Special Report: New Year New You
Building a sustainable yoga practice
Building a new year home meditation and yoga practice.
By Judi Needham-Crane
Yoga unites the body, mind and breath through the practice of Ashtanga as described in the Yoga Sutras, recorded around 200 years BCE. The first seed of knowledge in the Sutras is:
Yoga is a study, a discipline, that is benefited most of all through a regular practice. Attending a weekly class, online or in person, with a knowledgeable and experienced teacher is vitally important to our practice, as is a daily practice of our own.
Vinyasa flow is a fantastic practice, however unless you have a lot of spare time it isn’t practical on a daily basis.
The simpler the home practice, the more likely we are to adopt it into our routine, such as starting with a five-minute breath meditation, adding in gentle asana (postures). In the Sutras, asana (poses) come before meditation. However, the practice below is an accessible way to begin.