Hi All,
I am new to this forum and know little about yoga.
I would like to start doing yoga and i heard that it should be performed under experts’ guidance??
Can anyone please post the links (preferably video inks) to the yogasanas that a beginner can start with. Also pls pourin your suggestions as well.
Thank you,
KP
I started by going to as many classes as I could. I studied Iyengar’s methods.
I visited Bangalore in 2004 and enjoyed my time there.
Welcome to the forum 
Namaste Kiran,
Welcome to the forum and to yoga.
I would suggest that you find a yoga teacher with whom you feel comfortable. I was in Bangalore in 2005 and I know that there are many yoga teachers in the city, you just need to ask around and find a teacher.
Here on this forum we read too many times of people who attempt yoga on their own learning from books, dvd’s and videos with catastrophic effects on their health and bodies usually.
Try to attend at least one class a week or every two weeks, that will help you already so much and lay a good and strong foundation for your future yoga practice.
good luck.
Namaste - glad to have another Kiran here!
Pandara’s advice (as always) is very sound.
Peace,
Kiran
KiranP,
I started yoga without a teacher, from a TV show (I don’t know if it’s on anymore) and from a book. When I went to my first class the teacher adjusted my asanas and I finally experienced what the poses were going after. (Muscular Energy and Warrior III was a memorable revelation.) Sure, I had stretched and strengthened a bit before this by imitating what I saw of yoga, and I knew to be cautious so I avoided physical damage – but that class put things into place that hadn’t been before.
I still prefer a home practice to frequent study with the local teachers I’ve tried, and I still go to books and Yoga Journal (and here) for community and to keep my practice challenged and fresh. But when I do go to a class with one of those local teachers, not a third of the way in to the class we do some asana I just needed (maybe I’d been cheating my alignment at home, or I hadn’t thought or known of it). Things start to hum inside and spontaneously I smile.
Part of it is that the thought and labor of thinking about the sequencing is in another person’s mind, and part of it is the circumstance of being in a community, and part of it is the alignment adjustments I wouldn’t necessarily get to (at least, not as directly.)
Classes are good. I hope you find one.
I started yoga with a teacher though she was a bit manic and eager to move from one pose to the next without pausing much. Introduction alone is enough though
I don’t know if i would have had the inclination to pursue and get into the swing of hatha yoga on my own at home and maintain it , had i not tried out a class.( & having just come off a ten year opioid habit . the disipline requiredmight havemoved over into my practice though i think they both fed into each other. cravings dissapeared as the reprogramming toook place as i saw it, desire actually removed . it was the only thing i had aand i had the temerity to stick with it. i practiced first above a pub. they must have thought i was nuts.)A asana guide at home to learn with just served to kind of remind me what i had done in class. Although was a bit ttedious having consult it in between every posture at first, book in hand.( call me lazy)A home practice certainly did develop but it might have taken about 6 classes, one a week, some six weeks later. By then i was sold, i guess, enough to practice 2 or 3 hours a day for about ten months very early in the morning. I could put a bbook aside after say 3 months without consulting a picture between each asana and focus on the practice. That is a nice stage for someone starting out
I have to say o would’ntmind re-learning as a beginner as bad habits are not good, a solid foundation is. I had my hand placement in down-dog swiftly corrected by the senior teacher when i eventually arrived at a stuido after about 300 say hours of home practice. My arms,hands and shoulders were alright after i will say. I had hands & fingers cupped whereas the teacher instructed me to spread the fingers and hand’s like a ducks webbed feet to help spread the wieght and balance. I would’nt have know this otherwise , and most asana guides, are frankly, from what i see in my local store rather, i venture to say, rubbish or poor quality.
There is so muchi think inauthentic yoga thatis just offered as commercial pap. in all kinds of media. That u-tube is full of it.It’s just presented as an arm of the fitness industry. I guess we have diluted or corrupted yoga here in the west where sometimes resembles something like an aerobics class perhaps. leotards and womenstretching. Probably why it is widely misundestood for cultural reasons and a slight perversion of the art and science. There s a lack of authenticity because if it does’nt generate money it cannot justufy or prove it’s value to folk.
I suppose the world is’nt perfect. better some kind of yoga than none at all though.
To OP
Find a well-trained ( and experienced) teacher so you are lucky enough to start off in building a good solid foundation. Progress should be quicker and you are lesslikely to get injured or store up the chances of injury or issues arising in the future. And You will learn good habits from the start, not bad ones.
find an experienced teacher- they are familiar with most of th commn pitfalls and issues you [B]do[/B] want to avoid.