Review: Yoga.about.com – The Perfect Website for Yoga Beginners
June 17, 2009 by Gail Grannum
Filed under Yoga Poses Beginner
If you are looking for a website which provides all that you ever wanted to know about yoga, then you should definitely checkout yoga.about.com. The website is perfect for yoga beginners who have always wanted to take the plunge, but just didn’t know how to. Ann Pizer is the yoga.about.com guide. She is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and she wants to make it easy for a yoga beginner to understand the essentials of different yoga poses and motivate them to make it a regular part of their daily schedule.

Ann Pizer Yoga Instructor
- For the yoga beginner, yoga.about.com offers a seven-week crash course. The course aims at helping a beginner pick the right yoga style, lose weight in a healthy way, learn about proper yoga etiquette, and how to avoid injury during yoga practice. The course teaches the principles and origins of yoga and also teaches the yoga beginner some easy to practice yoga poses or asanas.
Yoga.about.com offers comprehensive information about yoga basics and different yoga styles. The website offers quizzes, tools, and information to help you choose the right yoga style based on your individual needs and flexibility.
- If you are interested in learning yogic breathing and meditation, yoga.about.com provides detailed information about the basics and the philosophy behind them. There are articles which provide comprehensive information on the therapeutic benefits of different yoga poses. Whether you are looking for weight loss or for improving your sex life, yoga can help and the website tells you exactly how it can help.
- If you are pregnant, there is a special section on the website for you. There is a four-week course which provides you information about how you can modify yoga poses as your pregnancy progresses.
And the website is not only for yoga beginners. If you are interested in some advanced forms of yoga, there is a lot of information present on this website that you can use.
And if you are not sure how to design your yoga workout session, yoga.about.com can help you. It provides basic sequences which are suitable for the yoga beginner, for someone who is ready for advanced yoga poses, or for someone who is looking to design a yoga workout for a specific problem.
Yoga.about.com also offers information about different yoga equipment and supplies that can make your yoga and meditation session comfortable. You can find links and reviews of yoga pants, yoga mats, and yoga towels etc. available in different shops and stores. The information and the reviews definitely provide the yoga beginner a chance to browse over the different yoga supplies in an easy way and select the right equipment.
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I teach Iyengar Yoga, and would like to correct the statement that students rest in savasana between postures; Savasana always comes at the end of the practice of Iyengar Yoga
Best wishes
Louise
Louise,
Thank you for correcting that statement.
Namaste,
Gail