Hatha Yoga Sun Salutation Poses

Bring the hands shoulder width apart bring them up over the head and reaching back.

Hatha yoga sun salutation poses. If you have lower back problems or if your knees thighs are rubbing together bring your feel parallel hip width apart. We have several sun salutation sequences available with varying levels of difficulty from basic to intermediate. The 12 sun salutation yoga poses. There are many different approaches to it.

Surya namaskar or sun salutation is a series of postures that warms strengthens and aligns the entire body. Namaskar stands for salutation. Sun salutation poses also known as salute to the sun and surya namaskara in sanskrit are core hatha style yoga practice. What s a sun salutation.

Prayer pose pranamasana upward salute hastauttanasana standing forward bend hasta padasana. A sun salutation is a series of 12 flowing poses done in succession so that one pose transitions gently into the next. It serves as an all purpose yoga tool kind of like a hammer that s also a saw and a screwdriver if you can imagine such a thing. Surya comes from the sanskrit and means sun.

Inhale hasta uttanasana. Today we want to share with you the traditional hatha surya namaskar. The sun salutation is one of the most common dynamic yoga poses today. Sun salutations are practiced 2 6 times in a row and are traditionally practiced at sun rise.

This video is a short introduction about hatha yoga and the sun salutation. You should bend the back slightly. As willful or forceful or the yoga of activity and as sun ha and moon tha the yoga of balance. Hatha simply refers to the practice of physical yoga postures meaning your ashtanga vinyasa iyengar and power yoga classes are all hatha yoga.

Relax the whole body. The word hatha can be translated two ways. Today i want to share with you the sun salutation for beginners which helped me begin my practice in hopes it will help you begin or improve yours. The classical series is used in most hatha yoga traditions with the exception of ashtanga or power yoga.

Proper exercise asanas. Utkatasana or chair pose light on yoga asana yoga pose. Surya namaskar aka the official name for sun salutations is a sequence of yoga poses or asanas we should say that are typically performed at the start of a hatha or vinyasa flow. Sun salutation poses are typically practiced in the morning at sunrise.