How to do yoga by user18616

It took me

1 month

It made me

Great

"It's great that I finally did it"

How I did it: I've done yoga classes and yoga at home. I'd recommend using a DVD at home for a few reasons.

- need less time, I started with 30 minutes every other day, compared to about 100 minutes if you go to 1h yoga class + 20 minutes back and forth

- less reasons not to do it, if you go to classes after work, there's always the chance that you can go for drinks and skip yoga

- easier to fit in your schedule, do it whenever you want rather than whenever the class is scheduled (I'm an early bird so this works quite well for me before work)

Cons:

- slower to learn although at the classes I've attended there are so many people that you don't get a lot of attention unless you're doing something really wrong

- might learn something badly and habits are changed harder later

The way it worked for me is I started with 30 minutes every other day. The DVD I got has multiple routines at different lengths, most are 20 - 60 minutes with some at 10 and 70.

I like it because the different routines complement each other and I got used to the instructor. I went for rotating between different routines after 2-3 weeks and I'm switching them from time to time. Maybe 1 - 1.5 months now.

Good luck.

Lessons & tips: Start small, you'll have less reasons not to do it / procrastinate. As you get used to it you can build up to doing lengthier routines more often.

Resources: Yoga for beginners DVD

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May 12, 2012, 03:14AM PDT | 1 comment | 7 cheers

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Lianne Connell Back in London

Hey this was really handy =-) I am going to grab a DVD to start tomorrow and will introduce one class a week next week.
Thanks for your help!!
Lianne xx

May 22, 2012, 03:32PM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

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