Do you do yoga on a regular basis?

Quit whining. Drink bourbon. Climb more.

Do you do yoga on a regular basis?

Yes
16
41%
No
23
59%
 
Total votes: 39

dipsi
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Post by dipsi »

charlie wrote:I'm with Bill on this. Yoga postures are just one of the 5 elements of a properly designed yoga practice. Yeah, asanas may help you gain flexibility but it's really been more of a spiritual practice than physical for me. If you're just thinking it's gonna get you fitter then you may be missing the purpose.

The 5 points of the Sivananda training program, what I've always patterned my practice after are...

Proper Exercise
Proper Breathing
Proper Relaxation
Proper Diet
Positive Thinking and Meditation

The Proper Exercise is the easiest part in my experience and really doesn't work nearly as well unless coupled with equal focus on breathing and relaxation. Stretch on the floor if your goals are simply physical, yoga is more than that and may not be the most efficient way to get you where you want to be.

Then again, if what you are doing helps then roll with it!
Couldn't have said it any better, Charlie. Namaste....
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caribe
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I am amazed by the results of the poll!! 2 out of 5 climbers do, 3 out of five climbers don't. Yoga is not really a southern OH, KY, northern TN thing, so the odds are against it. I would have suspected that the majority have not tried yoga and that some of the negative respondents are portly old men who do only trad. I wonder what fraction of young, lithe, gracile gibbons do yoga? And oh, yeah . . . ah . . . . . . right . . . . . namaste.
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they used to offer yoga at the y that my wife and i go to. i tok it for about 9 or 10 weeks and really though it was pretty cool. I didnt do more of it once the class stopped though and miss it. it helped me avoid injuries like i get now.
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KD wrote:they used to offer yoga at the y that my wife and i go to. i tok it for about 9 or 10 weeks and really though it was pretty cool. I didnt do more of it once the class stopped though and miss it. it helped me avoid injuries like i get now.
I'll never forget when Diggum and I were practicing yoga, and you told me you once dated adho mukha savasana!

Bwa ha!
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dipsi wrote:
KD wrote:they used to offer yoga at the y that my wife and i go to. i tok it for about 9 or 10 weeks and really though it was pretty cool. I didnt do more of it once the class stopped though and miss it. it helped me avoid injuries like i get now.
I'll never forget when Diggum and I were practicing yoga, and you told me you once dated adho mukha savasana!

Bwa ha!
yeah she was HOT! :)
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caribe wrote:I am amazed by the results of the poll!! 2 out of 5 climbers do, 3 out of five climbers don't. Yoga is not really a southern OH, KY, northern TN thing, so the odds are against it. I would have suspected that the majority have not tried yoga and that some of the negative respondents are portly old men who do only trad. I wonder what fraction of young, lithe, gracile gibbons do yoga? And oh, yeah . . . ah . . . . . . right . . . . . namaste.
well, aren't we stereotyping folks.
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caribe
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Sorry Pigs, next time I will only type with one hand.
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caribe wrote:...young, lithe, gracile gibbon...
thank you for this wonderful description of myself.
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I think I fall into the portly old men who only do sodomy clause
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Doing yoga is akin to playing checkers to get better at chess...
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