Master Asanas
Whether you are a beginner or a regular yoga practiser, there is always atleast one troublesome pose that you are still striving to master upon. This is a great thing about yoga because there is always something challenging and it keeps the boredom of routine away as novelty is always retained. Yoga is not about straight away doing everything in the right manner at one go. It takes consistent practice to master any posture.
Your troublesome pose need not be necessarily an advanced level asana or a super complicated posture. It all depends upon your body type. People who are very strong possess tight muscles as a result they often find it very difficult to try even simple poses. On the other people with flexible bodies often lack the needed strength to practice poses that involve strength.
So irrespective of your body type or the pose that you feel it difficult to be practiced, here’s what you can do instead of completely giving up the hope.
The first obstruction
The first and foremost obstacle anyone faces is their own mindset. Mastering an asana completely depends on your willingness to repeatedly try it until you finally get to it. Reluctance to do it with preoccupied notions will help you in no way. When you succeed in overcoming this barrier setup in your own mind, you are already half way through. This is the most critical and important step in your practice.
Learn from your mistakes
You should be ready to make mistakes and learn from them. And most importantly you learn about your own self in yoga. So try the pose, no matter even if you utterly fail. Keep trying hard until you each your goal. All through these failures you will learn about your weaknesses and the points you lack attention which can be rectified in the next sessions of practice. So face your failure boldly. Yoga Faculty provides the best training faculty for yoga teacher training in India, who gives the best guidance to learn and rectify your mistakes in yoga.
Break down the pose
You need not practice the asana in a single attempt. You can break the practice into a number of simple steps before you reach the final posture. You can do all these steps in a cumulative approach when you feel comfortable. Any asana would be a combination of forward or backward bends or few twists. Separate each of the bends and twists into as many number of poses as possible and try to practice each one at a time initially. Eventually this will make the asana simpler for you to practice. Continue to practice these bits and parts gradually until you succeed in getting to the final posture at ease. If you practice all at once, it could become too much of information to your body and your body might fail to take it all.
What if you are not able to succeed?
If you are not able to do it for any reason like medical reason or it is too challenging for your body, just do whatever is permissible for your body. Just allow whatever your body can take. Make peace with your body and understand it. Because yoga is all not about mastering the postures alone. It is more about how you do than what you do. It is the willingness to give a try and know what works for your body because is the best and only medium available to explore your – self. You are successful even if are able to get to only a fraction of the posture, because you have retained the essence of yoga.
