I'm not that good at it tbh! I'm a weekend yogi at best, I have to cheat if I want to get into bakasana, my shoulders are too stiff for a forearm stand, my balance is terrible, etc., etc.
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
And my Ashtanga experience has been almost exclusively with an intro-level class, so who knows!
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 00:11 (nine years ago) link
full primary is the bomb but def takes time and consistency
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Did my first bakasana into chataranga today! Most challenging thing though was staying in crow because I kept slipping off my arms because of the sweat.
― :wq (Leee), Monday, 12 October 2015 00:27 (nine years ago) link
congrats!
I still haven't mastered the slippy arms problem. theoretically real ultimate core strength will overcome that but i am not there yet. more lolasana for me.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 12 October 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/23/yoga-classes-cultural-appropriation
As someone who has practised yoga for a good couple of years I am looking at this story of the cancelled yoga class and the link above from a slightly different angle. Have black or fat women been stopped from going to yoga classes, or are they strongly made to feel unwelcome?
Who is it that builds this perception that yoga is for fit blonde women? Obviosuly the way its reported by the media and sold has its problems - but from what I've heard of the class at that uni its open for everyone and free so that isn't part of the problem and not where I would go to use words like 'decolinised'. The Guardian is also part of it and people who have a couple of brain cells should try and separate it from the way its reported to the way it is - classes are made up of older people and many who have some form of disability. Anecdotal evidence of overheard conversation at a fkn festival and having a quick scan around the room isn't journalism.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 10:10 (eight years ago) link
Doing Iyengar still but taken up a yoga where we do Ujjayi breaths. its very relaxed, the teacher isn't that bothered about straightening legs all the time (she tells me to 'unlock' them). Still learning but its interesting.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 February 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
thinking of trying a few classes
is there such a thing anymore as normcore yoga? like i dont want a hot room or rope or any high energy nonsense, just quiet calm etc
i'm not sure what to look for, there's so many types!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 February 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
nb am not super flexible/athletic
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 February 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
Veg, Hatha's quietude sounds like it'd be your thing. Mostly holding relaxed poses for 1+ minutes.
And you don't have to be flexible when you start yoga! You develop your flexibility THROUGH yoga.
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 8 February 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
thanks! looks like there's a studio not far from my house that offers asha :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 February 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Second hatha yoga -- that's how I started
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Monday, 8 February 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
Ropes etc can help get you into poses although there can be too much faffing around if the Iyengar class isn't well directed.
My current teacher doesn't use as many.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 February 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
excited to start trying this imo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 February 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
isn't hatha yoga just, like, physical yoga eg any type of yoga in which you practice asanas?
eg iyengar, ashtanga, bikram, vinyasan flow whatever all these popular schools/systems/types of yoga are just various interpretations/instances of hatha yoga? idk i could be way off
ime iyengar is the most accessible to beginners and is the most "no frills" type - no music, no hot rooms, no new agey western yoga mysticism. there are definitely ropes, blocks, straps etc but those are all just tools to make the poses more accessible to practitioners
― marcos, Monday, 8 February 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Maybe I'm conflating Hatha with Yin/restorative yoga; I sort of associate Iyengar with holding Warrior for minutes, whereas what I'm calling Hatha is like holding a forward bend for minutes.
Veg, by asha do you mean ashtanga (which is a more vigorous style with arm/head balances and fancy jumping).
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 8 February 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
Hatha is general yoga. The two main styles that grew off Hatha are Iyengar and Ashtanga - and both of those were taught by Krishnamacharya: http://www.asia.si.edu/explore/yoga/youtube.asp?id=krishnamacharya
Svastha is another style but way less known.
Bikram is quite limiting - you are meant to do it in a hot room and its the same sequence of asanas over and over which doesn't sound v appealing. From doing a couple of styles I'd say they all do similar things - its the emphasis on various aspects that's different. Then again different teachers in one style will teach an asana in a slightly different way as well.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 February 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
well this place offers hatha among other things & it sounds exactly as chill & normcore as I'm looking for
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 February 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Hope you enjoy it! Stretching and getting stronger are top notch physical sensations imo. I've been working on my headstand for like a year and I can finally do it without wall support. Nothing helps me shift perspective like a solid headstand!
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Monday, 8 February 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
I see what you did there, Lech!
