Sun Salutations are a fantastic place to start your home practise. They work your entire body and help to keep you flexible and strong. Eventually you can sync your breath with the movements and it becomes a flowing Vinyasa or ‘moving meditation’. When you first start practising it can seem like you will never remember what comes next but try not to worry about it too much and just go with the flow. The worst thing that can happen is you do the ‘wrong’ move and that just means you’re making your own one up 🙂
There are a lot of different variations of the Sun Salutation, this is the one I (usually) teach but I encourage my students to start playing and finding their own groove. It’s so important that you don’t get stuck doing a certain routine because ‘that’s the way you always do it’. Listen to your body, ask it what it needs that day and then respect yourself enough to work with that remit. Some days you might want to add challenging fun poses in the middle, you might want to play with jumping forward and back or even adding handstands, and some days you might want to take it really slowly allowing your body to open up naturally or staying in Child’s Pose instead of Down Dog.
Please take this video as a guide, feel free to do whatever you like to the sequence and enjoy 🙂
Namaste.