Alabama may lift a decades-old ban on yoga in public schools, but the greeting "namaste" would remain on the forbidden list. Under a bill in the state House local school systems could teach yoga, but moves and exercises would have to have English names. https://t.co/sttgfCylZv— The Associated Press (@AP) March 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
do they allow French in ballet classes?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
Funnily enough I tried this power yoga class run by an Indian teacher yesterday.
Looked him up and he has a decolonising yoga project and he seems really left-wing (judging by his twitter). He is very much into demystifying yoga for complete beginners.
I'll go now and then as we don't often get to practice arm balances in Iyengar yoga.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 March 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
Anyone got recommendations for YouTube yogis? I can’t see myself going back to class for a while
― badg, Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
A couple of teachers I know are doing zoom classes. Not ideal but this is all that is available to me.
I have used this time to actually practice using the sequences at the back of Light on Yoga. First time I have really engaged with it, the photographs of Iyengar doing advanced postures always put me off.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
I started doing yoga for the first time ever to counteract the effects of working from a kitchen chair all day, just using that Down Dog channel. It's ok, I like it fine, nothing overly challenging and it's easy to follow. I have nothing to compare it to though.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
― badg, Thursday, 2 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink
A lot of studios are doing online classes. Do you mean specific YouTube only ppl?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
I believe the place I had been going to, Black Swan Yoga, has a daily livestream on YouTube. Can't vouch for their quality. They also have an app you can subscribe to that has a bunch of content.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
"Black Swan Yoga" is a bit on the nose, no?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
I like EkhartYoga and Fightmaster Yoga on YouTube. I avoid classes with music (just no) and instructors I find irritating (obv).
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
There's a lot that's unfortunate about their branding, tbh. I'm hesitant to fully endorse them because their vibe is a little offputting in general, but I at least get solid workouts from their routines.
xp
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
I avoid classes with music (just no) and instructors I find irritating (obv).
yeah i'm permanently scarred from having a beck song come up on some instructor's playlist.
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
The studio where my wife teaches is streaming live throughout the day On IG and archiving on FB. I highly recommend a Bikram class with Gary or Power with Claudia.
https://m.facebook.com/ashrambellevue/
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
I use this for Ashtanga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJzfZ6w0s4g
Though there's also this class from K Pattabhi Jois too, which I haven't checked out.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
I like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Krp4W0TlAU
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
yeah i'm permanently scarred from having a beck song come up on some instructor's playlist.Lol! This happened to me too w Beck but it was a free class my coworker was giving and I let it slide, she’s nice and I like her. The only music-containing yoga class I’ve enjoyed that wasn’t self-directed within the last 15 years was a metal yoga class. I love the immersive loudness and now I just do metal yoga at home.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
Strongly recommend the track “Catharsis” by YOB bc it’s 23 min long (perfect for warmup) and has a spectacular ending.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
Most of the non Ashtanga classes I've attended have had some kind of music, ranging from unobtrusive to painfully cringe inducing. The best ones lean heavily towards balearic bliss. I will credit one teacher, who mostly had terrible taste, for once having a playlist that featured "Tears in the Typing Pool" into "Parallelograms".
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 3 April 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
I sort of expect & enjoy fairly cheesy songs at class but an instructor played Bill Callahan once which was a pleasant surprise.Thanks for the recommendations they were exactly what I was looking for.
― badg, Friday, 3 April 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
We just tried a Yoga app that used Nick Cave’s soundtrack from The Road, which was a little on the nose.
I like Yoga with Adrienne. She can be cloying but I like the pacing and she’s good (speaking as an amateur) at explaining the moves. And she has a cute dog.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink
It's a notorious demonstration in that community but it isn't for beginners.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:15 (four years ago) link
Adrienne uses the word “yummy” too much for me bit otherwise I think she is a good teacher.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 3 April 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
I've been using Yogiapproved.com for classes since before this started.
no annoying music so far, but they have a 30 day free trial and a lot of classes so its fairly mindless to open up the app and decide on something.
I mainly use the same 3/4 classes. but I have no issues with the range.
they also do something called 'outlaw yoga' which I have a strange fascination with, it seems to be yoga for aging bikers, but with a dude playing guitar in the background to take the edge off...
I've watched the trailer loads in weird fascination but can't bring myself to actually open one of the courses.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 3 April 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
DisgustingNo one should be describing anything as juicy or yummy during a YOGA class? No.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 4 April 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
Juicy gets used a lot, it's a problem
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
you mean like "a deep juicy stretch"? yuck.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
Ms. T. and I used to go to a studio that catered to "angry screenwriters and suspicious IT workers" years back and ran across the Yoga With Adriene videos at the beginning of the pandemic. Her teaching style works well with us, especially since it's just the two of us at home watching a YouTube video, and I'm somewhere between ambivalent and not-giving-a-shit about her adjective choices.
I knew my posture was bad, but I didn't know just how bad it was. Twenty months of daily practice (yes, daily) later, I'm totally shocked to discover that I gained almost a centimeter of height back.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 23:42 (two years ago) link
Amen to Yoga With Adriene, I'd let my regular yoga lapse since my old Y membership expired but a friend recommended her videos last year and I'm back to at least several times a week. I really like her range of classes, that you can pick one for just neck and shoulders if those are sore or whatever. And her patter's generally pretty likable. Anyway, yes to regular yoga!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
Just thought I'd draw your attention to the journal of yoga studies. All open access.
There has been plenty of scholarship on the roots of modern yoga but this is something else. Papers on yoga and its relationship to dance, Indian martial arts. Yoga in China and Tibet. I am making my way through it so will read some articles and say anything as and when.
https://journalofyogastudies.org/index.php/JoYS/issue/view/2023.V4
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link
Sickening.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/india-modi-yoga-whitewash-crimes-use-how
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 22 June 2023 20:45 (ten months ago) link