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    Yoga: Searched for heart openers, wasn’t disappointed

    August 17, 2020

    Yoga: Searched for heart openers, wasn’t disappointed

    Searched for heart openers, wasn’t disappointed

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 12:19 PM PDT

    [comp]Yoga makes me happy. Lol

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 05:50 AM PDT

    [COMP] practicing my king pigeon in this beautiful spot! Tips for improvement are welcome.

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 12:00 PM PDT

    Yoga buddies

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 01:46 PM PDT

    4 weeks in!

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 06:20 PM PDT

    Precursor: on phone. Sorry for grammar

    Hi! I started yoga and meditation 4 weeks ago. I do nightly yoga routines and during the day I do yoga exercises or barre. I didn't ever believe people when they said they felt better with yoga and meditation but after 4 weeks of doing it every day, I can honestly say I feel better. I was in a deep depression before I started. And now I feel a lot better. I suffer from CPTSD so depression has always been a struggle, but yoga has really helped me with it. It also helps with my insomnia! I still struggle with down dog haha. I cant get my heels to touch the floor yet but theyre closer! And my pancake also isn't very good either haha. I don't know the style types or all the lingo but I'm getting there! I got into yoga specifically because of my asthma. For whatever reason I just don't get triggered during yoga or barre like I do with other exercises. Anyway I just wanted to post to let other asthmatic PTSD/depression folks know that this is a great form of exercise.

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    Day 9 30 days of yoga with Adriene

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 01:54 PM PDT

    Completed day 10 of 30 days of Yoga with Adriene. I worked up a sweat but felt more stable when I did the lunges .

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    [COMP] Patanjalis Prayer and Om Tryambakam Yajamahe: Meditation Singing & Breathing

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 02:47 PM PDT

    [COMP] Downward facing Dog. Please guide my form

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 05:18 AM PDT

    Be thankful for the little wins! Yesterday I accomplished the most difficult of poses... Savasana

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 07:15 AM PDT

    I'm not an true beginner (I did classes fairly regularly in high school/college) - but its been years since regular practice for me, and years of rotting away in an office chair.

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    About a 3 weeks ago I started using the down dog app on the absolute beginner mode and I didn't even realize how screwed up my back and shoulders had gotten. I couldn't even lie on the floor in a comfortable Savasana even though other beginner poses were relatively easy. However, during yesterday's cooldown I was in Savasana and realized by lower back wasn't twinging anymore! I could lie on the floor with no ache!

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    I just hope this can be inspo for other beginners that we all have different starting places- It can be intimidating when the "beginner" poses have you shaking and sweating and you check reddit and everyone seems to be flipped upside down and all around.

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    It took me 3 whole weeks to unfuck my back to the point where I could even lie on the floor... but I did it! So don't be upset if you can't hit a pose right away.

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    Yoga + CBD OR edibles or micro dosing.

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 12:47 PM PDT

    Hi all

    Since all this Covid BS started, I've been regularly experimenting with edibles/CBD along with my pretty intense yoga sessions, I have been blown away from my experiences.

    I wanted to shout out and see if there are other people like me who are "experimenting" too?

    PS: I'm really surprised how many people are down voting this thread, seems to be a polarizing topic.

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    Scoliosis & Spinal Fusion

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 05:32 PM PDT

    Hi! I'm 3 and a half years postop from a spinal fusion for my scoliosis. I was 19 when I got the surgery and I used to be very active prior to the surgery. I work a job that requires me to be on my feet, and I just generally want to be healthier/stronger physically and mentally. Does anyone have experience or tips with yoga and with a spinal fusion? I don't know anyone that has experienced what I have and anything is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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    NYC folks - what’s the news?

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 07:47 PM PDT

    Do you think the governor's opening of gyms extends to studios? What studios have even survived the closure? I know Yogaworks, Lighthouse and Bend & Bloom are gone (I'm in BK) and I'm sure they aren't the only ones. Yoga Shanti is still kicking. Modo too I think.

    Anyone else have intel on who seems to be making it through? Anyone gone to class in the park? Dying for an IRL class, even masked up!

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    Fun challenges to try?

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 06:08 PM PDT

    Anyone know of any fun yoga challenges (like 30 days, 10 days, etc) to try?

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    Becoming a better teacher

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 12:07 PM PDT

    Tldr online resources directed towards teaching.

    Hi all, hope everyone is staying safe and keeping up on their practice. Since covid has started I've been teaching on zoom and reading lots of yoga books. Cant get my 500 hours at the moment so I'm looking for ways to improve outside of the classroom. I was wondering if there are any free online resources dedicated to teaching rather than flows and specific poses. Thanks for any recommendations.

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    The mind does not have any intention for you to be aware of the highest consciousness within oneself

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 03:35 AM PDT

    The mind (thoughts, emotions and sensations) does not have any intention for you to be in the place of the highest consciousness within yourself. The mind wants you to believe that it is scary to be a watcher. Realize that this is simply a mechanism of the mind to keep you in thought, you simply drop the belief from the mind, drop the belief that it is scary to be a watcher, because you know, that watcher is ever-present, even if you are "scared to stay as a watcher" that is merely an appearance that is watched by that watcher. The thing that is afraid is merely a thought appearing before the watcher. You are the watcher. Even if you don't want to be, you are already the watcher. Just stop identifying with thoughts, do not believe any thoughts. Do not entertain anything other than the truth, and the truth is that everything is perceived. There is nothing to be afraid for, for it is perceived.

