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9 best Yoga Poses for Beginners that I should know before starting

Yoga in a day to day practice keeps a human healthy and fit. So, it is important to know what and which poses are best for you if you are a beginner. Here today I'll be discussing the top 9 best yoga poses for beginner and their benefits and also when and how to do this.

Its origin has been speculated pre Vedic era. Ancient India is used to practicing this since pre-Vedic era. Now it is scientifically proven that yoga has very useful to prevent and also cure many kinds of acute and chronic diseases like Heart disease, cancer, asthma etc.

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9 best Yoga Poses for Beginners that I should know before starting

Yoga Poses for Beginners-


Whether you are a beginner or intermediate or expert it is advisable to start your routine by doing some warm-up exercises or yoga. After this, you can perform the following poses.

  1. Sukhasana
  2. Adho Mukha Svanasana
  3. Vrksasana
  4. Utthita Trikonasana
  5. Dandasana
  6. Paschimottanasana
  7. Baddha Konasana
  8. Upavistha Konasana
  9. Salabhasana

This is the 9 poses which are best for you if you are starting to do this poses or exercises. Below I have given the full details of this poses i.e. what to do when not to do this and their therapeutic benefits.

1.Yoga Poses for Beginners- Sukhasana

Sanskrit Name

Sukhasana

Sukhasana

When not to Perform Sukhasana

Don't do if you have a Knee injury.

Beginner's Tip to follow

Sit with your back to a wall, slightly closer than the length of a yoga block, and wedge the ends of the block between the wall and your lower shoulder blades.

Benefits of doing Sukhasana

  • It helps in increasing concentration power.
  • Strengthens the back
  • Your Knee and ankle will become stronger.

2. Yoga Poses for Beginners- Adho Mukha Svanasana

Sanskrit Name

Adho Mukha Svanasana

Adho Mukha Svanasana

When not to perform Adho Mukha Svanasana

Do not attempt this pose in the following cases-

  • If you have Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • During Diarrhea
  • During Pregnancy
  • High blood pressure or Hypertension.

Modifications

To get a feel for the work of the outer arms, loop and secure a strap around your arms just above your elbows. Imagine that the strap is tightening inward, pressing the outer arms in against the bones. Against this resistance, push the inner shoulder blades outward.

How to take this to next level

To increase the stretch in the backs of your legs, lift slightly up onto the balls of your feet, pulling your heels a half-inch or so away from the floor. 

Then draw your inner groins deep into the pelvis, lifting actively from the inner heels. Finally, from the height of the groins, lengthen the heels back onto the floor, moving the outer heels faster than the inner.

Preparatory Poses-

You can do this poses before doing Adho Mukha Svanasana asanas a pre-workout.

Plank Pose
Uttanasana

Yoga poses to do after Adho Mukha Svanasana

Standing poses
Uttanasana
Headstand

Tip for Beginner's

If you have difficulty releasing and opening your shoulders in this pose, raise your hands off the floor on a pair of blocks or the seat of a metal folding chair.

Benefits/pros of Adho Mukha Svanasana

  • Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression
  • Energizes the body
  • Stretches the shoulders, hamstrings, calves, arches, and hands
  • Strengthens the arms and legs
  • Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
  • Relieves menstrual discomfort when done with head supported
  • Helps prevent osteoporosis
  • Improves digestion
  • Relieves a headache, insomnia, back pain, and fatigue
  • Therapeutic for high blood pressure, asthma, flat feet, sciatica, sinusitis

Partnering/With the help of partner

An accomplice can enable you to figure out how to function the best thighs in this stance. First, perform Adho Mukha Svanasana. 

Have your accomplice remain behind and circle a tie around your front crotches, cuddling the tie into the wrinkle between your best thighs and front pelvis. 

Your accomplice can pull on the tie parallel to the line of your spine (remind him/her to broaden the arms completely, and keep the knees bowed and chest lifted). 

Discharge the leaders of your thigh bones further into your pelvis and protract your front middle far from the lash.

Variations

To move in this stance, breathe in and raise your correct leg parallel to the line of your middle, and hold for 30 seconds, keeping the hips level and squeezing through the foot sole area. 

