1 hatha yoga
Hatha yoga is the foundation of all yoga schools and the only way for every beginner to enter the yoga industry. Ha is the sun, the moon, representing positive and negative, yin and yang. The main thing is to practice how to control your body and breath, so as to calm your mind.
Features: the practice process is slow, gentle and peaceful, emphasizing the experience of each posture rather than the perfection of the posture.
Suitable for beginners, because the physical requirements are relatively low, but it can lay a solid foundation for you to try other genres in the future.
2 Liu Yoga
Because it is smoother than other yoga moves, it is named flowing yoga.
Features: The arrangement of asana is smooth, interesting and lively, and the course has more variability, which can give practitioners more room to play.
Suitable for people who have a certain yoga foundation, like to try new things and like sports. Compared with the slow-paced yoga form, it can make you feel more excited.
3 Yin Yoga
Yin yoga combines the characteristics of "asana+breathing+meditation". Its practice is internal and external balance, yin and yang harmony, and it absorbs the essence of meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine, healing meditation and Taoist health preservation.
Features: Yin yoga emphasizes the relaxation of the whole body, eliminates all distractions and combines with slow and natural breathing, maintains long-term movements, exercises bones and their connecting tissues, regulates the nervous system and enhances endurance when muscles are completely relaxed, thus achieving a state of unity of body and mind, which has a very good conditioning and maintenance effect on women.
Suitable for people with poor health and high pressure in life to relax and relieve stress. Suitable for running, skipping and fitness enthusiasts, relieving joint pressure and repairing muscle strain.
4 high temperature yoga
High temperature yoga is also called Bikram yoga and thermal yoga. High temperature environment replaces a lot of hard exercise. After ordinary people go in, they will sweat even if they don't exercise a lot.
Features: High temperature yoga has strict requirements on venue and temperature. It needs to practice 26 fixed postures at 36~42℃. The high temperature environment contributes to the deep stretching of the body, improves the flexibility of the spine, and directly stimulates the nervous and muscular systems.
If you like the feeling of sweating, or want to reduce remodeling and detoxification, high-temperature yoga is a good choice. People with heart disease, hypertension, serious eye and ear diseases, diabetes, recovery from serious illness, lying-in women and sub-health are not suitable for practice.
5 air yoga
Aerial yoga, also known as anti-gravity yoga, is a new yoga method that combines the three principles of gravity, centripetal force and anti-gravity. The principle of strength comes from physical kinematics.
Features: aerial yoga allows practitioners to complete all movements with the help of silk hammocks hanging on the roof; Using the principle of suspension, hammock can be used as a support for pigeon posture or dog posture, which can help practitioners to perform handstand posture beyond their own ability more easily.
Suitable for people who have a certain yoga foundation, like taking beautiful photos, want non-traditional yoga experience and want to challenge difficult movements.
6 rhythmic yoga
On the basis of yoga, it combines dance elements, music therapy, functions and skills.
Features: There are both elegant dance and restrained yoga, which is more aesthetic and interesting than traditional yoga courses.
Suitable for people who like beautiful rhythm.
7 physical therapy yoga
Features: Combining the principles of anatomy and kinematics, improve and adjust the sub-health and unhealthy posture of the body.
Who is suitable for practice? People who want to improve shoulder, neck, waist and back discomfort, correct X-O-shaped legs, pelvic tilt back and forth, rich bags, round shoulders and hunchbacks.
8 Yunchan Yoga
Features: Yoga during pregnancy focuses on relieving pregnancy-related pain and psychological stress, providing decompression, exercise and self-care, and breathing exercises can also come in handy during childbirth. Who is suitable for practice? Expectant mothers and mothers who want to rebuild their bodies after childbirth.
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It is suggested that beginners choose hatha yoga when they are just getting started, which is very friendly to people with zero foundation. If you like quiet health, you can choose Yin Yoga, Dynamic Yoga, Air Yoga, High Temperature Yoga and Rhythmic Yoga.
The yoga schools mentioned above all have corresponding courses in China Yoga Alliance Shanghai Hongqiao General Campus ~ You can learn without foundation ~