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    Yoga: [COMP] 9 months progress, Slowly but surely!!

    February 27, 2021

    Yoga: [COMP] 9 months progress, Slowly but surely!!

    [COMP] 9 months progress, Slowly but surely!!

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:16 AM PST

    [COMP] Attempt at compass pose today

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:20 AM PST

    Yoga can be nothing

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 12:04 PM PST

    Hello, you

    When I was a child in sport class, I made a decision about myself: I am not athletic. This is a category I would never fit into. I rarely got the support or attention from my sports teachers, my friends all hated sport, and so I just assumed that to be my role, too.

    I have had yoga in my life basically since I was a child. My mother studied yoga and brought me up with some of this philosophy, and when I was a teenager going through normal teenager stuff, she brought me to yoga classes fairly regularly. It was always something I knew about and felt totally comfortable with. When I moved away, I would go to a few classes on my own, and eventually started to follow some videos on Youtube instead of in-person. For over a year now, like many yogis around, I've had a completely isolated yoga experience. I tried Yoga with Adriene, I think she is very sweet and great for people who need a supportive base to explore more. Eventually, I outgrew her and started following Yoga with Tim, who is great as he has very challenging videos, yet keeps the ideals of yoga in the background as he teaches.

    At the beginning of my independent yoga journey, I made note of yoga being quite a physical practice and I could get some fitness out of the experience. Maybe this is the overlap where I can enjoy sport? So I kept challenging myself to go deeper and into more "advanced" poses. I would start to feel guilty if I missed a day. This stayed with me for a really long time. I started to feel ingenuine with my practice.

    About 6 months ago, I picked up running. I love to run. I have been progressing well in it. And this week, my asana practice has been very small. But I feel calm about this. I have made a true connection within myself that yoga is not exercise, yoga is not what my body can do. I do at minimum one sun salutation and maybe 5 minutes of a flow daily, to keep some movement and stretching going on. I feel like running has taken away this weird sense of yoga needing to be exercise...or anything, for that matter. Since I get my exercise elsewhere, it has opened up a new layer of spirituality and peace within myself. I no longer feel pressure to achieve a "fitness goal" or to look like anyone else. In fact, I have strayed away from most Youtube videos and I flow where my body tells me to go.

    I consider yoga every single day of my life. From so many angles. I digest, I redigest, I sit and ponder and often have no answers. When I come across other thoughts and perspectives, I listen but I don't take anything away from it until I've had a chance to fully digest it. Yoga is different for me than it is for you and that is totally okay. Something else I have learned recently, and I mean REALLY learned, is that there isn't a right or wrong way to practice yoga. If you think you are practicing yoga, with your heart and mind totally in it, then it must be yoga. No matter what it looks like - it can even look like nothing.

    -L

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    A 15 minute video made me cry yesterday

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 05:25 PM PST

    After a physically and emotionally exhausting morning at work, I followed through with my commitment to daily yoga and hopped into a video, sans mat and tried to connect to feeling strong. About 8 minutes in, I teared up and even sobbed a bit over frustration and disappointment in my body.

    Today, I was feeling particularly lethargic and was dreading today's 30 minute video. I surprised myself and not only felt strong in the practice, but also had a very restful shavasana and wound up feeling more energized after.

    Doing yoga daily and not just "when I feel like it" is a big challenge, however it leaves tons of opportunities for small victories. So grateful to have gotten to this point in my yoga journey.

    Thanks to everyone for the inspiration! Happy yoga-ing 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧘

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    Structured learning?

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 08:35 AM PST

    Hey guys! I'm not from the US, but I've been seeing random comments and posts about the 200 hour YTT. I'm very new to yoga and don't really intend on being a teacher at this time, but I do crave some kind of extensive course that can really teach me about yoga more so than just doing asanas. I want to understand the myriad of breath techniques, the history, everything. Just a deeper understanding of the practice. I'm not from the US, and there doesn't seem to be any yoga certifications or classes that extend beyond asanas in my country (Trinidad and Tobago). I definitely crave some sort of structure in my learning. So that has led me to seek some sort of online training. Do you have any recommendations?

    Further, can you tell me what the YTT is about and if you've had any experience with it? Is it available fully online?

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    Cramp in arch of left foot

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 03:47 PM PST

    Hi,

    Only started yoga in the new year. I have been doing 4 or 5 sessions a week.

    During my last few yoga sessions, I have noticed that I get a sharp sore cramp on the base of my foot.

    This occurs when in "child's pose" and "Vajrasana". I also have a small pain in my left knee. I believe that these are connected.

    Any tips to help the cramping? Also how this my be connected to my knee pain

    Thanks. :)

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    Haven't been to studio yoga since COVID....what to expect...(hot classes)

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:40 AM PST

    I used to practice at a hot studio regularly and unfortunately the studio did not survive because of COVID 😞. With the exception of a few outdoor classes back in the summer, I haven't practiced since.

    There is another hot studio near by and I am contemplating going to check it out but not sure it's worth it just yet. I've been fully vaccinated but I am guessing they will want us to wear masks during the class?

