It is quite possible to go on with your yoga practice for a long period without learning a few fundamental things about it. Not having a yoga instructor often leads to this situation. However, it doesn’t mean that if you have a yoga teacher, then you are sure to learn those things. Even yoga teachers often miss these things presuming that students already know about basic yoga fundamentals or because they themselves don’t know the importance of these vital things.
Let’s take look on what are these crucial things that can be easily missed out by a good number of yoga practitioners.
Practice Yoga Empty Stomached
Being empty stomach doesn’t mean fasting. The point is to refrain from having a heavy meal before the practice. To be more precise, wait for more than a couple of hours if you have taken a heavy meal and wait for an hour or so, if you have taken something light, like a fruit. Apart from that, don’t take sips of water after every few minutes, except if you are doing a vigorous form of yoga such as power yoga or Ashtanga Yoga.
Our digestive system needs time to function properly. Not allowing some gap in between your meals and yoga practice can disrupt the digestion, and it may also harm you instead of providing any benefits.
Practice Yoga during Early Morning
You find yoga more effective when you practice it during the morning hours before eating anything. The mind is relatively fresh and empty of thoughts, which allows practitioners to focus more on their moves. And the environment itself fills you with positive energy and makes you more efficient at work.
Every Yoga Posture has a Deeper Meaning
Each and every pose of yoga has a deeper meaning besides benefiting us physically. Poses or breathing patterns that we practice during a yoga class, not only improve our strength and flexibility, but also enhance the functioning of inner organs. Having better awareness about different poses allows us to make our yoga practice most beneficial.
Yoga is a Spiritual Practice
Most yoga practitioners are aware of it, yet many don’t want to learn the spiritual aspect of yoga. Unfortunately, many yoga practitioners avoid learning spiritual aspect of yoga since they believe it is hard to comprehend; when in reality it’s all about opening up to the idea of spirituality. And it’s not that you will have put some extra efforts in learning it; all you have to do is sincerely focus on your practice and the spiritual awareness will come on its own. And by the end of the day, you will realize that yoga has so much more to offer, if only one can comprehend the process as more than just an exercise.
If you are planning to learn yoga in India, and have joined a yoga retreat in Rishikesh or at any other popular yoga destination in the country, then you could be assured about learning these things, since most of the teachers in India understand the importance of including these things in one’s yoga practice.
Let’s take look on what are these crucial things that can be easily missed out by a good number of yoga practitioners.
Practice Yoga Empty Stomached
Being empty stomach doesn’t mean fasting. The point is to refrain from having a heavy meal before the practice. To be more precise, wait for more than a couple of hours if you have taken a heavy meal and wait for an hour or so, if you have taken something light, like a fruit. Apart from that, don’t take sips of water after every few minutes, except if you are doing a vigorous form of yoga such as power yoga or Ashtanga Yoga.
Our digestive system needs time to function properly. Not allowing some gap in between your meals and yoga practice can disrupt the digestion, and it may also harm you instead of providing any benefits.
Practice Yoga during Early Morning
You find yoga more effective when you practice it during the morning hours before eating anything. The mind is relatively fresh and empty of thoughts, which allows practitioners to focus more on their moves. And the environment itself fills you with positive energy and makes you more efficient at work.
Every Yoga Posture has a Deeper Meaning
Each and every pose of yoga has a deeper meaning besides benefiting us physically. Poses or breathing patterns that we practice during a yoga class, not only improve our strength and flexibility, but also enhance the functioning of inner organs. Having better awareness about different poses allows us to make our yoga practice most beneficial.
Yoga is a Spiritual Practice
Most yoga practitioners are aware of it, yet many don’t want to learn the spiritual aspect of yoga. Unfortunately, many yoga practitioners avoid learning spiritual aspect of yoga since they believe it is hard to comprehend; when in reality it’s all about opening up to the idea of spirituality. And it’s not that you will have put some extra efforts in learning it; all you have to do is sincerely focus on your practice and the spiritual awareness will come on its own. And by the end of the day, you will realize that yoga has so much more to offer, if only one can comprehend the process as more than just an exercise.
If you are planning to learn yoga in India, and have joined a yoga retreat in Rishikesh or at any other popular yoga destination in the country, then you could be assured about learning these things, since most of the teachers in India understand the importance of including these things in one’s yoga practice.