At this point it should be clear that a good yoga practice is not haphazard but instead follows certain principles. The principles that give our practice an intelligent structure are: begin where you are warm up and loosen the whole body at the start of a session before you perform an āsana, make sure you know and can perform an appropriate counterpose practice an āsana dynamically before holding it practice the counterpose immediately following the main āsana make sure the counterpose is simpler than the main āsana
