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    Yoga: January Challenge Daily Thread

    January Challenge Daily Thread

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 07:01 PM PST

    Share your experiences here!

    Looking for a challenge? There's a list here.

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    a beginner’s observation: I have been SO tense all of my life

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 11:53 AM PST

    I've started doing yoga this year. I didn't really know how to start, so I began with Yoga with Adriene's Breath series after someone recommended it to me.

    I am just so beyond shocked at how tense I've been my whole life, I'm realizing this is the first time I've ever consciously stretched. Not to mention, I'm stretching parts of my body I didn't consider stretching. My hands, the soles of my feet, etc. I'm feeling surprisingly sore.

    I've had anxiety for all of my life, and this is the first time I really feel the long-term effects of my constant worrying and over-thinking. I'm so tense in my face, my jaw, my shoulders.

    Anyway, now that I've been putting in the effort to meditate, practice yoga, UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF MY BREATH, for the first time, I feel like reaching a more peaceful existence is possible. Feeling grateful and I can't wait to continue and heal.

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    Making sure I get on the mat when I wake up

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 03:28 PM PST

    [COMP] my cat-censored puppydog pose!

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:04 PM PST

    [COMP] This is day 20 of Adrienne's Breath Series. [MIC]

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 11:28 AM PST

    [COMP] Dancers variation while hiking through Arizona!

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 07:23 PM PST

    [COMP] longest tuck handstand so far away from the wall! ��

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 07:59 PM PST

    [COMP] No studio, no problem. Friday night sunset yoga has become a ritual

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 07:48 PM PST

    anyone else not do yoga or stretch for a day or two and your body feels sooo tight and is craving a stretch?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 08:11 PM PST

    i always feel like this if i dont do yoga or atleast stretch my body. especially in my hips, i feel a lot of tightness

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    2 pieces I recently finished around sacred geometry, thought some of you might like them :)

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:59 AM PST

    Trying to find my yoga practice again amidst a pandemic and isolation

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 05:27 PM PST

    So, I'm 25. I've always wanted to start a yoga practice. After doing lots of high impact workouts and sustaining many injuries in the past, I really had decided that I wanted to make yoga my sole workout routine. I also feel a yogic lifestyle as a whole really more so aligns with my values and who I want to be.

    Anyways, I briefly began my yoga practice around this time last year. I was still dealing with some body pain as a result of injuries and just a terrible mattress (which I finally replaced this year), but I was in love with my experience in a studio. I felt as though I was among likeminded people who resonated more with me and my vision and values than I have anywhere else. The environment was welcoming, calming, and even though I got the crap kicked out of me (I accidentally walked into the wrong class - a 90 minute heated one...oops), I came back daily for about a month. And I recall one of the most powerful moments I experienced in a collective setting was a long "Om" chant in Mountain Pose. And as someone who's very introverted and often worried about judgement, it was very cathartic, and I've grown to love chanting (Kundalini is a favorite!)

    Long story short, I really fell in love with yoga and the environment. However, lockdown obviously put that on pause. Working out at home in my small apartment, whether it be yoga or anything else, is *miserable* for me. A big part of working out is the community to me. After a long time, I thought I found an atmosphere I belonged in. But, the pandemic has been especially isolating. My job took me somewhere very far away from home and as soon as I began and signed a lease, I was furloughed. I've dealt with extreme isolation and depression. I'm by myself every single day. And I'm in a part of the United States, that I just don't trust with how they've handled the pandemic. I don't think I will feel safe until I can get the vaccine.

    So, that's unfortunately apparently off the table. There's not much yoga available near me anyways. But, I long for that community again. I've tried at home and sometimes I get really into it, but I'll practice for 3-4 weeks and drop off. And now, it's been probably 6 months since I've practiced last. Again, my living room is just so depressing. I live in boxes hoping I can move soon and find a new job, I don't know anybody. I did try virtual classes, but those sort of vary. I just have had so much trouble motivating myself to do a workout when the tv is right there and I don't want to put on my workout clothes.

    I'm wondering if anyone else has missed this, found solutions, or has struggled with a home practice. I'd really love to be a part of a community where we do all practice together in real-time or even like a live guided meditation on Zoom and a group reflection after the fact. But, I can't find much of anything that fosters community. I'm just wondering how people who need that gym/studio environment have adapted, or if there are any communities of like minded people that you can sort of get some of that vibe back with.

