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Beginner Yoga Sequence Guide

This document provides instructions for a beginning yoga practice sequence and includes poses such as Mountain, Triangle, Warrior I, Warrior II, Downward Dog, Shoulder Stand, and Plow along with general guidelines. It recommends not worrying about mistakes, practicing carefully if injured, using props, focusing on breathing, and consulting yoga texts for pose details.

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Beginner Yoga Sequence Guide

This document provides instructions for a beginning yoga practice sequence and includes poses such as Mountain, Triangle, Warrior I, Warrior II, Downward Dog, Shoulder Stand, and Plow along with general guidelines. It recommends not worrying about mistakes, practicing carefully if injured, using props, focusing on breathing, and consulting yoga texts for pose details.

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  • Beginning Yoga Practice Sequence

Your Beginning Yoga Practice Sequence

Instructions: 1. Dont worry about making mistakes. Your poses willimprove with practice. 3. If you have a chronic or acute injury, do only those poses recommended by your teacher, with appropriate modifications. 3. Practice in bare feet on a non-slippery surface. 4. Repeat difficult poses several time in quick succession, rather than holding them for a long time. 5. Modify the poses with props (blocks, chair, wall, belt, etc.) as necessary. 6. Remember to breath. Keep facial muscles, jaw, throat and abdomen relaxed. 7. Women should avoid inversions, strenuous standing poses and backbends during menses. 8. For details about how to practice the postures, consult Light on Yoga: A Gem for Women, Yoga: The Iyengar Way, or your teacher.

Tadasana (Mountain)

Utthita Trikonasana (Triangle)

Utthita Parsvakonasana (Extended Angle)

Virabhadrasasna I (Warrior I)

Virabhadrasasna II I (Warrior II)

Parsvottanasana (Intense Side Stretch)

Uttanasana

Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Dog)

Salambha Sarvangasana (Shoulder Stand)

Halasana (Plow Pose)

Dandasana

Janu Sirsasana

Pashcimottanasana (Intensive Stretch of the West)

Virasana (Hero)

Supta Virasana (Reclining Hero)

Bharadvajasana

Savasana

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