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Essential Yoga Poses for Beginners - Yoga Asanas

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  When you’re just starting to try yoga, you may be tempted to leap right into the most visually impressive postures and try to impress your friends with scorpion pose or wounded peacock pose. However, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re only going to hurt yourself. There are yoga poses for beginners for a reason – you need to build up strength, flexibility, and balance while learning the fundamentals of the practice. Once you have mastered these beginner yoga poses, you can slowly work your way up to the more advanced ones. In this post, we will go through some of the best yoga poses for beginners. We’re going to take a slightly different tack here. Instead of focusing on how to perform each pose, we will go through pointers for each to ensure that you are getting it right. Our advice is to sign up for a class so that you can learn the perfect technique from the start. If classes are not an option, we’d recommend looking for a good DVD or online video instead. It’s difficult t