Yoga - CD/SD

hehe

yoga is classic but there is a lot of super dud yoga out there that i wldn't even call yoga

it puzzles me when people are like, "i want to try yoga but i don't want to do funny breathing or chanting, or do any meditation. " in that case, you probably just want a sculpt & tone class.

otm omg

Meditation is a tool of Satan, BEWARE, BEWARE!!

is BEWARE BEWARE your mantra?

Just kidding. But I remember some lovely alarmist rabidly Christian fiction series that posited that Satan and his minions would try to get meditation and "spirit guide" programs into schools as a front for possessing our children if we didn't surround them with the protection of Jesus' blood.

Which is just to say that there's a lot of misconception and um...probably unnecessary concerns about some elements of yoga.

i want to take ballet

do they have beginning ballet classes for adults??

I'm sure someone does.

i thought if i entered a question in this box, the internet would tell me

We are all the internet.

I don't know the answer to the thread's question, but let me say that I love that Namaste Yoga they show over-and-over on the Fit TV channel. It's like the old 20-Minute Workout on HBO in cable's early days. Hott.

Satan and his minions would try to get meditation and "spirit guide" programs into schools as a front for possessing our children if we didn't surround them with the protection of Jesus' blood.

This is actually true.

My girlfriend is doing some yoga right now to an instructional tape, and she doesn't think any of my jokes are funny, especially the ones about "The circle of life" and how good it is, and the fart noises.

Yoginis are notoriously humor-imparied. Yogis, however...

http://www.johnrozum.com/images/yogibear.jpg

i want to take ballet

do they have beginning ballet classes for adults??

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i was wondering the same thing actually!

touch my forehead to my shin, you've got to be kidding me.

i have never even been able to touch my toes!

my back just doesn't do forward bends. or maybe it is my hamstrings. it makes me feel like a goon.

years of yoga and I still could not touch my toes.

yoga is shite.

ppl can't touch their toes?

*pbl can't touch their toes

(*pobbles)

yeah i can't touch my toes. i have never been able to. i have long legs, maybe that is why.

I started doing yoga a couple months ago. Very relaxing.

yeah, i think it might have more to do w/ legs vs. torso+arms than flexibility

They played LCD Soundsystem and MGMT in my yoga class the other day. Surprisingly ok.

Felicity where do you go?

This is to be my Big Summer Of Yoga

Crunch LA.

i am going to be doing 1hr in mornings 3 consecutive times a week throughout all of june!

bell_labs you will be able to touch your toes soon enough, i'm sure of it. even if you've got back pain. it does take time though - you kind of have to have patience with yoga. or it teaches you patience with self. i don't know, i do the kind of yoga that doesn't feed my competitive drive, and therefore lets me chill out - b/c i mean, there are plenty of other arenas in life where that drive is engaged. anyway, i have pretty tight hamstrings etc and at first found it super painful to try to touch my toes, but after about two years of regular practice i can put both hands flat on the ground w/o pain, once warmed up.

i feel like finding a good teacher and a good set of people in the class is kind of the first challenge! but i am v picky that way

yeah i'm not taking a class, just doing dvds. at least for now! maybe once i get a little more flexible i will be less intimidated by classes.

i started doing 10-15 mins of yoga before i run or play basketball last fall - at first id have to get warm to barely touch my toes now i can put my palm flat to the floor!

doing this workout 2x week, makes me rly tired afterward, following day i feel 5 years younger. other days i stretch, cardio/circuit, drink beer. in that order.

jesus 90 minutes?

that's how long my class was.

I sleep a lot better on days I do yoga. 90 minutes seems like a long time.

My clases are 60 or 90 minutes.

90 minutes is great in the evenings ending with a long Shivasina under a blanket or towel. Ahhh.

lauren, are you doing yoga anywhere I know? ;)

i'm bad about trying new classes, f. i'm SO self-conscious. so for classes, i've stuck to my old standby (kusala).

and yes, long class followed by a rest under the blanket is awesome.

haha btwn this and the talk on beauty/etc thread abt being wrapped up in blankets at a spa, i've realized how much i hate being wrapped up in blankets or being under a blanket in a public(ish) space! so not relaxing to me. weird realizations file.

(roughly) 45 minutes of moving asanas followed by 20 minutes of balance poses, 20 minutes of yoga for your abs, then 10 or so minutes of chillaxin in child's pose variants.

the length was intimidating but the 1st half is definitely the most challenging part for me. once that parts over i really enjoy the focus on breath control and slowly increasing my range of movement.

now i just gotta do this twice a week until i'm 80. easy part.

Yeah, it makes me feel like I'm stuck in an envelope! Always hated kindergarten enforced naptime.

xp

where can you buy the video for that?

felicity, you should try Brock's class at Yogaworks in westwood. It's full of flyers, which can be, um, a challenge to yr ego if yr not one, but also the best vinyasa class east of Venice (where Vinnie Marino still reigns supreme). Towel or mysore rug required.

....flyers?

i don't want to think about what a yoga class in westwood is like. the scene at my bf's nephew's kiddie karate class was scarring enough.

i'm finding rmexico's post completely o_O/LA

i also don't know what a flyer is!

Anywhere further east of Venice?

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.

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.

Though there's also this class from K Pattabhi Jois too, which I haven't checked out.

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It's a notorious demonstration in that community but it isn't for beginners.

Adrienne uses the word “yummy” too much for me bit otherwise I think she is a good teacher.

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.

Adrienne uses the word “yummy” too much for me bit otherwise I think she is a good teacher.

Disgusting
No one should be describing anything as juicy or yummy during a YOGA class? No.

Juicy gets used a lot, it's a problem

you mean like "a deep juicy stretch"? yuck.

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.

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!

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

Sickening.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/india-modi-yoga-whitewash-crimes-use-how