Sun Salutations

We then learnt and practiced a Sun Salutation. Sun Salutions are a sequence of yoga movements that aim to honour the sun. Starting the session with a sun salutation really put me in focus for the rest of the lesson, it left me feeling open and ready to put as much effort in as possible for the rest of the exercises.

Every transition to different positions are facilitated by either inhaling or exhaling, this is to gain a deep focus on your breathing, making sure it's regular rather than irregular. These movements lengthens your spine and stretches muscles throughout the body, doing the sequence regularly has many positive health impacts on your body. For example; doing the sequence at a fast pace is a good cardiovascular exercise, it helps improve blood circulation as well as adding health benefits to systems throughout the body. The particular sun salutation we did in class focused on stretching and opening up the back of the legs, this meant I had to push myself to carry it out as successfully as possible - which I think I managed to do.

I found the sun salutations extremely interesting to carry out as it really got me to focus on my breathing and as well as carrying out the different positions. I found holding some of the positions for an extended length of time a bit of a task but I know i will be able to improve over the next coming weeks.  I used to do yoga regularly when I was younger but I haven't done it recently so to spend time to really focus on the sequence was really refreshing and left me feeling strangely peaceful.