Discharge with an exhalation and rehash on the left for a similar period of time.

3. Yoga Poses for Beginners- Vrksasana

Sanskrit Name

Vrksasana

Vrksasana

When not to perform Vrksasana

  • A headache
  • Insomnia
  • Low blood pressure
  • High blood pressure.

Modifications

You can remain with your back supported against a divider in the event that you feel shaky in this posture.

How to take this in next level

Similarly, as with Tadasana, you can challenge your adjust by honing this stance with your eyes shut. Figure out how to adjust with no reference to the external condition.

Preparatory Poses

  • Baddha Konasana
  • Utthita Trikonasana
  • Virabhadrasana II

Follow-up of Vrksasana

Standing Poses

Tips for Beginner's

On the off chance that your raised foot tends to slide down the inward standing thigh, put a collapsed sticky tangle between the raised-foot underside and the standing internal thigh.

Benefits/pros of Vrksasana

  • It helps to strengthen your thighs, calves, ankles, and spine
  • Stretches the groins and inner thighs, chest, and shoulders
  • Improves sense of balance
  • It greats helpful for sciatica.

Partnering/With the help of partner

In the event that you are honing Vrksasana with arms raised overhead, an accomplice can enable you to lift and extend your arms. 

First raise your arms opposite to the floor. Have your accomplice remain behind you and press internal against your external upper arms, at that point lift your external arms toward the roof. 

In the meantime, draw your internal arms descending, from the wrists to the highest points of the shoulders.

Variations

Extend your arms straight up toward the roof, parallel to each other, palms confronting, or contact the palms together shaping a reversed V with the arms

4. Yoga Poses for Beginners- Utthita Trikonasana

Sanskrit Name

Utthita Trikonasana

Utthita Trikonasana

When not to perform this

  • Diarrhea
  • A headache
  • Low blood pressure
  • Any kind of heart disease.
  • High blood pressure: Turn the head to gaze downward in the final pose.
  • Neck problems: Don't turn your head to look upward; continue looking straight ahead and keep both sides of the neck evenly long.

Modifications

On the off chance that it isn't conceivable to easily contact the floor with the bare hand or fingertips, bolster the palm on a square.

How to take this in next level

For more experienced understudies, adjust the front-rear area to the back foot curve.

Preparatory Poses

Tadasana
Vrksasana

Follow-up of Utthita Trikonasana

Standing poses, seated forward bends, or twists

Tips for Beginner's

Support your back foot rear area or the back of your middle against a divider in the event that you feel insecure in the stance.

Benefits of Utthita Trikonasana

  • Stretches and fortifies the thighs, knees, and lower legs 
  • Stretches the hips, crotches, hamstrings, and calves; shoulders, chest, and spine 
  • Animates the stomach organs 
  • Assuages pressure 
  • Enhances processing 
  • Calms the side effects of menopause 
  • Calms a spinal pain, particularly during that time trimester of pregnancy 
  • Remedial for uneasiness, level feet, barrenness, neck torment, osteoporosis, and sciatica

Partnering/With the help of partner

An accomplice can enable you to figure out how to move into this posture legitimately. Have your accomplice remain before your forward foot, confronting you. 

Breathe in the forward arm up, parallel to the floor. Your accomplice can get a handle on your wrist and wedge his/her huge toe into the forward hip wrinkle. 

As you breathe out, have your accomplice pull on your arm and push into your hip wrinkle, extending the underside of your middle.

Variations

Rather than extending the best arm toward the roof, extend it over the back of the best ear, parallel to the floor.

5. Yoga Poses for Beginners- Dandasana

Sanskrit Name

Dandasana

Dandasana

When not to perform Dandasana

Any wrist or lower back injur

Preparatory Poses

  • Adho Mukha Svanasana
  • Uttanasana

Follow-up of Dandasana

  • Purvottanasana
  • Bharadvajasana I

Tips for Beginner's

Lay one to three 10-pound sandbags over the highest points of your thighs at the hip wrinkle to help ground your thighs.

