Gotta love yoga!!

meeper123

Oh man I was sooo sore yoga just really streches me in all the right places. My favorite pose is transition from cat to cow simple and great for the back. What about you

hbm616

I both love and hate pigeon pose. So good for opening my hips but sometimes it feels like too much.
I also love all the warrior poses, they make me feel so strong!
And downward dog is always a good one =]

Molly_Maguire

Hate yoga. Boring, boring.

BroiledNotFried

Love yoga.

Frog is my move of pain & suffering.
I love Warrior, especially #3

TipsyT

LOVE yoga! So beneficial and relaxing. One of my favorite poses is a restorative one: Supported Fish with Bound Angle. I feel totally open and ready to receive.

Trish

megleo818

PIGEON!! Love, love, love. OMG.

FredDoyle

Nothing wrong with stretching. I've just never called it yoga. That came in with the Beatles and a western discovery and manipulation of eastern practices.

miss_erynn

vinyasa flow...the transition from plank to chaturunga to updog then downdog..... and in a 110 degree room.... even better!

neverstray

I don't care for yoga. It makes me hurt, and it doesn't feel good to me. My boss is from India, and he gave me some really good tips, that have helped a lot. But, still, I don't really like it that much. I am not a flexible person at all. I'm just not. So, some of those poses are very uncomfortable for me. I do, however, like simple stretching.

meeper123

Hate yoga. Boring, boring.

I guess a peacful mind and happy muscles after a long workout is not for everyone

YogaMustin

I LOVE YOGA and I am a yoga teacher

Also love pigeon pose! Another fave is bound half moon. Yoga can be all different things to different people. For some it's a very spiritual experience, while others enjoy the physical benefits most. There are so many types of classes, something for everyone! I teach vinyasa, but also teach classes where it is a vinyasa flow style class but with twist on it, doing hip-hop yoga or black light yoga.

meeper123

I don't care for yoga. It makes me hurt, and it doesn't feel good to me. My boss is from India, and he gave me some really good tips, that have helped a lot. But, still, I don't really like it that much. I am not a flexible person at all. I'm just not. So, some of those poses are very uncomfortable for me. I do, however, like simple stretching.

perhaps a case of too much too soon?

meeper123

I LOVE YOGA and I am a yoga teacher

Also love pigeon pose! Another fave is bound half moon. Yoga can be all different things to different people. For some it's a very spiritual experience, while others enjoy the physical benefits most. There are so many types of classes, something for everyone! I teach vinyasa, but also teach classes where it is a vinyasa flow style class but with twist on it, doing hip-hop yoga or black light yoga.

that sounds fun

horseplaypen

I just started doing the P90X yoga... man that is difficult!! EVERY position is muscle-tremor sweaty torture. But, I can definitely see how it will become super rewarding.

meeper123

I just started doing the P90X yoga... man that is difficult!! EVERY position is muscle-tremor sweaty torture. But, I can definitely see how it will become super rewarding.

thats one type of yoga but there are others hatha yoga is for deep streching

AsaraFuriosa

I'm a huge fan of yoga! The stretch is amazing! I thought one was born flexible... not true at all! I don't love the calorie burn but the way yoga works the muscles, it's so undeniably beneficial! I have Fibromyalgia so doing yoga was really hard but incredibly worth it!!

Triangle pose is my favorite. However pigeon, butterfly, and "the transition from plank to chaturunga to updog then downdog" I learned from P90X is so good!

Moosycakes

I love yoga!

My favourite poses are pigeon pose, camel, and full bridge. I also like the plough and spider.
I really like poses that stretch my back

My least favourite is downward dog. The blood rushes to my head and I get a bit dizzy.

For relaxation, I love child's pose

chefitup123

Standing bow all the way baby!

yoginimary

There's an open group of people that love yoga, please join:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/1484-generic-yoga-group

My favorite pose always changes. I like balance poses and most of the standing poses, backbends, arm balances, and wide-legged forward bends. I tend to not like twists and abs.

kr1stadee

The simple downward dog kills me!! My arms burn and my calf muscles hurt!!

Is it just one of those "suck it up and keep going" things, or am I doing it wrong?? Even during Pilates, those are the moves I dread!!

ChallengeAccepted14

I LOVE yoga!!! It helps my body re-set every week (if that makes sense). If my back is hurting, I know that by the end of yoga.... everything will feel good again.

Although I love Yoga.... I do not always love my Yoga teachers... I have had EXCELLENT ones.... when I leave the class I cant help but smile because it was SUCH a good workout (endorphins) and I have had teachers go through the poses like they are a dance routine (quick quick quick). Personally, I like to stay in a pose for an extended period of time... it makes my muscles work harder... and it makes me loosen up faster so that I can stretch deeper.
HAVE YOU GUYS EXPERIENCED THIS? What do you prefer?

My favorite yoga poses are: Tree Pose, Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose, Cat and Calf, and last but NOT least... Childs Pose.

amberlykay1014

I don't care for yoga. It makes me hurt, and it doesn't feel good to me. My boss is from India, and he gave me some really good tips, that have helped a lot. But, still, I don't really like it that much. I am not a flexible person at all. I'm just not. So, some of those poses are very uncomfortable for me. I do, however, like simple stretching.

