Yoga

Who does it? Which style do you practice?

I did Hatha for about six years as a teenager and am hoping to resume with twice-weekly Iyengar sessions which take place at my workplace. I hear Iyengar uses the same poses as Hatha but is more focused on precision and sequences of poses.

I still run through the sun salutation every once in a while as a form of moving meditation/mindfulness.

I practise Hatha yoga at home when my brain is in overdrive as it helps to shut my mind up.
I used to go to classes but I quit when a new teacher started and I could never keep up.

Admittedly I should do more.

I have this one issue with yoga...

I do some....don't know the name of it, got the poses out of a yoga book...

I do love the wardrobe women seem to feel obligated to wear while doing yoga....

I do salutation to the sun every few days, and some of the seated asana's to help with my seated meditation. I do like the sleeping abdominal pose (Supta Udarakarshansana), and anything else which I can fall asleep in!!

So no not really, but Ms Adder spent some time learning from a female disciple of Satyananda Saraswati so sometimes I'll join in with her, its good fun but I'm not very 'stretched' so its no competition unfortunately.

I love yoga
I completed teacher training for it about a year ago.
I'm going to be obnoxious and say that there aren't many forms I don't like. I've done several different ones but find most people are interested in learning Vinyasa, so that's what I teach. Of course, sometimes I'll sneak some Yin and Kundalini in with it

My own practice is based on my need at the time. My favorites are lunar salutations, back bends, and inversions. :silly:

I have a favorite Yoga…
It was hard at first!
And you have to have certain equipment to do it.

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But I think I got it down pretty good.

Lol Wes.

I do something of a personalised version of Vinyasa. In other words, Ive taken what I want from it and do what feels right for me. I tend to use it now days as a pre meditation practice, and to be more aware of how my body is responding to other forms of activity. Sort of like a check in to see whats going on.

I have a yoga question... perhaps someone here can answer it...

Whenever I take classes the teacher always makes us hold the poses for ages, but when I do videos or see others do it on youtube etc, everything is a lot more fluid and less stiff. Which is right? Or are both right?

Hi
I have a theory but I'm not sure this is totally correct .
I have been doing yoga for about 6 months and when I do them in a beginners class with a teacher, we stand in the poses for a while, and then there is a more advanced class, and there we do it with more of a flow but I think that the answer to your question is, that there are many different kinds of yoga, and that the different kinds are for different situations, and I think that the beginners class is more standing in a pose is to get all the posses right before you move on to the flowing yoga, but again it's only a theory. ;P