These preparatory exercises give the muscles and joints of your body enough strength and flexibility to prepare the beginners for yogasanas. Keep your movement free flowing, slow and smooth. Let your movements be in tune with breathing.
Exercise1
- Stand straight, separating your legs by one feet. Let the hands lie on the sides of your body and look straight.
- Inhale and raise both your hands above your head with your palms facing each other.
- While exhaling, bend your waist and bring your hands down to touch your feet. Your knees should not bend.
- Inhale, raise your waist, and come back to the initial position.
- Take normal breath.
Exercise 2
- While inhaling, raise the hands to your sides at shoulder length, parallel to the ground.
- While exhaling bend forward and let your right hand touch the thumb of your left foot. Take your left hand straight above.
- Inhale and take the initial position.
- While exhaling bend forward and let your left hand touch the thumb of your right foot.
- Exhale and bring the arms down to normal position.
- Take normal breath.
The initial steps in breathing exercise
- Lie down on your back, close your eyes and relax your body.
- While inhaling, fill the lower part, middle part and then upper part of your lungs.
- Push the stomach forward.
- Push the ribs sideways.
- Lift your chest and collar bone.
- While exhaling empty the upper part, middle part and the lower part of your lungs.
- Relax your chest and collar bone.
- Relax your stomach and expel the air out.
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