Benefits of Dandasana

  • Strengthens the back muscles
  • Stretches the shoulders and chest
  • Improves your posture

6. Yoga Poses for Beginners- Paschimottanasana

Sanskrit Name

Paschimottanasana

Paschimottanasana

When not to perform

Asthma
Diarrhea

Modifications

Most understudies ought to sit upon a collapsed cover in this posture, and most learners need to hold a tie around the feet. Amazingly solid understudies can put a moved up cover under their knees.

Take it to next level

When you are completely in the forward twist you can re-broaden the elbows. There are a few different ways to do this. 

You can catch your hands around the bottoms of the feet, or turn the back of one hand to the bottoms and hold its wrist with the other hand. 

You can likewise put a square against the bottoms of your feet and hold its sides with your hands.

Preparatory-

Balasana
Janu Sirsasana
Uttanasana

Follow-up of Paschimottanasana

Ardha Matsyendrasana

Tips for Beginner's

Never compel yourself into a forward curve, particularly when sitting on the floor. 

Approaching, when you feel the space between your pubis and navel shortening, stop, lift up somewhat, and extend once more. 

Frequently, as a result of snugness in the backs of the legs, a tenderfoot's forward twist doesn't go extremely far forward and may look more like sitting into straight.

Benefits of doing Paschimottanasana

  • Quiets the mind and alleviates pressure and gentle discouragement 
  • Stretches the spine, shoulders, hamstrings 
  • Animates the liver, kidneys, ovaries, and uterus 
  • Enhances assimilation 
  • Assuages the side effects of menopause and menstrual distress 
  • Alleviates a cerebral pain and tension and decreases exhaustion 
  • Remedial for hypertension, fruitlessness, a sleeping disorder, and sinusitis 
  • Conventional writings say that Paschimottanasana expands craving, decreases heftiness, and fixes illnesses.

Partnering/with the help of partner

An accomplice can enable you to discharge your lower back in this posture. 

Have your accomplice remain in the face of you confronting your good faith. 

Play out the stance, at that point have your accomplice squeeze his/her hands against your lower back and pelvis. The hands ought to be turned so the fingers point towards your tailbone. 

Keep in mind however that the weight isn't to push you more profound into the forward curve; rather, delicate weight (parallel to the line of the back) supports the back spine and tailbone to extend far from the middle. 

Expand the front middle against this descending activity.

Variations

Urdhva Mukha (urdhva = upward; mukha = face) Paschimottanasana

Lie on your back, breathe out, and twist your knees into your middle. At that point breathe in and broaden the foot rear areas toward the roof. 

Gradually, on an exhalation, swing your feet toward the floor over your head. You could conceivably have the capacity to achieve the distance to the floor. 

Make an effort not to let the back of the pelvis lift exceptionally a long way from the floor—this is a topsy-turvy adaptation of Paschimottanasana, not Salamba Sarvangasana or Halasana.

7. Yoga Poses for Beginners- Baddha Konasana

Sanskrit Name

Baddha Konasana

Baddha Konasana

When not to perform

Crotch or knee damage: Only play out this stance with a cover bolster under the external thighs.

Modifications

To comprehend the arrival of the leaders of the thigh bones, crease two covers and put one under each external thigh, supporting the thighs an inch or so over their most extreme stretch. 

At that point lay a 10-pound sand pack on each inward crotch, parallel to the wrinkle between the thigh and pelvis. 

Discharge the thigh heads from the weight, and let them sink into the covers. Try not to utilize the packs except if the thighs are bolstered.

Take it to next level

Envision you have two accomplices, each squeezing internal (around the pelvis) on a knee. From the center of your sacrum, push out along the external thighs against this nonexistent opposition. At that point push the foot rear areas immovably together from the knees.

Preparatory Poses

Supta Padangusthasana
Virasana
Vrksasana

Follow-up of Baddha Konasana

Standing poses and most seated twists and forward bends.

Tips for Beginner's

It can be hard to bring down the knees toward the floor. On the off chance that your knees are high and your back adjusted, make certain to sit on a high help, even as high as a foot off the floor.