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    At home practice

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 05:25 PM PST

    Looking for some advice here - I practice 3-4 days a week at a studio, but would like to start practicing at home on the days I can't make it to the studio. I struggle with practicing at home and I think its because I easily get overwhelmed by trying to figure out what to do. It sounds silly, and like it shouldn't be that hard, but this is where I'm at.

    My question for you guys is, how did you start your at home practices? Did you write up a plan or wing it?

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    Is Savasana Required?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 04:19 AM PST

    Yoga Pose Generator- Generate a Random Yoga Pose with the Yoga Pose Generator

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:35 PM PST

    Do I really need a wider and/or thicker mat?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 04:14 AM PST

    Posting to ask the question as I can't find anything like this searching past posts.

    I'm a 6'0 tall guy and trying to get back into yoga (working at home and sitting all day has really hit me hard). I'm struggling with a cheap mat I got years ago which measures 179x61cm, which seems to be a standard size. I'm already resolved on getting one that's 200cm long, at least, but wondering whether I should aim for a wide one too?

    The main motivation is that some poses (primarily wide child's pose) have my knees off the edge of the mat and it's very painful.

    Do I really need a wide mat or am I just being pathetic/doing something wrong?

    I'd wondered too whether weight is anything to do with it. I don't know what thickness my current mat is but for taller people, who naturally weigh more (I weigh ca. 78-9kg), it would make sense that a standard thickness would also be too thin - it's putting more pressure through your joints. Kneeling poses in particular are pretty painful as the top of my tibia presses into the ground, not my knee, but this may just down to genetics.

    Thanks for any advice!

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    Do you practice yoga while being pregnant? Is it safe?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:28 AM PST

    Yoga for people with vertigo?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 08:53 AM PST

    I always wanted to do yoga and I've taken professional classes on four separate occasions. On each of these occasions I left the class feeling awful. One time I fell down the stairs on my way out of the class and another I had to spend the next hour in the corner waiting for my head to stop spinning before I could leave. Since then I've been afraid to try yoga again, I think I know what my problem is and that is every time I go I get really bad vertigo. I tried to go to a class after I figured this out and informed the teacher, asking if there were some modified versions of some of the poses I could do that would keep me from getting sick but they weren't helpful because they didn't want to help me when there was an entire class to focus on and that really discouraged me from trying again.

    I've been trying to do some research on my own but even when I Google yoga for people with vertigo there are a lot of poses that require you to put your head beneath your waist, that's what triggers my vertigo, repeatedly dipping at my head below my waist. I can do it once, maybe twice but any more than that I start getting dizzy and sick. I've done some modified versions of some poses, like downward dog putting my hands on the edge of the couch but was wondering if there was any resource that would help me find or modified poses that would keep me from putting my head below my waist? I don't really know where to go to look for that kind of information or what to type into search for it, I haven't been successful in finding anything like that so far, I'm hoping that someone here may know. Thank you for reading!

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    Beginner here: how do I learn the crow pose?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2021 06:03 AM PST

    I have very little core and upper body strength and would like to learn the crow pose! Would appreciate any tips on how to develop the strength to do so :)

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    cold feet and imposter syndrome going into YTT

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:29 PM PST

    After thinking about this for a very long time, I am finally starting my first YTT. I'm so excited and I feel so happy and lucky to be given a scholarship. No school has resonated more to me and I am so excited to start learning more about my practice and myself.

    To kick things off, I am learning more about me before this even starts. 10 days to go, and I all of a sudden have so much anxiety and fear because I can't do any of the more challenging asanas like handstand or forearm stand. It's just not a part of my practice. I know it sounds silly and these shouldn't be a prerequisite to joining a training, but I am afraid of the feelings that will arise comparing myself to others.

    Has anyone ever felt the same? any advise will be appreciated.

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    I wear ear buds when I practice at home and I get pretty deep in a meditative state in savasana...

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:19 PM PST

    And I swear dude...one day Isaiah is going to give me a heart attack when he comes back in for the finish. It seriously startles me and it's kind of annoying. Does this happen to y'all??

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