By Ashish

Basic Hatha Yoga Poses for Beginners

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Mountain Pose is a fundamental Hatha yoga pose for beginners. To practice, stand with your feet together, engage your core, and relax your shoulders, while reaching your arms down by your sides. This pose helps improve posture, balance, and mindfulness while promoting a sense of stability and strength.

Mountain Pose

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 In Vrikshasana, stand on one leg and place the sole of your other foot against your inner thigh or calf. Balance and extend your arms overhead. This pose enhances concentration, strengthens the legs, and improves balance.

Tree Pose

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Warrior 1  is a foundational Hatha yoga pose for beginners where you step one foot forward, bend the front knee, and extend your arms overhead, with the back foot turned slightly outward. This pose helps improve balance, strength, and flexibility, while also grounding and energizing the body.

Warrior 1 Pose

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Uttanasana involves bending forward at the hips with your knees slightly bent. This pose stretches the hamstrings, relieves tension in the back, and encourages relaxation.

Standing Forward Bend

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Start on your hands and knees, then lift your hips up and back to create an inverted V-shape. Downward-Facing Dog stretches the entire body, particularly the hamstrings and shoulders, and is great for building strength and flexibility.

Downward Facing Dog Pose

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Kneel on the floor and sit back onto your heels, reaching your arms forward and resting your forehead on the ground. Child's Pose is a restorative pose that promotes relaxation, stretches the back, and calms the mind.

Child Pose

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 Lie on your stomach with your hands under your shoulders and push up, arching your back while keeping your pelvis on the floor. Cobra Pose strengthens the back muscles and opens the chest, promoting flexibility in the spine.

Cobra Pose

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The Cat-Cow Pose is a beginner-friendly Hatha yoga sequence that involves alternating between arching your back like a cat (Cat Pose) and lifting your head and tailbone while curving your spine (Cow Pose). This dynamic movement helps to improve spinal flexibility, relieve tension, and promote a sense of relaxation in the back and neck.

Cat Cow Pose

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