Yoga For Beginners - How to Do the Sun Salutation in 12 Easy-To-Follow StepsThe Sun Salutation, also known in Sanskrit as Surya Namaskra, offers you a wonderful opportunity to warm -up and gently stretch your back and improve flexibility of your spine. Most yoga classes will start with the Sun Salutation. The Sun Salutation, forms part of the warm-up in most yoga classes. The following 12 steps offer you a simple guide to the Sun Salutation traditionally practiced in a Sivananda Hatha Yoga Class. It consists of 12 flowing positions that allow the body to stretch forwards and bac...
How To Do Yoga Forward BendsNow that we have covered inversions, let's go into the next set of yoga poses in the Sivananda style of yoga; the forward bends. From a simple observation, forward bend poses look very simple and easy but they do have very beneficial effects on the entire system.