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pole and yoga
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I love yoga. It is awesome and a great workout that will be very beneficial in combination with pole fitness. Rodney Yee has great DVD’s out which are sold at Target and Wal Mart.
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I love yoga. It is awesome and a great workout that will be very beneficial in combination with pole fitness. Rodney Yee has great DVD’s out which are sold at Target and Wal Mart.
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I love yoga. It is awesome and a great workout that will be very beneficial in combination with pole fitness. Rodney Yee has great DVD’s out which are sold at Target and Wal Mart.
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Omg how did that post 4 times??? Sorry…
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lmao donna, its fine! i do that sometimes too lol, thanks for ur reply! 🙂
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Love love love Yoga!
I'm a firm believer that Yoga and Poling go hand in hand, especially if you're stretching for splits or anything along those lines.
A fantastic teacher is worth their weight in gold, but working on your own at home has many benefits too. You can look up detailed explanations of each pose online and formulate your own sequence.
Yoga Journal online ( http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/finder/browse_categories ) allows your to sign up for free and build your own sequences + store them. I've built sequences for specific days of the week (one for Mon, one for Wed, one for Fri) and printed them out so that I have them on hand in case i have a spare 30mins – 1 hour to scoot in a home session.
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awesome!! thank u!! 🙂
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I been practicing abit of ypga moves lately, it fits in great with pole fitness!
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yoga!
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🙂 🙂
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i have been studying yoga for quite some time now. i started out with videos. which is always good to follow bc most of the time when u do it on your own we get lazy an dont wanna lay there an be still for a couple minutes to relax. ( not that u need to) but now i have picked my favorite moves out of every yoga, stretching dvd i have done even non yoga dvds like aletheas an felix's stretching dvds. and i kinda make my own routine now. There are alot of moves to choose from so its always good to do different ones here and there. it does feel great and it def makes a big difference in pole performances.. and POSTURE as well. =)
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sweet myztik!!!
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Since I'm a latecomer to the topic, most of what I've tried has been mentioned. Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Baron Baptiste, YogaJournal, YogaToday, Alethea and Felix are all superior teachers for the home dvd education.
I also really enjoy the P90X Yoga DVD for intense workouts and showing guys that yoga is hard. WDNY also has a lot of yoga in their bellydance dvds. http://www.thesecretsofyoga.com has some informative articles about many of the different styles out there.
Now please forgive me for this, I thought about putting it in a blog, but it is in direct reponse to this topic so please bear with me:
The chanting or spiritual aspect of yoga can be off-putting and strange especially if you don't expect or understand it in the most literal sense. To call it silly, as someone stated, can however, be offensive to some people. It is matter of respect to other's practices and cultivating a sense awareness instead of ignorance.
As I said though, it can be a total WTF moment for the unprepared and I know that feeling intimately. My first yoga DVD/practice was Ana Brett & Ravi Singh – following unknowingly into the hardcore spiritual-style Kundalini Yoga. I just watched in shock and confusion. Which is saying a lot because I'm the "meditative" type but I don't like being bombarded with something unfamiliar just as much as the next person. I had a subtle repeat of the experience in subsequent DVDs like Shiva Rea's.
My first issue with the chanting is the lack of translations. It is not good practice to just adopt spiritual components into one's life without even having a clue what is being said. Most people aren't apt to and I find it rude that anyone would ever expect someone else to. The packaged New Age fluff explains nothing in most cases and makes me push the chapter-skip/ff button with a vengeance.
I've heard it argued by yogis that you don't need to know how it works for it to work; just like you don't need to know how a car works for you to use it successfully. I do not accept this philosophy because people who know nothing about cars eventually end up in need of help from someone who knows more and/or getting ripped off because of their ignorance. The same premise applies to the chanting and spiritual.
So to get off the soapbox and wrap this up, let me just clarify what I have come to understand about the chanting in yoga.
1. It works on the principle of resonance and brain wave entrainment. It is just like some software out there that people use binaural beats/frequencies to relax with. The concept is explained in thousands of places all over the net but covered with reasonable intelligence here: http://www.healingsounds.com/articles/sonic-entrainment.asp
2. It does not have to be in Sanskrit language. You could chant whatever you want really. But different sounds will create different results for different people. Just like all music does. There are too many variables to say this or that one sound is what someone needs to relax or whatever. The only rule is that 'like attracts like' – just like in normal, everyday speech.
3. It can be extremely helpful to yoga and the mental-emotional aspects of life if applied within reason. By reason, I mean to say, you should know what you are chanting and why. It is not nessecary to make more out of it than this unless you choose to study further into it.
4. It is not absolutely necessary to the yoga practice.
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im glad its not necessary, i wud feel very strange chanting i think! lol
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LOL, I feel ya on that. Think of it like a song. I think I might just sing "I feel happy" over and over in my head and that will get the same results. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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