To help you do the same, I asked Heather Peterson, certified yoga instructor and chief yoga officer at CorePower Yoga, to share what she thinks are some of the best yoga poses for beginners to learn. Yoga is now a very welcome part of my fitness routine, so I'm glad that I powered through the discomfort in the beginning. If you're new to yoga and have had a similar experience-or are still too hesitant to walk into a studio and roll out your mat-learning a handful of the poses that will pop up throughout class is a great way to feel more confident to give it a shot. Taking some cues from the more advanced yogis around me helped, but I do wish that I had familiarized myself a bit with some yoga poses for beginners before I took my first class. I wasn't familiar with either the English or Sanskrit names for the poses, and to be quite honest, even when I did know what I was supposed to do, I couldn't tell if I was doing it right.
I wasn't trying to compare myself to them-I was just trying to understand what the heck was going on.
During the first probably four or five yoga classes I ever took, I spent the majority of the time frantically looking around at everyone else.
