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A friend swears that he can stay focused while doing yoga. But maybe his brain is a little different from other brains as he is on the autism spectrum.
The rest of us do what we can. For me, yoga is more about the process than the state.0 -
I've had some experience with autism. One of my son's university classmates is a red-headed version of Sheldon Cooper. For the past three years, he boarded with us during the school semesters. They definitely do have a different view of the world. I wonder if yoga would help him to focus?
For myself, I prefer yin yoga... slow meditative stretches with asana held for up to five minutes. There are physical benefits but, in my case, they're outweighed by the mental benefits. As odd as this might sound, I get more benefit from yin yoga than I do from regular meditation. When I meditate, I find it more difficult to remain centred than while doing yoga as the stretches give me something to focus on.0 -
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Before Matthew is just a memory...one more hurricane funny. At least when the waves are up, it's a good way to get the cardio in.
BTW, not belittling Matthew's tragic affects...lots of cleanup to do in NE FL, GA and SC. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those negatively affected by it, especially those in Haiti and Cuba. But those of us in FL, do have a bit of an odd sense of humor when it comes to hurricanes and tropical storms. Sometimes you have to laugh else all you will do is cry.2 -
I've had some experience with autism. One of my son's university classmates is a red-headed version of Sheldon Cooper. For the past three years, he boarded with us during the school semesters. They definitely do have a different view of the world. I wonder if yoga would help him to focus?
For myself, I prefer yin yoga... slow meditative stretches with asana held for up to five minutes. There are physical benefits but, in my case, they're outweighed by the mental benefits. As odd as this might sound, I get more benefit from yin yoga than I do from regular meditation. When I meditate, I find it more difficult to remain centred than while doing yoga as the stretches give me something to focus on.
He reports that Yoga does seem to help him focus. He likes Tree pose especially for that focus.
Meditation by itself is hard, one teacher explained to me, in part because we do not have the tradition in the West.
I like your explanation of the meditative benefits of yin yoga with asanas held for relatively long periods.1 -
Before Matthew is just a memory...one more hurricane funny. At least when the waves are up, it's a good way to get the cardio in.
BTW, not belittling Matthew's tragic affects...lots of cleanup to do in NE FL, GA and SC. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those negatively affected by it, especially those in Haiti and Cuba. But those of us in FL, do have a bit of an odd sense of humor when it comes to hurricanes and tropical storms. Sometimes you have to laugh else all you will do is cry.
Seeing the surfers on t.v. out in the storm does make me smile. They have few chances in Florida to get some waves.
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I had a yoga teacher encourage the rare extra strong flexible dude to show us his full expression of the move we were doing. I get that having an example provides the class a picture of where some might be striving towards, but it felt out of place in that particular group.
I cannot explain why it felt off. Maybe she handled the timing wrong . . . We sort of stopped the rhythm of the class to put him on stage.1 -
When I was doing karate regularly, one of the female instructors often used me when she wanted to demonstrate a technique. Part of the reason was that I was skilled enough that she didn't have to worry about injuring me. Another part was she got a kick (pun intended) out of sparring with someone so much larger than her. She usually told the students that when doing techniques with someone so much larger, you needed to do everything right or else you're in trouble. I didn't say anything about it for the longest time until one day she said something about how if you were large and strong, you didn't need good technique. I spoke up and said size and strength aren't a substitute for technique... and when she used me as her "attacker" and tried a technique, instead of cooperating, I dropped my centre of gravity and became immovable. When her technique failed, she tried again... and again... She stepped back and gave me a look. I said that's the difference between size/power and technique. Similar to your situation... the rhythm of the class was thrown off.Those are funny
I had a yoga teacher encourage the rare extra strong flexible dude to show us his full expression of the move we were doing. I get that having an example provides the class a picture of where some might be striving towards, but it felt out of place in that particular group.
I cannot explain why it felt off. Maybe she handled the timing wrong . . . We sort of stopped the rhythm of the class to put him on stage.1 -
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^^ I soooo feel like this some days. I actually have a friend that I call the "tin man" because he has so much metal (pins and plates) in his body from various breaks and surgeries...I suspect this would resonate with him...lol.1
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I had the screws, pins and plate removed once the leg was healed, partly because one of the screws was backing out (yikes) and I disliked being searched each time I went through the airport scanner.^^ I soooo feel like this some days. I actually have a friend that I call the "tin man" because he has so much metal (pins and plates) in his body from various breaks and surgeries...I suspect this would resonate with him...lol.1 -
Yea, my friend rarely flies commercial since he's not a fan of the full body search either...
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Was looking for some motivating pictures for an MFP challenge group that I'm, when I came across this one...had to share it here...4
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