- Consult your doctor before beginning yoga
- Avoid eating a large meal 2 hours before practice. Avoid snacks 1 hour before practice
- Wear comfortable clothing, free from restictions like zippers or snaps. Take off jewlery
- Avoid consuming alchohol or drugs prior to practice
- Lay our your yoga mat on a flat, smooth surface
- Practice indoors in a clean place that is not in direct sunlight
- Remove distractions so that you willl not be disturbed
- Consult a qualified teacher or yoga school with questions and feedback on your alignment, or body positioning in the poses
- Always remain aware of your breath during practice. Easy breathing ensures a safe and beneficial practice
- The point of yoga is to enhance your perspective on life
- When doing the yoga postures, the goal is to achieve the delicate balance of steadiness and ease
- The yoga poses are designed to bring health to the body. The yoga positions encourage our joints the explore natural range of motion (it is not contortion). Posture improves
- While yoga is a deep system of study addressing the body, mind and spirit, a curious sense of adventure is all that is required to begin
- A good yoga practice results in a greater sense of well being
- The yoga postures are one of an eight limbed path of yoga, which means to unite the mind, body and spirit






















