Motivation: doing yoga at home

Motivation: doing yoga at home

yoga at home

Some tips to get motivated and practice (a little) yoga at home.
In theory, practicing yoga at home offers many advantages: you do what you want and especially when you want! No schedule, no outfit (well, anyway). But, we often do not know what to do or how to do it.
I often practice alone, at the studio or at home. Sometimes complete practices, sometimes some targeted postures. It also makes it possible to stop on postures that you do not understand, that you do not practice long enough in the course ... and it is also a good way to better know your body, its facilities or what the " we need to work. At home, we have all our time! (in any case, the one we agree).
Practice at home is to disconnect for a few moments from the outside world: phone, TV, mails ... (for the maniacs like me, I advise you to do housework, laundry, ironing ... before you start. more liberated ;-)).

Make the point
♦ Set a time schedule.
♦ On the postures you like, the ones you like less. What makes you feel good and what you need to work for.
♦ What do you want to "get" from this practice? Be calmer, breathe better, relax yourself ... You can set an intention, an objective.
Fitness
Enjoy!
You have to feel like practicing yoga at home. It must be a moment of pleasure, calm, exploration, not another chore in the day.
If you feel tired, demotivated and you do not want to practice: Relax, nothing dramatic here.
Also remember how you feel after a session: it can help.
And do not lose sight of the fact that you do it for yourself: just listen to your body and your needs.
I sometimes schedule a complete session to finish practicing only a few postures. Or to orient it completely differently.
If it's really too hard today ... No guilt. It is simply not the day to practice and it is in those moments that one is likely to get hurt.
For the anecdote, I happened to unroll my carpet, to sit on it and ... to go back to bed. Well yeah!

 Keep a notebook (or your app Note)
You can note what you want: your questions, your emotions, your questions about postures or yoga in general, what you have understood or not during a session, what you observe in the body and in the mind. That for which you are content (in life) or why you are less so.
I am not very assiduous myself (notebook question) but I still take a lot of notes, especially on my readings. I have a fairly comprehensive book of my practices, reflections, quotes from my experience and my training in India. It is enriching, interesting and sometimes funny to plunge back into it. You can easily see its evolutions and blockages, small gold mine for your practice therefore.
You can also focus on breathing in bed or meditate on a specific question, such as why I can not practice yoga this morning?

♥ To organize your practice:
You can choose one or two postures per week that you want to deepen.
There are many online tutorials in which the postures are detailed and well explained. Remember to start with a few stretches or warm-ups like several greetings in the sun and prepare the parts of the body that will work. Going to class will also let you know some of these postures, especially so as not to hurt you during your practice. Sometimes it was impossible to execute the postures that had been set. We let go and we move on to another, waiting to come back later.

Take classes with a teacher
Mix both, it's ideal.
In the "real" classes, you learn new postures, you can ask questions, practice with others, relax more easily, know the indications or contraindications of certain postures. It seems wiser, especially if you're just starting out. In short, you enrich your practice.

Make for yourself a little "space"
Choose a place you like, in which you feel good, quiet, with ample space to be comfortable when you move.
You can light candles, use a diffuser of essential oils, dim lights ...

Listen to music
Music allows me to concentrate, to fix my intention, not to pay attention to all the little noises that surround us. I usually use my playlists (they usually last 1:15 for a "full" session or sometimes Hindu songs on youtube.
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