In short, it is often considered to be one of the best forms of yoga for beginners to get into. The slower nature of it and the fact that it uses similar stretching techniques that ballet dancers and gymnasts will be familiar with means that it is quite easy to pick up. However, the extended asana poses that expert practitioners can cope with are usually beyond novices who will only be able to hold them for a minute or two at most. Its slowness also tends to helps people who are new to the meditative aspects of yoga by focussing them on inner silence more effectively.