Knowledge and Objectives
You will learn a range of poses and how to modify them safely to suit your body and fitness level. Your practice will improve and your body will gradually begin move more freely.
Everyone comes from a different starting point and Yoga is not a race.
1st Rule of yoga is - TO DO NO HARM
Aims
To learn the basic poses and modifications
To learn about your core, how to engage it and the value of core strength.
To be able to move your body through its full range of movement.
To learn ways to stimulate your nervous system, how this can benefit your life and yoga practice.
To learn the importance of breath during yoga and an introduction to basic breath practices.
The objectives are for you to be able to:-
Mobilise your joints
Stimulate your nervous system
Feel more confident in your foot and hand placements
Know how to engage and strengthen your core
Understand how important balance is and tips to improve it
Understand and increase your body awareness
Feel confident in doing a sequence of poses
Bring a breath practice into your daily life
This course is set out so each week has two parts. This will give you some flexibility on how you would like to learn. Each week you can repeat the class as many times as you like. At the end of the week it will automatically take you to the following week.
From here you can go onto Part 7 – 12 to further your learning and build confidence to take part in a yoga class.