How to Start a Yoga Practice

You can feel a deep feeling of harmony in the environment and inside yourself if you practice yoga. However, it's crucial to create the ideal environment indoors and outdoors before you begin. The following five guidelines will help you get the most out of your yoga practice:

1.Verify that your bowels and stomach are empty.
Yoga is a means of improving the human energy system in addition to being a workout. "Anything that is not the body should be out of the body if you want to move your energies upward." Thus, practice yoga after emptying your intestines and before you eat—ideally, in the morning before breakfast. Similarly, you should not consume any food or liquids during the actual yoga practice.

2. Have a bath or shower.
Bathing is more than just washing your skin—it's also a cleansing of the interiors when water comes into contact with the body. Tepid or cool water because it causes "the pores between the skin cells open up, and that’s important for practicing yoga because we want the cellular structure of the body to be charged with a different dimension of energy."

3. Dress comfortably and in loose-fitting attire.
As we have seen, yoga has an effect on the energy system. Clothing that fits loosely aids in this process."You will find that wearing clothing that is too tight will not feel comfortable on your body as your energies start to expand within you. You would naturally desire a garment that fits quite loosely."

4. Before doing yoga, ingest neem and turmeric.
"Eating a tepid, light honey water with neem and turmeric is a wonderful way to dilate and cleanse the cellular structure so that it can absorb energy." When you perform sadhana, the dilatation makes your muscles more flexible. The system can be gradually developed into a more potent option with the help of the flexibility."

5. Make an invocation first.
Before engaging in any yoga practice, consider using an invocation to bring forth your greatest self. Invocations in the yoga tradition are typically made in Sanskrit, an archaic language that relates sounds to shapes directly. Nada Yoga, often known as the yoga of sound, is based on the use of sounds to stimulate the human system. One of the most basic forms of Nada Yoga is an invocation. One basic incantation you may begin with is: