Yoga: January Challenge Daily Thread |
- January Challenge Daily Thread
- Made me smile, thought I would share!
- [COMP] Trying to work on balancing �� This is just for fun��
- New to Yoga!
- "You are holding up the sky with the crown of your head."
- Migraine relief?
- Beginner seeking some advice!
- Hosting Free, 60-minute Virtual Vinyasa (Power) Class through Zoom- January 14th, 8 PM EST w/ Instructor Jenn Seabolt
- Tight side hip in one legged side plank?
- Newbie needing guidance
- Achey after yoga?
- Any suggestions for different ways to hold the toe in poses like utthita hasta padangusthasana? I’ve used a strap and held the side of my foot as an alternative but it’s always really uncomfortable. Thanks!
- Learning to let go and restart
- Small yoga businesses to support?
- Questions for yoga teachers
- [COMP] How to use a Chair to your benefit 3.0
- Always Sore!
- mat suggestions
- Advice for my Mother (shoulder impingement)
- Why does down dog on the wall pose hurt my arms so much?
| January Challenge Daily Thread Posted: 06 Jan 2021 07:01 PM PST Share your experiences here! Looking for a challenge? There's a list here. [link] [comments] |
| Made me smile, thought I would share! Posted: 06 Jan 2021 01:00 PM PST |
| [COMP] Trying to work on balancing �� This is just for fun�� Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:03 PM PST |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 12:02 PM PST Yesterday I started my journey in yoga. I am trying to commit to a daily yoga practice this year. I have been going through a lot over the past few years and am about to go through some more. I have wanted to do yoga for a while and just never did. So here we go, a new year, a new focus. Here's to moving past the trauma and loving me for me. [link] [comments] |
| "You are holding up the sky with the crown of your head." Posted: 06 Jan 2021 11:54 AM PST I believe I found this tip in a book called Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, but it has really helped me with posture, aligning myself, and projecting positive energy in yoga and outside of it. Just wanted to share! Any other little gems like this you've found over the years? p.s. holding up the sky is everyone's job so please don't slack off I don't want the sky to fall in you guys [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 08:31 AM PST I'm new to the practice and started mainly to increase flexibility and hopefully slow down the aging process. I've just entered the post menopause stage of life and while my symptoms are generally manageable I do struggle with hormone related migraines. These impact me monthly and although the meds do clear the headache I still feel horrible for a few days after. I've seen online that several asanas are good for migraines. My question is have any other ladies have had a similar issue that improved and which asanas were best (given I'm brand new and not that flexible yet!) Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 09:52 AM PST Hello all! I'm a new yoga practicer and have been LOVING it! i've been practicing for about 5 days, so i'm just starting. I'm an 18 year old male, who is fit and pretty flexible and all of the beginner practices have been really easy for me to do. I'm feeling a very very tolerable amount of soreness from my practice and i'm wondering if it's perfectly fine to keep practicing every evening/day or should i be taking breaks for my body to recover? If it's okay to just keep on pushing on them that is great, the soreness is mild and doesn't interfere with practice. i would love some beginners tips and tricks! thank you all! Peace & Love [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 10:45 AM PST Hey everyone, Define is hosting a Free, 60-minute, Virtual Vinyasa (Power) Class through Zoom on January 14th at 8 PM EST with Instructor Jenn Seabolt. Everyone is welcome! Click here for the Sign-up form (It's a google doc form). On the day of the event, we will be emailing everyone the link and the password to the zoom meeting. Class Description: This 60-minute Vinyasa (Power) Class is set to music and structured to get your breath and body moving. Open to all levels, this class will offer you the chance to challenge yourself in the way that your body needs at the moment, while also allowing you to tune out the rest of your day and focus in on your mat. Bio about Jenn: Jenn Seabolt took her first yoga class over eight years ago to help heal a back injury and has had a consistent yoga practice ever since. She received her 200-hour yoga teaching certificate in 2015, and taught at Corepower Yoga in both Hawaii and Boston over the next five years. Once the COVID-19 pandemic hit and physical studios shut down, she transitioned to teaching virtually on social media, and more recently at Kelly's Home Studio. Jenn loves how yoga challenges people both physically and mentally, and has a passion to help others learn how to incorporate the many benefits of yoga into their lives. Whether this is your first or 100th class, you'll leave your mat feeling stronger, and she promises you'll have had fun! Let me know if anyone has questions! [link] [comments] |
| Tight side hip in one legged side plank? Posted: 06 Jan 2021 03:36 PM PST Hi yogis, hoping for some help! I'm an intermediate-ish level in my practice and looking to work towards a full Eka Pada Vasisthasana (with the extended leg and held top foot). I can hold the plank no problem and can raise my top leg on both slides to slightly above horizontal, but if I try to go any further, my hip abductors spasm and I have to stop and rest in child's pose for 30 seconds until the pain subsides. Wondering if this is a flexibility issue or a strength issue, or if anyone has experienced this before & how to work through it! Thanks :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 02:55 PM PST Hi 👋 I've started a 30day yoga challenge... I'm onto day 6 and I'm just wondering when does the pain stop 🙈😂 I'm struggling to hold poses (I have zero upper body strength!!) Falling often and keep forgetting to breath..... does that all kinda fall into place as you practice or do I need to be more focused on breathing and relaxing? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 11:05 AM PST I started yoga before Christmas. It was a yoga class. I struggled to hold many of the poses but the instructor was great and gave me adaptations I could do. I was doing yoga and pilates alongside the gym for about a month. Christmas happened, then I had to look after my grandparents for a week and then UK lockdown occurred. So I did absolutely nothing for about 3 weeks. Yesterday I started yoga on YouTube (yoga with bird). I'm doing her yoga for inflexibile people. I could do everything in the video. When I checked my fitbit stats, during the 20min session, my rate stayed between 50-55bpm for around 5 minutes. I've been stressed to fuck and my resting HR is around 64bpm at the moment. So I assumed I managed to get in the yoga zone. It certainly felt like it at the time. Anyway. Today, I am sore as hell. I feel fluey but it's not the flu as I have no other symptoms. I just feel like my body has been through the wars. But there was nothing in the video that engaged my muscles so to speak. Nothing was trembling. It was just light stretches. My aches doesn't feel like DOMS. It's like a deep, achey pain. Has this got anything to do with yoga or am I just ill? Aha. [link] [comments] |
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| Learning to let go and restart Posted: 06 Jan 2021 12:35 AM PST Yoga has always been a deeply emotional and spiritual connection for me. It starts when I step on my mat, my true safe haven. I love my mat. In 2019 I was practicing daily at a studio I loved and really learned to love myself through my practice. In early 2020 I moved, leaving the studio. When I left,I struggled to find my home practice. Stepping on my mat reminded me of the studio I loved, my daily routine around yoga that left me feeling so fulfilled. I told it would be okay not to practice until I found a new studio. Stepping on my mat and thinking of what I had left was too hard. I'd just wait until I could pick it all up again. Then, Covid. I spent 2020 waiting for studios to open that never did. When I did roll out my mat, it took me back to a time I longed for. A studio I belonged to, friends in old cities. Life before Covid. It was too painful for me to step on my mat and process those feelings. So I didn't. I let mat sit while I waited and waited for a studio to open that never did. What I lost in that time was why I am so passionate for yoga, why I'm so attached to this old blue mat. It's because it allows me to let the feelings leave me and melt into my mat. It lets my breathe, grow, and let go. So, here's to 2021 and doing what it takes to reconnect with my mat, my practice, and myself. For those of you who stayed to read my journey and my resolution, namaste 🙏🏼 [link] [comments] |
| Small yoga businesses to support? Posted: 06 Jan 2021 05:11 AM PST Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but what small yoga businesses would be good to support? I am in need of new blocks and a mat and maybe just some odds and ends but I am really trying not to purchase from Amazon or other big box type stores but I am having a hard time finding a store or stores to support! I am in the U.S if this makes a difference. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 11:53 AM PST I'm beginning a 200-hour yoga teacher training on Jan 10 2021, after nearly 10 years of doing yoga on my own. I'm taking the training online from Happy Jack Yoga University. More information about Happy Jack Yoga can be found here. I've mostly done unguided yoga on my own, thus I have a lack of role models and inspiration to inspire and teach how to build my career around yoga. Visualizing teaching yoga as a profession must be simpler if you have a role model. Current yoga teachers out there, did you have an inspirational person you looked up to and took example from before becoming a yoga teacher? I will learn about creating a sole trader and start freelancing after receiving adequate knowledge about the science of yoga. I will probably continue on studying in the 300-hour yoga teacher training after the 200-hour training. Do you have any other suggestions or actions I can do while the training is taking place and after I graduate from the 200-hour teacher training? [link] [comments] |
| [COMP] How to use a Chair to your benefit 3.0 Posted: 06 Jan 2021 03:35 AM PST |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 06:49 AM PST Hi, Fellow yogis! I'm looking for feedback! 33 (F). I've been doing hot power yoga very regularly (5-7x a week) for the last two and a half years (minus 6 months of lockdown from March - Sept). Since early September the studios opened back up and I've been going basically daily since then. My dilemma is that I'm still sore every day and it's starting to get to me! I do epsom salt baths, salon pas patches, and eat pretty healthy. I do drink a decent amount of wine regularly not sure if or how much that is delaying my recovery time. My soreness is usually in my hips, biceps, and shoulders. At my one studio, there are a decent amount of people I see who also practice everyday including the owner. And at the other studio I go to, they sometimes have 30 day challenges to push yourself to do it every day. So I don't think I'm crazy for wanting to practice daily. So I'm wondering is something wrong? Should I still be sore this often or shouldn't my body be used to it by now? Any feedback from you all would be very appreciated!! Namaste! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 09:20 AM PST hi, everyone! r/yoga newbie here- looking for suggestions for a new yoga mat. the one I have is old and slippery, and i'm tired of borrowing my roommate's. a few things: -My hands often get sweaty during my practice, and i've read that the Manduka mats tend to be slippery for sweatier people -Please, don't recommend Lululemon -i've heard Jade mats are super sticky. my dog often hangs around while i'm doing my practice- will there be any sort of issue with dog hair sticking to the mat if I get a jade? -I've heard good things about cork mats - anyone here have one/ have anything to say about those? -I usually practice in my basement on a cement floor, and sometimes on carpet. extra points for eco-friendly/fair trade companies. I know that doesn't jive with reasonable pricing sometimes, but i'm definitely willing to spend more for an eco-friendly, fair trade product. thanks in advance! edits for more detail and readability [link] [comments] |
| Advice for my Mother (shoulder impingement) Posted: 06 Jan 2021 09:01 AM PST Hello Yogis, Now my question: Is there some yoga routine which isnt as reliant on the shoulders so she can still do it? Many thanks in advance [link] [comments] |
| Why does down dog on the wall pose hurt my arms so much? Posted: 06 Jan 2021 06:51 AM PST I feel such a rush of good energy after doing this shoulder opener, but during it, my arms are killing me. Most of the time I can only handle 20 seconds and I have to stop. Does this happen to anyone else? [link] [comments] |
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