Sun Salutation Yoga
What s a sun salutation.
Sun salutation yoga. Sun salutations are typically performed at the beginning of a yoga routine as a warmup for the whole body. Surya namaskar aka the official name for sun salutations is a sequence of yoga poses or asanas we should say that are typically performed at the start of a hatha or vinyasa flow. This series of moves links your breath and movement with rhythm bringing you into a more. Inhale to extend and exhale to bend.
Sun salutations are a key part of any vinyasa flow style yoga practice. The sun salutation or surya namaskara soor yuh nah muh skar uh is a series of poses performed in a sequence to create a flow of movement. You may not even realize you are doing them but many teachers use them as a warm up at the beginning of class or even base whole classes around them. There are many variations on this sequence but sun salutations a and b are the most common both of which we ll come to in a moment.
Surya namaskar or sun salutation is a series of postures that warms strengthens and aligns the entire body. It serves as an all purpose yoga tool kind of like a hammer that s also a saw and a screwdriver if you can imagine such a thing.