Me too! My (soon-to-be) sister in-law is a yoga instructer and I've done several private sessions with her and even went with another friend to a class and I've found there are just soooooo many other things I'd rather do with my time. I too felt uncomfortable and bored (and I'm even pretty flexible). Lame-o. Sorry, OP.

mrsbmccaw

Love warrior poses. A few teacher in my building do yoga with me every Friday. It is wonderful way to end the work week and start a weekend.

Flixie00

I hate yoga, its the top of my list of hated exercise. I have tried it, with different teachers, but no good for me.

gingerveg

LOVE yoga! At this point in my life I think I've tried a good dose of many styles and types. Currently, I'm addicted to hot yoga. I really like the bikram sequence even though it doesn't have any true inversions.

neverstray

I don't care for yoga. It makes me hurt, and it doesn't feel good to me. My boss is from India, and he gave me some really good tips, that have helped a lot. But, still, I don't really like it that much. I am not a flexible person at all. I'm just not. So, some of those poses are very uncomfortable for me. I do, however, like simple stretching.

perhaps a case of too much too soon?

It's possible, which is why I keep doing it. My boss is from India and told me to sloooowwwww wayyyy down when I told him what I was doing. He said it should never hurt or even be hard at all. He said it can take years just to do simple poses if you do it right. So, I've backed way off and it is better, but I still don't like it. I'm not bendy at all.

skinnyforhi

Oh man I was sooo sore yoga just really streches me in all the right places. My favorite pose is transition from cat to cow simple and great for the back. What about you

I love yoga and cat to cow is great! I love tree pose too because you can constantly make it more challenging and the balance poses work so many muscles. I love vinyasa flow but I'm really starting to realize the benefits of yin yoga as a counterpoint to vigorous exercise. I even do yin at home sometimes for 30 minutes before bed to the tune of Soundscapes on the Music Choice channel on my television LOL.

yoginimary

The simple downward dog kills me!! My arms burn and my calf muscles hurt!!

Is it just one of those "suck it up and keep going" things, or am I doing it wrong?? Even during Pilates, those are the moves I dread!!

That's the work of the pose. Where do your arms hurt?

yoginimary

Although I love Yoga.... I do not always love my Yoga teachers... I have had EXCELLENT ones.... when I leave the class I cant help but smile because it was SUCH a good workout (endorphins) and I have had teachers go through the poses like they are a dance routine (quick quick quick). Personally, I like to stay in a pose for an extended period of time... it makes my muscles work harder... and it makes me loosen up faster so that I can stretch deeper.
HAVE YOU GUYS EXPERIENCED THIS? What do you prefer?

Style of yoga matters. Vinyasa or Flow, as the name suggests, moves fairly quickly from one pose to another. I prefer, and do, Iyengar yoga where the poses are held for usually long periods of time.

pamcuster

Yes...I *LOVE* Yoga!!! The last several weeks, I have been walking 5-6 days/week and doing Jillian's 30 Day Shred about 5 days/week, so time-wise I haven't done any yoga until last week...I did a 65-minute Sean Corne DVD, and I was waaayyy more sore the next day than I have been doing my other workouts! It feels...effective!

gingerveg

I LOVE yoga!!! It helps my body re-set every week (if that makes sense). If my back is hurting, I know that by the end of yoga.... everything will feel good again.

Although I love Yoga.... I do not always love my Yoga teachers... I have had EXCELLENT ones.... when I leave the class I cant help but smile because it was SUCH a good workout (endorphins) and I have had teachers go through the poses like they are a dance routine (quick quick quick). Personally, I like to stay in a pose for an extended period of time... it makes my muscles work harder... and it makes me loosen up faster so that I can stretch deeper.
HAVE YOU GUYS EXPERIENCED THIS? What do you prefer?

My favorite yoga poses are: Tree Pose, Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose, Cat and Calf, and last but NOT least... Childs Pose.

That usually has more to do with style than yoga teacher. So you want to stay away from vinyasa and ashtanga styles and any class that has "flow" in it. Stick to hatha try restorative and yin (if you haven't already). Yoga coming from SIvinanda lineage is usually pretty straight forward hatha too (but depending on the teacher this could be fast or slow). The SIvinanda sequence is as you would expect starting with Sun Salutations and ending with Savasana. I've done plenty of this style and it is fairly easy but still demanding enough to be a good workout. I don't think I've ever done Iyengar (lineage from teacher B.K.S. Iyengar he is still alive too) while this kind of yoga is considerably demanding I believe they stay in the poses for a long time and they use hanging props to help get them there (maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong about that). So you might want to look into that. At the moment I recommend hot yoga because the bikram sequence is interesting, fun, and just demanding enough to be "mastered" fairly quickly. It is also a ginormous calorie burn (I log it at almost 1/2 of what calculators say---- if that is any indication). Bikram the man, was kind of a jerk. I hate that he tried to copyright yoga <--- this was the reason I wasn't in a hurray to try it earlier. But boy is it good and you don't have to go to a Bikram certified studio you can go to any hot studio and they are more or less doing the Bikram sequence.

ETA:

Style of yoga matters. Vinyasa or Flow, as the name suggests, moves fairly quickly from one pose to another. I prefer, and do, Iyengar yoga where the poses are held for usually long periods of time.

You beat me to it! Can you tell me about the props used in Iyengar. I believe I have seen hanging straps from the ceiling in Iyengar classes, is this typical? And I believe Iyengar does start out quite slow for the student (as far as advancing poses) because it is about form, form, form almost more than any other style correct? I don't have an Iyengar studio near me but it is a workshop I'd like to attend in the future.