As a beginner, it can be challenging to follow yoga purely through audio instruction.
We live in a highly visual world (right now you are most likely reading this on a brightly lit screen), and we even have expressions in our vernacular that say “seeing is believing”, which places emphasis on sight high above our other senses.
In traditional Hatha Yoga (the origin of modern postural yoga), the goal of the practice was to refine our listening skills, in order to hear what is known as the Anāhata Nadam, the unstruck sound. Everything is our world is made up of vibration and we would derive great benefit from become better listeners; better able to hear the soft whisperings of our needs and desires, as well as the needs of others, and the sound of the earth below our feet. It is for this reason that the recordings in the Class Library on this website are audio only, without visual demonstration. As with anything, our skills improve over time through repetition, and what may at first require a lot of focus will in time become second nature (remember when you first learnt to ride a bike?). Having said this, it is of course helpful to start with shorter, more accessible practices, and then build up to longer practices with more challenging āsanas.
Here is a list of the most Beginner-friendly classes in the Audio Library, in order of how I suggest someone newer to the practice should practice them. This list will be updated as new classes are added regularly.
Mini All-Rounder (10 min)
Wake Up + Go (15 mins)
Wake Up + Go 2 (20 mins)
Lunchtime Spinal Release (15 mins)
End of Day Practice (20 mins)
End of Day Practice 2 (25 mins)
Quick Class: Stress Relief (40 mins)
Quick Class: Moon Practice (35 mins)
Quick Class: Moon Practice 2 (35 mins)
Quick Class: Gentle (35 mins)
Quick Class: Yin (35 mins)
Quick Class: Grounding Practice (35 mins)
Quick Class: Immunity Support (35 mins)
Mini Core Practice (20 mins)
Sound of the Universe (60 mins)
Water (60 mins)
Beginners Class (60 mins)
See also:
Yoga Nidra (15 min guided relaxation)
Other Yin classes (60-90 mins in length)
Meditation & Chanting (15 min seated practices)
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