August 6, 2020

beginning yoga

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tlc tlc, Level 79
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July 18, 2021

Hi - In the seven months since I began doing yoga videos on Grokker, I found the following to be very helpful:
(a) beginning with Siri Peterson Cavanna's Yoga for Beginners program FIRST. Siri Peterson Cavanna offers a very gentle pace and very lavish, detailed, smart cuing.
https://grokker.com/yoga/beginners/program/yoga-for-beginners-with-siri-peterson-cavanna/56c4cb8555ebe0d0080df682
(b) trying out some of Grokker's non-premium videos curated from the web. When I was a TOTAL beginner, I loved these videos by Jen Hilman, Erica Vetra and Courtney Bell. You might find more videos that you like in the following two collections:
https://grokker.com/yoga/collection/flow-yoga-beginner-intermediate/60ce43f84cb7214269a7ea13
https://grokker.com/fitness/collection/yoga-with-adriene-mishler/6009c7453fa6704a3439b548

tlc tlc, Level 79
tlc tlc74 points
July 18, 2021

(c) AFTER getting some of that gentler yoga under my belt, trying out Grokker's other marvelous premium yoga programs for beginners, which in my view are geared toward advanced beginners with some experience and some prior basic familiarity with sun salutations. Be forewarned: Michael James Wong inserts crow pose into a beginner-level video, and both Celest Pereira and Julie Montagu teach sun salutations at a somewhat fast clip. These programs are FANTASTIC preparation for intermediate-level vinyasa flow yoga (which, after seven months of persistent trial and error, I now find to be tremendous fun) --- but for total, complete beginners like I was seven months ago, I would recommend starting with steps (a) and (b) before tackling (c). Best wishes!
https://grokker.com/yoga/vinyasa/program/3-steps-to-yoga-with-celest-pereira/57dbf7e596a02c934191d55c
https://grokker.com/yoga/program/yoga-basics-the-beginner-s-guide-with-celest/57dbf89c96a02c934191d5a6
https://grokker.com/yoga/beginners/program/beginner-s-guide-to-yoga-with-michael-james-wong/5727bea7ae15771574119c49
https://grokker.com/yoga/beginners/program/everyday-yoga-level-1/5db0890a8ce7ab34f4ad553c

tlc tlc, Level 79
tlc tlc74 points
tlc tlc, Level 79
tlc tlc74 points
tlc tlc, Level 79
tlc tlc74 points
tlc tlc, Level 79
tlc tlc74 points
tlc tlc, Level 79
tlc tlc74 points
July 13, 2021

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Ann Abbott, Level 50
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December 18, 2020

Julie Montgue is great ....she has a beginner program too.

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