Ashtanga Yoga Class 1026

Class 1 of the Ashtanga Beginners' Course. This class focuses on using breath, body locks (bandhas) and gaze (dristi) to focus your mind and flow safely through the practice. Sun Salutation A will help you build up your strength, flexibility, physical awareness and focus in preparation for what lies ahead.

Basic

Michaela Clarke

20 min

No Sweat

Breathing

No Prop

Comments

Harry N

Thank you Michaela I need to watch a few times could not quit get the breathing though the throat .
Kind regards
Harry

Amit - yoopod .

Hi Harry
Thanks for your comment. Please do practice this class a few more times until you feel comfortable with it and ready to progress.
As for breathing - you may find the below clip helpful.
Kind regards
Amit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJclhaadXK0

Joanna M

Thanks for this class, it was a bit quick for me. One point I wasn't clear about is the bandas - the teacher says when to start doing a banda, but I wasn't clear when to stop. Is it that you keep a banda lock going through out the class?

Amit - yoopod .

Thanks for your comment Joanna. If you enjoyed the class I would suggest repeating it a number of times until you don't need to watch the screen for instructions and can only listen to her voice and practice comfortably with her. Keeping the Banda lock for a whole practice is probably impossible... you would start/stop throughout the class but over time the "start" will become second nature and the "stop" would be just a reduction in the lock rather than a complete release. I hope this makes sense. BW, Amit

Joanna F

There is no sound on this video - audio would be helpful!!
Thanks

Amit - yoopod .

Hi Joanna
Sarah is right... all players these days start automatically on mute (because people use them a lot in public spaces) and then the user needs to actively un-mute it.
If you have any other tech issues please do drop us a line support@yoopod.com
BW Amit

Sarah A

The class has sound. Sometimes, on a device it starts muted and you need to unmute it.

Tom B

As a beginner to yoga in general, I found this too fast paced with too many new concepts being introduced in a short space of time. I was hopping all over the place before I'd even managed to get the hang of the breathing. Is there a different style of yoga I should try first to get used to the basic positions?

Amit - yoopod .

Hi Tom. Thanks for your comment. Can I suggest that you try the Basic level classes by one of the below teachers and see how it goes? Please feel free to email me with any further questions. Best, Amit. amit@yoopod.com
Stewart (https://www.yoopod.com/teachers/stewart-heffernan)
Sussane (https://www.yoopod.com/teachers/susanne-lahusen)
Sophie (https://www.yoopod.com/teachers/sophie-coats)

ellie S

Thank you for providing this level for me I am a complete beginner and was in need of this information I am going to follow the course x