Yoga uggghhh

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  • okfitmom
    okfitmom Posts: 8
    Try Power Yoga (Baptiste Yoga) It's a quicker pace, without a lot of the fluff. Even some sun salutations when you wake up in the morning are great, you can You Tube how to, then bust them out on your own with music you love.

    Before I had kids I was (still am) a Yoga Teacher, I have heard it all. Flower your buttocks is my personal fav, I have yet to figure out what it actually means.
  • kcmcd
    kcmcd Posts: 239 Member
    I said I hated yoga for a long time, but I've found an instructor I really like, and happily attend her class now. I don't mind the "breathe into your back" so much. I just try to stretch a little bit there. You know like when you lift if you think about the muscle you want to use? It's like that, more than anything.

    What I really like is the focus on accepting what your body wants you to do. All week long I make my muscles work and I make my body submit. At yoga I do the scan and find "this is a little tight" or "that feels spent" or "over here is stronger than last week". It's neat to see what changes have happened during the week.

    And it used to be hard to completely clear my mind, but I've got a subject I like to "meditate on" now in the final pose - and once or twice I have fallen asleep for a minute or two. Luckily it's not an out cold kind of asleep and I come right back when the lights go on. But. Still. lol
  • Gingergal12
    Gingergal12 Posts: 64 Member
    I fell in love with yoga 2 years ago. It has helped :love: with my body flexibility and my ability to not sweat the small stuff mentally. I equate it to a really, really good glass of wine!
  • Sweet_Pea4
    Sweet_Pea4 Posts: 447 Member
    I really want to start yoga but I am not flexible at all. Can't even touch the floor with my legs straight lol. Traveling at the moment so can't really join a class. Any one know any useful online resources I could try for yoga and to improve flexibility? Thanks :)
  • okfitmom
    okfitmom Posts: 8
    Yoga Glo and My Yoga Online have tons of online classes, lots of different instructors and types of Yoga. I think you have to pay a monthly membership but I think they usually offer 2 weeks free or something like that, or You Tube. So if touching your toes is a goal you could search Yoga for tight hamstrings etc and you should get loads of tips.
    I really want to start yoga but I am not flexible at all. Can't even touch the floor with my legs straight lol. Traveling at the moment so can't really join a class. Any one know any useful online resources I could try for yoga and to improve flexibility? Thanks :)
  • Sweet_Pea4
    Sweet_Pea4 Posts: 447 Member
    Ah brilliant thanks very much for your help :)
  • amaysngrace
    amaysngrace Posts: 742 Member
    Good info on here!
  • Sweet_Pea4
    Sweet_Pea4 Posts: 447 Member
    I bought a yoga book too which has all moves from beginers to advanced :)

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