    No judgment but I don't know if I can bring myself to go if this is a rule most studios are enforcing.

    TIA!!

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    Advice for re-starting a yoga practice

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 09:22 AM PST

    Hello, I need the help of the reddit yogis. I am a forty-something yogini, and I have a dilemma and was hoping you would all give me an honest opinion.

    I have been a yogi for over 20 years, but I wasn't very consistent with my practice. About 5 years ago I got very serious with my practice, I was athletic and strong and was practising 6 days a week. And I loved it, I also did my YTT about this time.

    But then, there's always a but, I got involved with a man and my yoga started to slide. We broke up and it was messy, and I fell apart. To add to all this I developed kidneys stones and had to undergo sereveral operations to try and remove them. The pain was intolerable and I stopped practicing yoga. Then I had two cancer scares (breast and cervical), I came back clear but it was more stress and agonising and I was stuggling to cope with it all. God knows how I did it but I did.

    Fast forward to now. I am 5 stone over weight (no activity and comfort eating). I feel a heap of shame and I am still in pain. So, would I be foolish to try and restart my Ashtanga practice (as this is what I was doing before it all went to hell) or should I focus on Yin & Restorative and Yoga therapy?

    I am so torn as I really miss the old me but do understand that things change. Covid hasn't helped either - with gyms being shut, I am based in the UK. Any advice would be gratefully received. Thank you.

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    [Discussion] Is yoga in the West as we see it today a result of white supremacy or a cultural obsession with materialism?

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:53 AM PST

    I would like to start a discussion on this topic with this community. All I ask is that you think critically about this and do your best to not be reactive with your responses.

    There are certainly racial issues in our culture and I acknowledge my privilege in this regard. That being said more and more I'm seeing posts and comments about modern yoga today being white washed and in my opinion that's only a sliver of the issue. I believe the deeper issues come from Western culture's obsession with materialism and in the context of yoga, our bodies. At the turn of the 20th century (even before that, arguably) Western culture began moving away from religious and spiritual ideals and dove full force in to materialism. Our industrial revolution and our now obsession with technological advancement reveals that a big part of modern problems is much more psychological than racial. It's become trendy and frankly too easy to use race as the blanket issue in our culture. In moving away from spiritual ideals we've also cut ourselves off from nature and in doing so we've developed well pronounced egos, individually and culturally. The mind/ego is what separates the individual from the whole and ideas like "this race is stronger/better than that race" begin to take root. I believe that in order to resolve the racial issues in our culture we have to begin addressing this psychological wound in the culture and in the individual. I am not saying that racial issues aren't a part of the problem but that the broader issue is psychological.

    When Iyengar and Patthabi Jois brought yoga to the West, the practice was already focused on the body and the postures. For Westerners, the physical approach to yoga is what drew them in to the practice and over time the mental and spiritual benefits started taking root. The same can be said about the practice today. People show up to heal their bodies and get stronger and more flexible and with time the deeper teachings of yoga take root. How can someone contemplate deep spiritual teachings or practice the mental aspect of yoga when their bodies hurt all the time? We show up to the mat to relieve ourselves of chronic pain and be more at ease in our vessels. The eight limbs of the Ashtangha system clearly maps this process. The first four limbs are about cleansing and strengthening the body and the mind so that we may later sit comfortably and concentrate our minds. I do agree that we as a culture just stop at the first four limbs but it is not a racial issue. It's our obsession with materialism that keeps us from even being curious about the mind and spirituality. Even most yoga teachers stop at the first four limbs and that's okay too. In the end, you can only take someone as far as you've taken yourself and so as a teacher if I'm disenchanted with modern yoga then it's up to me to keep diving deeper in myself and my practice so that I may bring the change I want to see in the practice.

    I'm looking forward to hearing from all you and please keep it civil. Much love to you all!

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    Best yoga progression program from beginner to advanced? Seeking recommendations

    Posted: 27 Feb 2021 07:34 AM PST

    Hey everyone,

    I've been doing beginner yoga for a while and am having a hard time finding a program to help bring me from beginner to intermediate. Ideally, I'd like to progress to handstands and more difficult poses but all of the programs I've found online are either a bit too easy or too difficult at this point. I find myself in this strange middle point. I've been trying to find a yoga program online that transitions from beginner to intermediate (kinda like couch to 5k for jogging) but I've been searching endlessly. Does anyone have any recommendations for something like this? Greatly appreciate any help or recommendations ❤

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    Breath and Motivation + Yoga on YouTube?

    Posted: 26 Feb 2021 09:46 AM PST

    Hello!

    I've been doing YWA for 3 months. I'm feeling it's time to challenge myself more.

    I tried Yoga with Tim and I missed the breath cues from YWA.

    I tired Five Parks Yoga and I missed the motivation and encouragement I got from YWA.

    I'm cool with doing a little bit of everyone to get my yoga fix. But I just wanted to ask if maybe there was someone I was missing.

    I've searched the forum a ton and subscribed to a bunch of Youtube Yoga channels.

    I'm really looking for intermediate/beginner yoga with lots of breathing cues and maybe some self-love/motivation/encouragement thrown in.

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