Doing yoga correctly should not make you sore. You should not push yourself doing any pose (asana), but do it as much as your flexibility allows. Doing the same pose regularly will increase your flexibility and you will be able to do the asana better. But the point is that most folks when the start are not able to do the asanas as it looks in the picture (ideal), but over time folks get there. If you push yourself to look like the ideal, then you might get sore.
If you have not been exercising regularly or if you have done exercises that tighten your muscles, and then you begin to do some yoga stretches and hold these positions for awhile, you will probably feel a lot of pain in your muscles - for awhile. Just like any other exercise, yoga is an exercise. Moving your body in unfamiliar ways, especially if you have been holding tension in different places (e.g., your neck, your shoulders, your lower back), doing yoga stretches may help to loosen the tight fascia and connective tissues, but there may be some resistance in your body and in your mind, to change. Body posturing evolves over the years in response to all sorts of emotional reactions to people and events in your life. When you begin to move these postural tensions, the emotional memories stored in your brain and your body cells can be unleashed. You may feel physical pain and soreness as well as emotional pain and soreness that you did not expect.
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