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 8 February 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
Hathayoga as a general term describes any physically-oriented form of yoga (as opposed to e.g. seated meditation). That said, in the US a class described as "Hatha Yoga" would typically be expected to be less physically vigorous than e.g. Vinyasa or Power yoga and require less experience linking breath and movement. Good place to start imo :)
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 8 February 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
thx rog!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link
I was pondering on the drive home how successful yoga practices would be if there wasn't a semi-bastardized conceptual framework overlaid
"Hey, want to go to a meet-up in the park and do some stretching and strength exercises?"
yoga is good though, imo
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:33 (eight years ago) link
i have all kinds of digestive weirdness and weird aches & i thought some stretching might help over time
plus i really need the breathing/meditation for relaxation
i'm a mess rn lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:56 (eight years ago) link
i don't have a regular practice right now because my life is crazy but i did have one for a number of years, basically on/off since 2001, yoga is amazing. even now when i do like 20 minutes at the end of the day, i'm astonished by how much physical/mental/emotional tension is released after just a few asanas
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
Some poetry from Patanjali: http://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/patanjali-vibhuti-pada-the-chapter-of-dubious-glories/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
^^^ v yogic
― davey, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
TS: Kino MacGregor vs. Briohny Smyth
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
short answer: your mom
― map, Monday, 21 March 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
i just finished my 3 week intro to yoga workshop with a hatha instructor & i loooooved it. me & four other ppl, mainly seniors. super chill & GREAT
instructor is nice & normcore and not scary like the last instructor i tried. she has a deep well of yoga knowledge, v friendly & funny
doing thurs night classes starting this week, space is a buddhist temple (!) - v excited
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 March 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
beforei found the workshop i tried a hatha class & the instructor was like an snl parody, weirdly passive agressive & would stare into your eyes & say I LOVE WHAT I DO in a way that seemed like she did not at all
the class was cool but she just made me feel v stressed, glad that i went back to the drawing board & found someone more my speed
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 March 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
yr situation sounds v rad. especially temple access. i am trying to do a lil youtube yoga at home, i got derailed when it turned into Xtreme Cardio Crunch Workout. i was really looking to roll around more instead of do slo-mo cross-fit
― bloat laureate (schlump), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
i learned ujaiyi breath :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
Yes that's what I'm doing in Svastha yoga, which I try to use in my Iyengar class sometimes. Just that deeper engagement with breath and movement earlier on - in Iyengar the breath usually comes later.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link
Real question is how do you do with mula bandha?
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
i had to google it - they havent covered that
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
basically a kegel. at which I rule.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link
Tighten the muscle you'd tighten to stop peeing mid-stream. At least that's what I found when I googled it after my female yoga teacher was unable to give me a good answer.
(uh, i realize now that this is a super-late answer, but I'll leave it in case anyone else wonders. Or if someone knows this my answer to be wrong and can correct me)
― gradually louden lots (Øystein), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
I started up yoga again a few months ago after a 10+ year break. I had been getting pretty badly out of shape, plus suffering from neck/shoulder pain from compressed discs. My main weekly class is called Fundamentals of Ashtanga, which goes through the primary sequence of Ashtanga, but is a bit more lenient in terms of variations. I really like my teacher, she is the right mix of nice and supportive, but also serious about what she does. The class itself is very grueling, just about at the max physical limit for what I can endure, and that's even with all the things that I either can't do, do easier variations on, or just plain skip. Still I manage to keep up and am growing a bit more limber.
Outside of this class, I do whatever fits my schedule, usually somewhat less impactful classes. I don't love the whole heated room thing. It's been especially bad the last few weeks because the AC unit at the yoga studio has been busted, which isn't a good thing in Texas during the summer. Everyone else seems ok with it, so I'm just rolling with it.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
what are my options for keeping my hair out of my face that isn't a man bun?
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle
― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
buzz it! It's liberating
― Evan R, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
bbut i love my hair!
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
It grows back. And people who have hair to care about look the best when they buzz it. Plus summer is the optimum time to buzz it.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
depends how long yer hair is but i use this headband
http://www.kooshoo.com/collections/aurea-headbands-mensonly
you have to wrap it around twice
my only complaint is it sometimes gives me bad bedhair when the back of my head is on the floor and the band moves
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
I used to see longhair guys with ponytails in my yoga class pretty frequently. I shave my head, though.
― Nicholas Nickelback (Leee), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
I'm trying to work my way up to the full shave. Not sure I'm ready yet.
Buzzing is a weird thrill everybody should try at least once. You'll absolutely hate that you did it the first day, start to warm to it by day two or three, and then a few weeks later you'll start to get bummed that it's growing back
― Evan R, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
also the feeling of stepping out of the shower and having a dry head within seconds is ++++++++++++
― Evan R, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
u can have short hair without buzzing it, wtf guys
― mh, Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
go entirely bald shave your entire body this is the only way
― qualx, Thursday, 14 July 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link