But my friend pulled a muscle doing yoga! WTF!?

Did they stretch first?

Har, I joke.

Doing Yoga is just like weight-lifting, mountain climbing, complex medical actions and each distinct obsession in the universe ever, should not be done above your skill level. The difference between yoga and all those other things is that yoga doesn’t LOOK difficult. You KNOW you cannot dead lift 300 lbs without training, but bending?

Come on, 5 year olds do that, what do you have to worry about?

NO. WRONG. Your body has decades of damage and rust that needs to be permanent up before you can move as well as the average 5 year old. You must accept where you are before you can advance. Get through the tutorial and beginner levels before you take on the epic bosses. 

Gyms in Gurgaon

Poses done shallowly but properly are beautiful. Poses forced beyond all recognition are ugly things, and do more bad than good – a pose done badly will never improve, but you’ll expect it to and either get frustrated or push even harder until you wreck something.

You need a lot of backbend skill points before you can even begin to take on King Pigeon Pose, but even the easy-looking poses are more challenging than they appear. If something feels wrong, don’t push it until you learn how to do it properly.

Don’t be dumb.  Yeah, yoga can be dangerous, but only if you’re dumb.