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How to Use Body Mind Yoga Cards 
in Your Home Practice

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Benefits of Home Practice

Practicing at home is one of the keys to fully experiencing the benefits of yoga. 70% of our students report that using our cards is the best way to begin a home practice. They experience:

  • Improved proficiency through repetition
  • Improved health
  • Improved response to stress.

…for the body

The Body Mind Yoga Cards will help you realize the full benefits of yoga because they are:

  • Safe ¾ designed for use by the average yoga student. They show how to preserve the correct alignment of the neck and spine and protect sensitive joints.
  • Balanced ¾ containing asanas for developing strength, flexibility, and balance. A small number of flows (vinyasas) are included to increase the heart rate. Other postures reverse the effects of gravity. And there is a focus on breathing throughout.
  • Adaptable ¾ capable of combining into many combinations, depending on your energy level for the day. Working with a teacher, you can create a home practice that focuses on your special physical needs.

…for the mind

You can use the Body Mind Yoga Cards to exercise the left-hand side of your brain where intellectual activity takes place, by:

  • learning the names of the poses in Sanskrit as well as English. This knowledge will help you because the Sanskrit names for the poses never change from one yoga studio to another, whereas the English translations often do change.
  • discover the original meanings of the poses taken from the ancient Sanskrit.

You can also exercise the right-hand side of your brain where creativity and intuitive activity takes place, by:

  • visualizing the poses (or asanas) from graphic illustrations instead of from textual. descriptions
  • deriving inspiration from the passages on the front of each card.
  • using the color images to focus your meditations.

How to Structure Your Home Practice 
Using Yoga Cards

You can use the yoga cards to construct a home practice in a number of ways, including:

  • Performing the asanas (poses) in sequence. The cards are numbered from 1 to 25 in the order of a balanced yoga practice. If you want a shorter session, you may omit some of the asanas. However, always begin with a warm up, choosing from cards 1 to 6, and end with a relaxation from cards 24 or 25.
  • Hanging the cards you have chosen for the day on suction hooks, to display and remind you of the flows while you perform the asanas.
  • Picking a card intuitively or at random for inspiration throughout the day.
  • Working with your teacher to develop a customized home practice especially for you.
  • Learn the names of the poses in Sanskrit and English by using the cards as flash cards.


What Students are Saying 
about the Cards

Yoga students at the Body Mind Awareness Yoga Center 
have told us:

  • "They reinforce the classes." Nancy
  • "I liked taping them up on the wall." Melanie
  • "I liked not having to read too much. There was an ease of practice through simple visualization." Rose
  • "The pictures are great - so inspiring with the nature scenes." Tracy
  • "I love the Sanskrit. It was helpful for me to learn it." Tracy
  • "It helps to see the pose as a flow with all its stages." Inga

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