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Yoga Flexibility for Beginners Flexibility exercises are a key partof maintaining your health and avoiding injury, especially as youage. The stretching you do in yoga is a great way to improve yourflexibility. It's a commonly held misconception that you have toalready be flexible to do yoga. In fact, the opposite is true:doing yoga regularly is a sure way to become more flexible. Ifthat's your goal, here are some poses that target major musclesgroups that tend to get tight from sitting for long periods or evenfrom other types of exercise, like running. Staying in the posesfor several minutes is the way to get a good stretch. Don't expectovernight changes, however. This beginner level yoga forflexibility is designed to stretch a little bit of everything withbasic poses. For best results, do these stretches daily. Thefollowing poses are intended to give you some options to fit yourcurrent level of flexibility.