particularly if you're not overly familiar with them. Heating inversions include things like handstand, headstand and forearm balance. If you're not overly comfortable with these types of poses, dolphins and box-poses at the wall will serve to build your toolkit for eventually practicing these poses. Standing poses Standing poses are hugely useful for just about any type of practice. They help to build strength, stamina and opening in a very safe manner. Depending on which class of peak poses you may be working towards, you can pick and choose the postures that will create the best opening. Even if you're not sure what poses open up what, a general practice of standing poses tends to cover a lot of basis. And if you're not sure what each pose is useful for, I highly recommend getting into the poses and trying to feel what muscles are working, which ones are stretching and generally what's going on in your body. As I've said, yoga is about listening. Getting on the mat to listen to what's happening in your body is a great way to learn to sequence like a pro. Twists There are variations of twists from light, gentle ones (good for the beginning and the end of practice) to intense, deep ones within various classes of poses. Twists are a great way to prepare the spine for backbending but the deeper ones could be your peak postures all on their own. Arm balances You may choose this class of poses as