Yoga: I found this today. Felt like this was the perfect place to share. We all need some healing

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• I found this today. Felt like this was the perfect place to share. We all need some healing
• [COMP] i finally nailed the transition out of modified one legged crow!! :)
• [COMP] - Starting YTT soon and now wondering if bad habits set in as a student that were never corrected. Hard to find images of yogis with similar body to mine to see if this is the best expression of the asana for me. Constructive criticism welcomed!
• [COMP] Inspired by a fellow crow post, big accomplishment for me!
• [COMP] Started doing yoga with the Down Dog app and wanted to check if i’m doing the downward dog pose correctly, please help!
• What is this ball called? I need to try one
• Do you like to use singing bowls in your practice?
• Trying to find resources and getting overwhelmed.
• Yoga instructors, what watch do you wear and why?
• Any tips for maintaining neutral pelvis while seated?
• Fast or Slow Pace-Sun Salutation
• Books/info on tantric hatha yoga?
• Upper back will not lay flat?
• Chakras - Figurative or Literal?
• An article on cultural appropriation of yoga that I found interesting. I'm mixed Indian/white so my relationship to yoga and half of my culture has been... an interesting one to say the least... hope this explains to y'all why this is a conversation the community NEEDS to have
• Toxic instructors
• Men and yoga

I found this today. Felt like this was the perfect place to share. We all need some healing Posted: 09 Sep 2020 11:53 AM PDT submitted by /u/brokenB42morrow [link] [comments]

[COMP] i finally nailed the transition out of modified one legged crow!! :) Posted: 09 Sep 2020 04:32 PM PDT submitted by /u/chillychickens [link] [comments]

[COMP] - Starting YTT soon and now wondering if bad habits set in as a student that were never corrected. Hard to find images of yogis with similar body to mine to see if this is the best expression of the asana for me. Constructive criticism welcomed! Posted: 09 Sep 2020 10:09 AM PDT submitted by /u/MotherOfNewfies [link] [comments]

[COMP] Inspired by a fellow crow post, big accomplishment for me! Posted: 08 Sep 2020 09:03 PM PDT submitted by /u/perstephanietherat [link] [comments]

[COMP] Started doing yoga with the Down Dog app and wanted to check if i’m doing the downward dog pose correctly, please help! Posted: 09 Sep 2020 02:13 PM PDT submitted by /u/trinityef [link] [comments]

What is this ball called? I need to try one Posted: 09 Sep 2020 08:34 PM PDT submitted by /u/BParamedic [link] [comments]

Do you like to use singing bowls in your practice? Posted: 09 Sep 2020 05:32 PM PDT Why or why not? submitted by /u/AerialWanderer [link] [comments]

Trying to find resources and getting overwhelmed. Posted: 09 Sep 2020 12:26 PM PDT Hello amazing people! I am really new to Yoga, I would eventually love to get to where I see all of you, but I know I have areas I need to work on first. My shoulders. They hold all my stress to the point where I can't move my arms behind my back at all. I started looking up poses that would help with that but all I find is really advance stuff. The dragon fly was mentioned in one and... yeah... I am not there. Could anyone recommend some resources/poses to help with my shoulders? Please and thank you, Best wishes submitted by /u/imageofloki [link] [comments]

Yoga instructors, what watch do you wear and why? Posted: 09 Sep 2020 03:27 PM PDT I'm about to undertake a teacher training course and is already fantasizing about teaching, and so is looking to get a watch that would be helpful in classes! What would you recommend? submitted by /u/babiepilgrim [link] [comments]

Any tips for maintaining neutral pelvis while seated? Posted: 09 Sep 2020 12:47 PM PDT Whenever I'm sitting criss crossed or even with legs extended in front me, my pelvis is posteriorly titled and my lumbar spine is more rounded than straight. Could this signify tightness in certain areas I need to loosen up more? I would like to do more seated poses but they just aren't accessible at this point. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/GoodieTwoShoez [link] [comments]

Fast or Slow Pace-Sun Salutation Posted: 09 Sep 2020 11:37 AM PDT Hi Folks I'm earliesh 50s. And since I was about 30 years I have always (well nearly) had a submitted by /u/DontDoNicknames [link] [comments]

Books/info on tantric hatha yoga? Posted: 09 Sep 2020 10:38 AM PDT Hi, I'm interested in learning more about hatha yoga, specifically tantric hatha. Any suggestions for books or resources? I have many years of experience doing vinyasa but am interested in incorporating a more slow/sensual(? lol) element to my practice. Thank you! submitted by /u/sandwichgrandma [link] [comments]

