Sun Salutation Flow For Beginners

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.

Sun salutation flow for beginners. But if you are a beginner start with a set of 2 or 3 repetitions and increase the sets as you gain confidence and practice. Some practices of sun salutation say to stay in each pose only for a breath or two while others have you hold each pose for 10 15 breaths. Welcome to the wonderful world of yoga. There are many variations on this sequence but sun salutations a and b are the most common both of which we ll come to in a moment.

They are done in sets of 12. Release your arms to either side and forward bend over your legs as if you were doing a swan. Plant your palms and step or jump back to a plank position. In plank make sure your shoulders are over your.

One sun salutation is said to take about four minutes. Sun salutations are a wonderful practice to elevate your heart rate while strengthening and stretching your entire body. Sun salutations or surya namaskar in sanskrit are the foundation to vinyasa flows and we ll break down each pose in that series. Sun salutation illustrated step by step instructions uttanasana to flat back.

Sun salutation a has fewer poses than sun salutation c so of course sun salutation a will probably take less time. We ll begin with a quick warmup and then move to some half sun salutations. What s a sun salutation. Surya namaskar aka the official name for sun salutations is a sequence of yoga poses or asanas we should say that are typically performed at the start of a hatha or vinyasa flow.