What are the precautions for practicing yoga

Winter is the season when many diseases are prevalent. Our respiratory system or immunity will be weakened. At this time, if we insist on regular yoga practice, it can help our body enhance its ability to adapt to the cold and improve its resistance. It can reduce the occurrence of diseases and enable us to gain more strength and make the body stronger. So what are the precautions when practicing yoga?

General yoga practice requires fasting. Generally, you cannot eat for two hours before and two hours after practice. Some yoga practices require you not to eat for three hours before practice. In fact, how long should you fast before practicing yoga? There is no need to set a rigid limit of two or three hours. As long as you can maintain a state of neither hunger nor fullness while practicing yoga, there is no problem in drinking an appropriate amount of water, beverages, milk, etc. half an hour before practice. After the practice, as long as the body returns to normal, you can eat normally. Half an hour is enough.

Do you often feel numb all over and unable to move after staying in one position for a few minutes? Be careful, be careful, your blood circulation is so slow that it's protesting to you with numbness! Remember, you must warm up first to avoid hurting your body like a fossil! "Warming up" is something you must do before doing any exercise, especially before starting yoga practice. Whether you are a completely motionless fossil or an active person who exercises regularly, "warming up" is a very important and necessary sports safety concept before doing any exercise to avoid unnecessary sports injuries.

Yoga is one of the activities that is least restricted by venue. However, as yoga involves many soft movements, it is inevitable that the limbs and muscles will be squeezed during practice. Therefore, you should avoid practicing on hard floors or too soft spring beds, otherwise you may get abrasions or get injured due to loss of balance. Therefore, when doing yoga at home, it is best to lay a blanket or a large towel or a yoga mat on the carpet or floor and practice.

Every day we have to face busy work and trivial life, and people will be under a lot of pressure. This is the time to practice yoga. Because practicing yoga emphasizes breathing. When you calm down and breathe with your limbs, you will have close contact with your body. As you practice slowly, you will find that your stress is relieved very well.