Yoga Poses for Beginners: Savasana, Padmasana, Vrikshasana, Tadasana, Trikon asana

Yoga is an ancient Indian Vedic exercising technique, to gain a healthy body This article emphases on few important yoga poses for beginners.

Yoga benefits are tremendous, so make yoga part of your exercise. Yoga improves overall health through flexibility, stretching, and relaxing your body. Research has shown that yoga can reduce anxiety, depression, stress and beat chronic pain along with mental disorders.

There is no fixed time limit for doing yoga, you can do it for as long as it is possible. Short yoga gives you low benefits, while long, high benefits. Here are beginner yoga poses that are simple and easy to do and reduce weight, pain, and anxiety.

Corpse Pose (Savasana)

The Corpse Pose is one of the best yoga poses for beginners, and a yoga session is incomplete without it. Savasana has several benefits for overall health, including calming the mind, central nervous system, digestive system, and immune system, reducing stress, headache, anxiety, and fatigue, controlling lower blood pressure, and promoting spiritual awakening.

How to do it

• Sit on the mat with your knee bent and take your feet as wide as your mate
• Spread your hand alongside your body with the open palm
• Close your eyes and inhale a deep breath through your nose, but take care not deep
• Stay a few seconds in this position and then exhale through your mouth
• Keep your mind active at this moment and relax your body.

Easy Pose (Sukhasana or Padmasana)

It shows by its name that it is easy to do, and millions of people do it with sitting crossed legs. Another name for Easy Pose is Sukh asana (the word Sukha means joyful). This type of yoga leads people toward concentration, and they feel true joy from the bottom of their hearts. Easy Pose improves concentration, reduces depression, removes tension from shoulders and arms, supports hips, and relieves knee pain.

How to do it

• Sit on a yoga blanket and extend your leg outward.
• Cross your leg slowly as you sit with a crossed leg
• Keep hands on the knee with your palm down and straighten the shoulder
• Relax your body and put your whole-body weight around sit bones
• Inhale deeply and exhale breath for two to three seconds, focus on this workout, and stay in this position for a few seconds
• After some minutes, change the crossed-leg position and repeat the process

Tree Pose (Vrksasana)

Tree Pose yoga maintains body balance, strengthens back muscles, legs, ankles, and shoulders, improves concentration, and shapes your body.

How to do it

• Stand on the mate with a straight body, straighten your arms, put your weight on your foot equally and focus on this position.
• Find an object of attention in front of you and keep your gaze on it
• Put your weight on your left leg and raise the right leg slowly and keep your foot on the left thigh in a particular position so that the toes should point downward
• Raise your arms straight up on the upper side of your head and take in prayer position

Mountain Pose (Tadasana)

Tadasana is a primary yoga pose in all standing yoga. You can do it to practice other standing poses, but it has its recognition as Tadasana, Tada means mountain, and asana means posture. Mountain poses can improve your body posture and energy level and reinforce your Knees, thighs, ankles, abdomen, and buttocks.

How to do Mountain Pose

• Stand straight so that your whole-body weight divides equally on your foot and spread your toes wide.
• Inhale with your nose, and raise your arms toward the ceiling, interlock fingers with palms pointing upward
• Raise your shoulder, exhale, open your chest, rotate your shoulders away from your ears, and straighten your posture
• Stay in this pose from 5 to 10 breaths.
• Relax your body part, including your eyes and face

Triangle Pose (Trikonasana)

Triangle Pose has a unique style in almost all types of yoga. The triangle pose strengthens leg and back muscles, improves lung function, stretches hamstrings, inner thighs, shoulders, calves, chest, and spine, and Improves balance and concentration.

How to do it

• Stand straight, spread your legs, turn your body so that the direction of your feet changes, stretch your right foot, and maintain body balance equally on your feet.
• Inhale, and when you start to exhale, put your hand on your right foot and raise your left hand toward the ceiling.
• Keep your gaze on your left hand, concentrate on this moment and try to stay for 5 to 6 breaths.
• Relax and repeat  this pose in opposite directions.

We hope you like our above article on yoga poses, as yoga and pranayama are a popular ancient health practices originated in Indian Continent, this should be a part of our daily exercise routine to gain more health benefits.

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