Stress Relief Yoga for Beginners

Stress relief Yoga for beginners is the new add-on to the Yoga kit nowadays.



Whew! If stress, by itself, wasn’t bad enough, now Yoga induced stress. Is that it? Not really, this is more to do with stress busting techniques – what they call the ‘quickies’ – for those who are seeking quick results.

A lot – most, if not all – people nowadays, take up Yoga for stress relief. And most of them are beginners.



And, subsequently, if they don’t see immediate results, they leave. Just give up, pack up and go. So it is the onus of the instructors and teachers to somehow induce them to stay.

Let’s face it, in this day and age of pill culture everything’s result oriented – and user friendly, thanks in large part to technological advancements and the Internet.



So why should Yoga lag behind?

I’d say one of the best stress relief Yoga for beginners is lots of Shavasana. Start with simple warm-up exercises, put them through the stretches, mainly standing, reclining and prone and then put them into Yoga Nidra. That’s another term for Shavasana, the corpse pose. Besides other things, it also induces sleep. But watchful, conscious sleep.

Also, stress relief Yoga for beginners would include lots of simple breathing exercises. Start with the slow 3-part breath or Dirga Pranayama then teach students Kapalabhatti followed by lots of Anuloma-Viloma. Students, especially beginners, also enjoy doing Brahmari. Nothing like the sound of the humming bee buzzing and vibrating in one’s ears. Besides, it gives a soothing, relaxing massage to the nerves, too.

This combination of breathing exercises and lots of Shavasana, preceded by warm-ups and stretches is ideal stress relief Yoga for beginners. The rest follows easily. Once they get the benefit – and the biggest benefit they’re seeking, mind you is RELAXATION! – They’re hooked.

The rest, as they say, is history.