect to the sun that is the source of all forms of life on the earth. Complete beginners in this yoga class we will explore easy poses that will help you find more ease in your body. The sun salutations are the common language in the physical yoga practice.
Focus on the breath perhaps more important than mastering the alignment of each posture is focusing on the breath. Sun salutations or surya namaskar in sanskrit are the foundation to vinyasa flows and we ll break down each pose in that series. Surya namaskar or sun salutation is a series of postures that warms strengthens and aligns the entire body. Then we will start with slow and easy movement that are comfortable for beginners and help align the body and soul for the practice.
Whether this is your very first sun salutation or if you re still getting acclimated to the vinyasa yoga practice this is a great video for beginner yogis.