Benefits of Baddha Konasana

  • Invigorates stomach organs, ovaries and prostate organ, bladder, and kidneys 
  • Invigorates the heart and enhances the general flow 
  • Stretches the inward thighs, crotches, and knees 
  • Alleviates gentle dejection, tension, and exhaustion 
  • Mitigates menstrual distress and sciatica 
  • Mitigates the indications of menopause 
  • Helpful for level feet, hypertension, fruitlessness, and asthma 
  • Predictable routine with regards to this posture until the point that late into pregnancy is said to help ease labor. 
  • Customary writings say that Baddha Konasana annihilates sickness and disposes of exhaustion.

Partnering/With the help of partner

An accomplice can enable you to figure out how to function the internal thighs in this stance. Perform Baddha Konasana. 

Circle a lash over each crotch, with the free finishes of the ties driving far from your back middle. Have your accomplice sit behind you and draw on the ties (opposite to the line of the thighs). 

Your accomplice can likewise squeeze one foot softly against the back of your pelvis in the meantime. Lean somewhat forward, discharging the leaders of the thigh bones from the ties.

Variations

Breathe out and lean your middle forward between the knees. Make sure to approach from the hip joints, not the midriff. Twist your elbows and push them against the inward thighs or calves (however never on the knees). On the off chance that your head doesn't lay serenely on the floor, bolster it on a square or the front edge of a seat situate.

8. Yoga Poses for Beginners- Upavistha Konasana

Sanskrit Name

Upavistha Konasana

Upavistha Konasana

When not to perform

Lower-back injury: Sit up high on a folded blanket and keep your torso relatively upright

Modification

Fledglings probably won't have the capacity to present the middle toward the floor. Take a support or a thickly moved cover and lay it on the floor before you, its long hub opposite to your pelvis. Breathe out into the forward curve and lay your middle down on this help.

Take it to next level

Propelled understudies can enable themselves to advance into the curve. Perform stages 1 and 2 in the principle depiction above. 

At that point connect and fold your record and center fingers over the enormous toes, each match of fingers anchored set up with the thumb. 

Drawback on the toes as you lean forward, yet push effectively through the bases of the enormous toes to keep the inward and external lower legs even. Curve your elbows out to the sides and lift them far from the floor as your middle slides.

Therapeutic Benefits

  • Arthritis
  • Sciatica
  • Detoxes kidneys

Preparatory Poses

  • Baddha Konasana
  • Dandasana
  • Prasarita Padottanasana
  • Supta Baddha Konasana
  • Supta Padangusthasana

Follow-up

  • Baddha Konasana
  • Bakasana
  • Gomukhasana
  • Malasana
  • Padmasana
  • Siddhasana or Sukhasana
  • Supta Padangusthasana

Tips for Beginner's

Upavistha Konasana is a troublesome forward curve for some amateurs. On the off chance that you experience difficulty twisting even a tad forward, it's worthy to twist your knees marginally. 

You may even help your knees on daintily moved covers; however recollect, as you advance into the curve, it's as yet imperative to keep the knee tops indicating the roof.

Benefits

  • Stretches the insides and backs of the legs
  • Stimulates the abdominal organs
  • Strengthens the spine
  • Calms the brain
  • Releases groins

Partnering/With the help of partner

An accomplice can enable you to figure out the activity of the inward thighs in this stance. Perform stages 1 and 2 in the fundamental portrayal above. 

Wrap a tie over your left hip wrinkle and around the left leg and have the accomplice, sitting off to one side, hold the two free closures. She should squeeze her correct foot against your sacrum, her left foot against your external left thigh. 

At that point, as the accomplice pulls on the tie oppositely to the line of your thigh bone, breathe out and turn your middle to one side. Feel, as you turn, how the lash hauls the inward left crotch far from (thus securing) the curve. 

Press your left hand on the floor between your legs, your correct hand on the floor outside your correct hip. Spend a moment winding far from the extending left crotch, at that point discharge with an exhalation, and rehash on the opposite side. 

At long last, play out the full stance as depicted previously. As your middle protracts forward between your legs, imagine that each internal crotch is being pulled far from that development by a fanciful lash.

