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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!

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.

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!

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.

caribe wrote:...young, lithe, gracile gibbon...