Upper back will not lay flat? Posted: 08 Sep 2020 08:55 PM PDT I'm relatively new to yoga and have started doing it daily. I've noticed that when I try poses in which I am sitting and have to bend forward (such as the head-to-knee forward bend), my upper back never lays flat, or anything close to flat. It's always super arched and I cannot make it lay flatter no matter how much I try; it feels like I can't control it at all. I was doing a bit of research and saw it may be something with my spine due to posture. Has anyone else experienced this? Are there any tips to help get the upper back to not be so hunched/arched? Thank you! submitted by /u/stitchin-away [link] [comments]

Chakras - Figurative or Literal? Posted: 09 Sep 2020 12:39 AM PDT Are chakras a real, tangible thing? Is there an observable difference in the body when a chakra is opened? Is it just a term to describe a figurative concept? submitted by /u/eliseinlace [link] [comments]

An article on cultural appropriation of yoga that I found interesting. I'm mixed Indian/white so my relationship to yoga and half of my culture has been... an interesting one to say the least... hope this explains to y'all why this is a conversation the community NEEDS to have Posted: 09 Sep 2020 06:29 AM PDT submitted by /u/TheColorblindDruid [link] [comments]

Toxic instructors Posted: 08 Sep 2020 09:56 PM PDT Hi all. Let me begin by apologizing. I'm ranting about someone I know that is so passionate about Yoga, that he wants to force it on everyone. Context: To be clear, I have practiced over the years, and it changed my life! Highly recommend it. Over time, I needed to do Yoga less, and picked up breathwork. I also dabbled in entheogens/cannabis to help with my depression and anxiety (just pointing out that i'm far from perfect, and I am conscious of my so called "failings"), and reached a place of pure bliss, love, and acceptance for life + those around me. After a long back-and-forth text chain, where he not once listened to what I was saying, attacked my character for using "drugs", called himself God, a woke guruji, deepfaked my face onto an obscene video, forwarded yoga literature while proceeding to contradict them in every way; in the pursuit of wanting to "help me" get better through some twisted sense of compassion and also openly admitting to being an anarchist- while also claiming to be joking. I felt really bad, and tried to help him to understand how what he was saying was perverting the lessons of great teachers, but he kept going, and saying that it was "necessary", and that he's always right. He only heard what he wanted to hear from what I was saying, and twisted my statements with lies to support his incoherent argument about why people that don't do Yoga are lesser beings who need help. Eventually, I had no choice but to truthfully point out what I believed to be his hypocrisy, expressed that freedom of thought is a right, to love/treat one another with respect, and that gurus do not go out trying to convert people. That may have broken something in his brain and he just started going off again, this time defensive, yet still offensive somehow- so I blocked him. Later, he texts me on another platform demanding an apology, also apologizing for what he's about to do- up at 2am threatening to get the cops and my family involved as an misguided strategy to "save my soul." Funnily enough, I meditated on this, and I feel bad for the guy. Having practiced Yoga that changed my life for the better, it worries me that certified instructors like the one described above- who claim to learn from the best- are out here making people feel like crap by convincingly projecting their own insecurities, while telling them that these feelings are their own fault, can be solved with Yoga, and to pay him an exorbitant amount of money to be verbally abused and attacked for not validating/agreeing with his POV. He twists the teachings of Osho, Sadhguru, Ram Dass, etc. to help legitimize what he's saying, this weird, new-age corporate Yoga mentality of being ruthless (while quoting Cobra Kai lol), not being open/kind to anybody else that may challenge his reality. Cognitive dissonance? He maybe has 2 students, but that's according to him. I later understood that he has no real friends, as nobody has the energy to engage with his toxicity. Trying to help through engaging him feels like it made his mental state even worse, and I feel partly responsible. If you'd like to see the full extent of this issue so that I'm not just telling my side of the story , I have anonymized screenshots. Just conscious about sharing a private conversation, even though he dared me to post on reddit for an vote on him being right/wrong. Guy seems quite unstable/dangerous, but at the same time- part of me hopes i'm wrong. submitted by /u/Somniferoussy [link] [comments]

Men and yoga Posted: 09 Sep 2020 12:41 AM PDT What do you guys think about men doing yoga? submitted by /u/ShallotFabulous [link] [comments]

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