Yoga is a great way to improve your flexibility. Practicing it regularly will help you become more flexible over time. There are many different types of yoga, but I like vinyasa yoga. Vinyasa is a style of yoga characterized by stringing postures together so that you move from one to another, seamlessly, using breath. Commonly referred to as flow yoga, it is sometimes confused with Ashtanga yoga, which is also based on the principle of linking breath and movement. In practice, however, these two styles are quite different.
Vinyasa classes offer a variety of postures and no two classes are ever alike. It is an unpredictable style of yoga with an element of surprise. You never know what the teacher has in store for you. One day you might focus on standing poses; the next day you may be upside down in an inversion or twisting yourself into a pretzel while doing seated forward bends!
Vinyasa teachers often include music and chanting as well as hands-on adjustments to help deepen students’ experience of the practice. Vinyasa yoga classes can vary widely from the gentler forms taught for beginners to the more dynamic and physically demanding types practiced by experienced students.
When I started practicing yoga, I did it because I thought it would help me become more flexible.
If you had asked me to describe myself back then, words like “flexible” and “open-minded” would never have come up. I was opinionated and closed off to other people’s opinions. Yoga changed that for me.