Learn Yoga At Home - How To Get Started

Have you ever wanted to do yoga, but were nervous about going to a class for the first time? Maybe you didn't want to feel like a complete beginner in front of a bunch of strangers...? Don't you wish there could be some way to learn the basics of yoga in the comfort and privacy of your own home, so you could walk into that first yoga class with confidence and self-assurance? Why not learn yoga at home?

Yoga has so many positives. On a physical level, yoga is excellent for your health in general, and will increase your fitness, help you loose weight, increase your flexibility, and can even massage and stimulate the internal organs of your body to help keep away disease. Yoga is also wonderful for detoxing the body, toning your muscles and removing stress and worry from your life. It is the ultimate fitness activity.

But walking into a yoga class for the first time and knowing absolutely nothing can be a very daunting experience.

I know how that feels. When I started yoga a few years ago, I had no idea what I was in for. I had some vague memories of attending one yoga class when I was in high school, but that was it. Would I be fit enough? Would I be able to do all those poses? Would everyone be looking at me?

What I wanted was to learn yoga at home, and then, as soon as I felt comfortable and confident with the basics attend a class. And so I did. Learning yoga at home is possible through a wide variety of DVDs, books or, as I did, through the internet. I subscribed to an online course that gave me video tutorials, diagrams, as well as ebooks to absorb and learn the lingo.

Learning yoga at home using an online e-course gives you the chance to learn at your own pace and to practice at your own speed (no stress keeping up with everyone else in the class.) An e-course will give you the techniques and the understanding to maintain your own yoga practice. You can practice whenever you have the time, when it suits you. And learning yoga at home will save you hundreds of dollars too in the long run.

Of course, one of the most comfortable things about doing yoga at home is that you can do it in any old clothes you feel like. What to wear at the yoga studio can be just as scary as what to wear to the gym. I hate that "competitiveness" just based on what clothes you might be wearing. Do your yoga at home and do it in comfort. Wear your old track pants and a t-shirt. Use an old beach towel for a mat. The most important thing is the yoga and the differences it will make to your fitness.

So get started and learn yoga at home now. Head to the library, get yourself a book or a DVD, or subscribe to an online e-course. But do it now. Your body will thank you for it, and so will your general happiness. Namaste. (It's yoga-speak for 'peace, dude').

By: Nellie Ford

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Nellie Ford is a devoted yogi who really did learn her yoga at home. Although she visits a studio every now and then, Jo does most of her yoga at home these days - classes just never seem to run after the kids are in bed, the dishes are done and the laundry has been sorted...