You regularly attend yoga classes and found the perfect spot to roll out your yoga mat at home? Then nothing stands in the way of your home yoga practice.
To practice yoga alone, you just have to start. Sounds totally banal, but it is just like that. Anyone who always looks for excuses or persuades himself not to be “good” enough will never start. You know your body best, you just have to start listening to it.
Each teacher and practitioner has just found his or her yoga routine over time. Some always or often start with the same exercises. And that’s good! It not only gives you security, but also helps to arrive on your mat on days when you’re completely lost in your thoughts.
Think about which focus you want to set before you go on your mat or while doing the first sun salutations. Would you rather stretch the back of your body or the front? Maybe you prefer to practice a few balance postures?
Every good yoga class follows a certain structure. Start slow, breathe and move your body. This can be done sitting, lying, standing or in a down dog. From there start to get more intensity to your practice and bring the heat in your body and muscles.
There are now countless YouTube videos, online yoga studios and books to help you practice on your own outside of a yoga studio. You can, for example, use books, such as Yoga Workouts designed by Mark Stephens.