Types of Yoga Poses
There are 5 types of yoga poses. Each of them has different benefit. You should start with basic sitting yoga poses before go on to the advance one.
Yoga poses in this group help strengthen the muscles of your legs, calves, ankles, knees, belly and bottom. They also help relieve your back pain. Some poses are for balancing body such as tree posture,
Sitting yoga poses are the basic postures to prepare your body before processing other pose groups. Some of these poses are designed for meditation. Sitting poses help extend your spine, ankle and knee muscles.
These yoga poses are postures to proceed after standing or sitting poses. They befit your back in that they strengthen your back muscles and make your spine flexible. These postures can stimulate your intra-abdominal organs to function well.
Yoga postures in this group are not difficult to exercise. They help strengthen back and abdominal muscles and relieve your back pain. Some poses are designed for relaxation such as yoga corpse pose (Savasana).
This group of yoga poses helps bring blood to circulate more in your head such as headstand yoga pose and shoulder stand pose etc. However, those who have high or low blood pressure and those who have cataract and glaucoma are not allowed to practice these poses.
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