Beginner’s Guide To Yoga: Poses, Benefits, And Tips
Yoga is an awesome way to improve your body and brain. Good for you physically and mentally. But stepping into a yoga studio for the first time can be intimidating. I know it was for me. The thought of them saying “Do this pose” and I don’t know what it is or how to do it was terrifying.
Yoga is scary and you may not think it can possibly be for you, but yoga is for everyone! Here is my beginner’s guide to help you ease into yoga so you can be more confident in your poses!
Beginner’s Guide To Yoga
Start with four of these simple poses to build your foundation:
- Mountain Pose – You stand tall feet together, and relax your shoulders, arms at your side. Take a deep breath and raise your hands over your head, palms touching each other, and reach as high as you can with your fingers pointed at the sky. Easy right?
- Downdog or Downward Dog – Start on your hands and knees, make sure your wrists are aligned with your shoulders and knees with your hips. Tuck your toes under and lift your hips up and back making your legs straight so you are like the letter V shape with your body and keep your head between your arms. Feel the stretch?
- Child’s Pose – Kneel on the floor, sit back on your heels, and fold your body or push your body forward, bringing your forehead to the ground. Stretch your arms out to the sides of you or straight out in front of you overhead.
- Warrior – Stand with legs wide apart. Turn your right foot out 90 degrees and left foot in (just a little bit) Bend your right knee over your right ankle and keep your left leg straight. Raise your arms over your head and put your palms together. (This is my favorite one)
So Many Benefits Of Yoga
Flexibility, strength, and balance, to start. Do it on the regular so you stretch and tone your muscles and calm your mind because it promotes mental clarity—a true peace of mind. The breathing you learn in yoga is amazing too. It will lower your blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Yoga is for everyone! Good luck!
If you are a beginner a couple of things to remember… Start slow, listen to your body, stay consistent, and be patient. As with anything practice makes perfect. You aren’t going to do it perfectly in the beginning but the more you do the more you will learn and the better you will feel. You will end up in the front of the hot yoga classes with the Yogis in no time!
Namaste!
7 Apple Updates You Will Be Excited About
Apple Updates come all the time but during the WWDC 2024, they made some massive changes that every Apple Mac, iPad and iPhone user should be very excited about. Here’s more directly from the Apple company’s mouth.
Introducing Apple Intelligence, AI for the rest of us. And exciting updates coming with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2.
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Keep in mind, I am not a tech reporter or anything like that but I am a user of Apple products so I wanted to share my thoughts!
Apple Updates Includes Apple Intelligence, Kind Of
This move to Apple Intelligence greatly improves Siri on all of your devices. That is a huge portion of what was talked about during the huge Apple event on June 10th. But that’s not the only thing we are going to get into on this article.
Apple Updates Coming Soon With New iOS
The new iOS was introduced which is a fancy way of saying operating system for Apple devices. What this means is our phones are going to add quite a few features to make them work harder for us and learn more about our habits.
Keep in mind though, in order to use all of the features of the brand new Apple Intelligence, you might have to get a new device. Other than that, most of the new Apple updates can be used on your current device.
Let’s Get Into Your Apple Updates
The new iOS 18 has a lot of useful things that you should know about before making the update on your phone. Keep in mind, some features will not be available on your device depending on the generation of your device or storage limitations on that device.
