7. Practice yoga on an empty stomach:

Practising yoga on an empty stomach will ensure that you can perform the asanas easily. Besides when you do yoga at home on an empty stomach, the body is guided to efficiently harness the energy from the reserves stored in the form of body fat and muscles, and thereby you burn those extra calories more efficiently.

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8. Begin with basics:

Start with an easy routine and let your body get used to the stretching and exercises. Then gradually increase the grade of your routine. Introduce more difficult asanas and practice for long hours. While this may sound impossible now, once you get hooked to yoga, you will find yourself wanting to lengthen the hours of your practice!

9. Never forget doing warm-up:

Here are the first steps to do yoga at home. If you are following a routine from a yoga teaching video or CD, you need not do anything additional. If however, you have formed your own routine, you might want to start with a little meditation or breathing exercises. Always start with the stretching or warming up. This will prepare your body and prevent any possible injury such as muscle pull. Do not jump into the really tough asanas at once!

10. Always end with a cool-down exercise:

This step is as important as beginning with warm-up exercises. The basic purpose of performing cool-down exercise is to reduce the heart rate, cool down your body temperature, and return the muscles to its optimal length. Besides, it also prevents the venous pooling of blood in the lower extremities, thereby nullifying the chances of dizziness and fainting.

11. Try getting lessons from the experts:

If you are an experienced yoga teacher, you might not need outside help. However, if you are a complete novice, you might want to buy yoga CDs or use online yoga classes, to guide you. While some yoga exercises are fairly simple and aimed at soothing your mind, others are designed to stretch your muscles and burn calories and these online classes and CDs are an easy way of mastering your exercises and also helping you decide which one suits you the best keeping your goal in mind thereby helping you select the right exercises.