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Aneirin -> Yoga (9/18/2008 4:33:47 PM)

As I sit here and recover from a particularly heavy session of Iyengar yoga, where the tutor was a sadistic bastard this session, I wonder how many others here do Yoga, so who does, and what type do you do ?

Also are you like me, I dread it, I do not look forward to it but force myself to go. When I am there, usually in pain, but trying not to think of the pain, I can't wait until it is over. When it is over , I am elated, it offers a level of relaxation only comparable to one other thing, and I feel so good about myself and there can't wait to be doing it again. The thought that I hate it, the day upto it and the doing, all forgotten and written off as rubbish. But I know, come next week, I will be dreading it again and looking for excuses not to go.

Is this just me, or do others feel the same ?

If you know about this, can you offer an explanation why I go through a love, hate relationship with yoga ?



Vendaval -> RE: Yoga (9/18/2008 8:58:14 PM)

Wow Aneirin, none of the yoga sessions I have ever been to were like what you are describing here.  Are you trying to touch your big toe to your tonsils or something?  Hot yoga became trendy a while back on the West Coast, you go into a hot room and sweat during the whole session.



Aneirin -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 11:50:33 AM)

Well, Iyengar yoga is all about accuracy and correct alignment, and it does achieve results fast, but one really has to work hard at it. Me, I sought Iyengar because I wished to learn to dance, and it was a dance instructor who told me that my natural standing posture was really screwed up. I could not open any of my joints to their full extent, hips especially, hip locks were so difficult for me, I was sort of crumpled and rigid. This was because of the wear and tear of life, I had had two serious back injuries, my core muscles were shot, my shoulders tilted to one side and my hips twisted forward, the cause, auto wrecks I expect, for I have been in a few. That and the sloppiness of posture in life. So, I had a lot of work to do, and now a couple of months later, my alignment is starting to correct itself, but boy, it hurts, doing asanas that stretch the ligaments to their maximum, and following my correct instruction, I am doing these exercises daily, except when I do a class, it hurts more, as the instructor is a hard task master, who has to see the correct muscle groups working before he will allow relaxation. I hate it, but it is working, my stance is straighter but relaxed, and my movement has become fluid.



shyhuzzy -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 12:03:04 PM)

So why don't you investigate the different types of Yoga that are not so harsh.  You have stated you have had several injuries in the past from various different things, though you are willing to push yourself into another situation that may cause another injury?  Which you know is very possible in Yoga.  I practice Yoga in my own home due to there being no classes anywhere feasible to drive to from where I live at this time.  The instructors that I have had in the past where not the task Master that you have described and they were willing to work at a much slower pace due to my own injuries and arthritis so not to cause a injury. This said, I quite looked forward to all of the classes that I have been able to attend.



Vendaval -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 12:17:56 PM)

At least you are increasing your pain tolerance, Aneirin.  But there are other ways to accomplish similar results.  You have several different types of yoga to choose from plus numerous exercise classes and weight training to strengthen core muscles.  And pretty much any dance class will aid in your grace and balance.
 
I am reminded of a Gary Larson Far Side cartoon showing an aerobics class in Hell.  One of the Devil's minions is leading the class in front of the burning flames and the gasping prisoners are chanting out, " 119, 120, 121!"  as they contort themselves and defy gravity.  Of course if she/he has a whip that might appeal to most on this site.
 
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Aneirin -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 12:42:06 PM)

I have done another type of yoga and from that instruction carried on with it for years, but it did not quite achieve the results I desired apart from keeping myself from siezing up. I used to basically stretching exercises prior to work starting with sun salutation, then a course of legs, back, arms and neck exercises. Just slow relaxed stuff, with little extension. What I do now, is achieving the results I desired so long ago, and the aim being that I may become the best that I can be within myself, without having to do other exercises to build muscles. Everything I desire is achievable with what I have, buff is not what I desire, just flexibility and the toning of myself as I am. I also do pilates from time to time, and it was pilates that helped me get over the back injuries.

Dancing, well, it is yet another form of exercise and toning, but it is an exercise where one can have fun to music.



SingleRarity -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 1:19:59 PM)

I prefer Vinyasa Flow over most other types.  Hate, hate, hate Bikram. 

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Vendaval -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 6:49:04 PM)

Pilates helps with old back injuries?  I need to check into that.



Aneirin -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 7:20:08 PM)

It was some six years ago I slipped my first disc,whilst lifting a small object out of thick mud, the sucking and release effect I did not think about. The small object became unbelievably heavy, then released into lightness, it was there my back went. I had to drive some thirty miles like that, five of which required four wheel drive, it was not the most pleasant of feelings, being able to see out of the windscreen was an endurance of pain, never mind trying to concentrate on keeping the vehicle moving in a staight line whilst towing a compressor unit through heavy snow. Thesecond back injury was in reality the first, myself a year later thinking I am better, I lifted something heavy, which came to be too much, and the same injury again, the same place etc.

Physiotherapy in the form of pilates speedily cured the pain, made my back stronger to the point of lifting, the relapse sent me back to pilates and still I do those exercises, the thing being with pilates, is the back exercises are done lying down, no danger of falling.

My yoga practice, my instructor is well informed of the back problems, and constructs exercises for me, where my wariness of the back is relaxed and as my confidence grows, I am able to complete the asanas, albeit in a modified fashion. It is with he, any asana that might cause a roblem, he commands me to move exactly as he says. The chap who is the instructor is very well versed in physiology, himself being a sports physiologist.



Vendaval -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 7:30:00 PM)

I am very glad that you have trained persons working with you to over come the injuries.



Aneirin -> RE: Yoga (9/19/2008 7:42:41 PM)

My back is a very sensitive part of me, slipped discs are not fun, I have to have complete trust in someone to be able to do anthing which might cause problems with that area.



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