PREPARING FOR YOGA PRACTICE

TOP 10

By Ramsay Mead, RYT

• Choose an area to practice in a warm, quiet, clean and airy place.

• Practice yoga on an empty stomach or two hours after a light meal.

• Practice regularly for 15-30 minutes daily is preferred.  Or utilize specific postures to do when you choose to throughout the day.

• Practice in bare feet wearing light, comfortable clothes.

• Remove glasses and/or jewelry and anything resistive.

• Empty the bladder but keep hydrated during the session.

• Women should avoid asanas during menstruation

• Always begin practice with breath work to set proper respiration and to give the mind the focal point throughout the practice.

• Perform asanas standing first, seated second, and lying and inverted last.