Variations

Upavistha Konasana has a bent variety. From the upright position portrayed in stage 1, turn your middle to one side with an exhalation. 

Press your left hand to the outside of your correct thigh and right hand on the floor to the outside of your correct hip. With a progression of exhalations, walk your left hand down along the outside of the leg. 

Press the highest point of the left thigh into the floor to fill in as the grapple for this development. Stop at an agreeable place en route or, if your adaptability permits it, achieve your left hand to the outside of your correct foot. 

Ensure, as you wind to one side and move the hand along the leg, that you don't abbreviate your correct side; keep squeezing your correct hand against the floor to help stretch that side of the middle. Remain for a moment. 

To leave this posture, breathe out and swing your middle back to unbiased. At that point come back to upright with an inward breath and rehash to one side.

9. Yoga Poses for Beginners-Salabhasana

Sanskrit Name

Salabhasana

Salabhasana

When not to perform

  • A headache
  • Serious back injury
  • Understudies with neck wounds should keep their head in an impartial position by looking down at the floor; they may likewise bolster the temple on a thickly collapsed cover.

Modifications

Learners at times experience issues holding this stance. You can bolster the zone around your lower sternum with a moved up cover to help keep up the lift of your upper middle. So also, you can bolster the front of your thighs with a sweeping move to help bolster the lift of your legs.

Take it to next level

Propelled understudies can move more with a variety of Salabhasana. Rather than extending the legs straight once again from the pelvis, twist the knees and position the shins opposite to the floor. At that point, as you lift the upper middle, head, and arms, lift the knees as far from the floor as could be expected under the circumstances.

Therapeutic Benefits

  • Fatigue
  • Flatulence
  • Constipation
  • Indigestion
  • Lower-back pain

Preparatory Poses

  • Bhujangasana
  • Gomukhasana
  • Setu Bandha Sarvangasana
  • Supta Virasana
  • Urdhva Mukha Svanasana
  • Virabhadrasana I
  • Virasana

Follow-up

Salabhasana is a decent readiness for the greater part of the "child" back curves, including Dhanurasana and Ustrasana. Other conceivable subsequent meet-ups include:

Bharadvajasana
Salamba Sarvangasana
Setu Bandha Sarvangasana

Tips for Beginner's

Learners here and there experience issues managing the lift of the middle and legs in this posture. Start the stance with your hands laying on the floor, a tad once again from the shoulders, closer to your abdomen. 

Breathe in and delicately push your hands against the floor to help lift the upper middle. At that point keep the hands set up as you do the stance, or after a couple of breaths, once you've built up the lift of the chest, swing them once more into the position depicted above in stage 3. 

Concerning the legs, you can do the posture with the legs lifted on the other hand off the floor. For instance, in the event that you need to hold the posture for a sum of 1 minute, first lift the correct leg off the floor for 30 seconds, at that point the left leg for 30 seconds.

Benefits


  • Reinforces the muscles of the spine, bum, and backs of the arms and legs 
  • Stretches the shoulders, chest, stomach, and thighs 
  • Enhances pose 
  • Fortifies stomach organs 
  • Eases pressure

Partnering/with the help of partner

An accomplice can enable you to figure out the work in the back of the upper arms. Have your accomplice stand straddling your middle while you play out the stance. 

He should then lean forward and squeeze his hands immovably against the backs of your upper arms (triceps). You at that point push up against this opposition. The accomplice may likewise, as he's pushing down on the upper arms, draw the skin far from the shoulders, toward your wrists.

Variations

A testing variety of Salabhasana is called Makarasana (mah-KAH-rah = regularly deciphered as "crocodile" or "dolphin," yet actually "ocean creature"). 

The legs are brought up in this stance precisely as in Salabhasana, however, the fingers are caught and after that, the palms are squeezed against the back of the head, with the pointers snared underneath the base of the skull. With the upper middle lifted, open the arms out to your sides.

The Conclusion-

This is the 9 best yoga poses that should every beginner practice. I hope you will find a few information from this article. Please comment below if you have any questions.

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