    Life is very simple, very impersonal, just perceived. Every thought, emotion, sensation is perceived. Nothing goes by unperceived by the awareness that is ever-present, even right now, you are reading these words and automatically something is perceiving them, otherwise you couldn't tell me "Yes I am reading right now", something is behind the thought "I am reading" that is observing silently the reading. The same way "Scared to stay as a watcher" is just a thought appearing in the vastness of consciousness, but that thought is perceived by that ever-present awareness that you are. You simply identify as a thought and then lose your power, and then you believe yourself to be afraid. You are not that which is afraid, you are that silent awareness behind the "afraid", that awareness is not afraid, and it is essentially what you are.

    Instead of staying as a watcher of thought, stay as a watcher of the watching itself. Perceive that which is ever-presently perceiving. Nothing can touch you here, it is your true nature, and it is beyond all thought, emotion and sensation. Pure consciousness. Timeless presence. Realizing that you are here before any thought, emotion and sensation, realizing that these are all perceived in the vastness of yourself, realizing that every single thing comes and goes except that which is true, consciousness itself. That consciousness, pure silence, pure emptiness that allows all experience to be perceived, that is what you are, "consciousness" is just a word, it is very subtle to notice it but actually it is the most obvious. That which allows all experience to be perceived, without that consciousness that you are, nothing exists. Yet consciousness exists unbound by any appearance, it is the essence of the universe itself, it is the most fundamental aspect of yourself.

    You are that unbound, infinite, timeless presence which is consciousness. Truly directly experiencing yourself as this consciousness is extremely simple, it is usually believed it is complex but that is false, it can be experienced effortlessly because truly you are that buddha-nature. To be the buddha-nature that is within every single being, is extremely simple, all you must do is to be aware of that which is ever-presently aware. Awareness itself. Rest you attention on the awareness itself, and stay there. There might appear resistance from the mind, trying to pull you into thought, but that is perceived by the awareness, there is no need to hold on to it, or to believe it can do anything at all.

    Once you see that it truly can't touch you, it can't touch that which you truly are, beyond all identity, and once you establish yourself as that pure awareness, you will truly be free. Nothing will slip by you, because you will no longer be identifying as a coming and going thought, but as the pure consciousness that is ever-presently aware of everything, it is unlimited and therefore that infiniteness will literally be radiated out of you, there will be massive forces supporting your flowering into the true nature, and to mature in that true nature. All threat is not out in the world, it is merely within yourself. So do not worry about any external situations happening disturbing that which you are, because it is all handled from the inside. Realize yourself to be that stillness within and stay loyal to it, do not identify with any appearance of the world, very quickly the mind will give up trying to lure you back into unconsciousness, and it will wait for a more opportune moment.

    So as long as you keep perceiving that which is perceiving, there is absolutely nothing that can touch you. Truly every single moment you are perceiving that which is ever-presently perceiving, you are one with the buddha-nature. It will become easier and more natural once all the resistances from the thought-mind are over, and you'll be able to truly live meditation, unattached to life yet extremely present, you will realize yourself to be completely fulfilled, content impersonal love with a natural joy, naturally compassionate and extremely peaceful with a sharp mind, no hesitation, completely present.

    This state does not come and go, it is ever-present, meaning that no matter what the hell is happening, you can simply become aware of being aware and stay in that space. It is your untouchable space, your god-self space. Stabilize and marinate yourself in that, merge with it, become one with it, and very quickly you'll be an infinite blessing to the whole world, just by being aware of what you truly are. Every single being will flourish and feel that energy, even if subconsciously, just by being present you are literally making the whole world sprout into wonderfulness and beauty. Thank you.

    - Sebastian Key

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    Mat to choose

    Posted: 17 Aug 2020 06:31 AM PDT

    Can I do yoga on a pilates mat? It's thicker than a yoga mat.

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    Early early morning practice advice

    Posted: 16 Aug 2020 08:44 PM PDT

    I've recently started waking up before the sun (& my very young children!) to practice again after not having a consistent practice since being pregnant in 2016 then 2018. This is my best window, but boy, am I not bendy at 5am!

    Any other sunrise yogis here? What is your advice for practicing so early? What do you do to warm up and how long does the warming up usually take you?

    I'm hoping to get back to some of the incredibly strong poses I once had!

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    Can I hang my upper body from my bed if I cannot do shirshasana?

    Posted: 16 Aug 2020 10:30 PM PDT

    New lurker here. I cannot do a handstand for more than 5 seconds. I really want to try shirshasana or headstands but I am slightly overweight at the moment.

    Does this type of inversion work the same way as shirshasana? I wanted to ask an expert because I dont want to hurt any of my joints or upper body by doing this ? Also if you can link a simpler way for a slightly fat person to tilt themselves safely for 5 minutes daily that would be great. :)

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