saph's slightly laid back january yoga 'challenge' (Page 4)

You find the power sequences is good stretch? Do you do it after workouts? Before or just depends?

What is your thought about the other two? 

I do the Flexibility sequence probably 3-4 times a week always after runs and other times when my legs feel tired/sore. I know it now and actually fast forward through some of her explaining. 

I always do the power sequence after a workout. I just feel as if I get a better stretch from it. I do like the flexibility sequence very much and try to do that one once a week. I have never done the first sequence so I can't offer an opinion about it. I am going to give it a try in the next couple weeks.

no spirit it's a LAIDBACK challenge, which negates any suckiness! you're doing what you can so you are succeeding...period.

not sure this will work in the states but if it does it is worth the 60 minutes:

good bbc programme

Okay, I'm about to order a yoga DVD from Amazon... so can you all recommend a good one for beginners?  (I've also heard good things about the Yoga for Athletes one, guess I might order that too.)

i'd recommend kimberly fowler's yoga for athletes but get it from her site. google yas yoga. for a more gentle one i use leah bracknell's yoga and you but you can't gte it from the us amazon site - sorry!

what sort of goals do you have for your yoga? that may affect what choices you make. maybe also look through this thread to see what others use/suggest.

good luck  

that is so funny about your lab....after my trainer ride yesterday I tried to do situps and pushups on the floor and both dogs went nuts.

So much for that

On another note...my PT (who I dearly love) told me that I really needed to be concentrating on "strength" for rehab...not just "stretching in yoga" AAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!

Why do people think yoga is just stretching?

because they have obviously never done kimberley's sweaty yoga!

any other tuesday updates? my crunch week starts next week as i start full-time work so it'll be cool to see how i fit my yoga in  

I just ordered Kimberly Fowler's Yoga For Athletes DVD, but they said it would take 5-7 days to process.   (And I'm really jealous of those of you who can go right to her studio!)

So I also ordered 2 DVD's from Amazon that have really high customer ratings -- "Kundalini Yoga For Beginners And Beyond", and "Kundalini Yoga - A Journey Through The Chakras", both by Ana Brett and Ravi Singh.

I'll report back with my impressions on them once I've tried them out a little.

my sweaty yoga had to come to england - be grateful for 5-7 days

looking forward to hearing about the other dvds. 

nice one what dvd you use? i did two lots of sun salutations today, one at 7.40am - wow! and then one when i got home to help me wind down my shoulder has been sore so no sweaty yoga atm but hoping to do leah yoga more fully tomorrow oh and my psychologist LOVES the fact i do yoga

so chuffed with myself for managing the 7.40am one - started a new job today and wanted to start off as i mean to go on

how is everybody else doing? 

did a full 40 minutes today of my leah dvd. was fun too hungover to manage anything else.

btw for spiritfire and those doing more 'spiritual' yoga - why do you do this version? what attracted you? as an ex-evangelical christian i am reasonably anti religion/spirituality and still have a very western mindset so find the more eastern practices a bit off putting. BUT would love to learn more and learn to appreciate why certain versions of yoga are practiced.

thanks  

I watched some of the Kundalini Yoga DVD I just bought, and followed along as best I could.  The first set was fairly simple and fun.  They had cutesy names for the exercises: one they called the "washing machine", another the "propeller".  All worked the spine in various ways, and emphasized a flow of movement with your breath, rather than maintaining certain poses.

I also peeked ahead at some future sets, though I didn't attempt them.  One was a motion from being seated (with legs forward and flat), up to bridge, then back again.  Another was a fluid motion from down-dog to plank to up-dog, then back to plank and down-dog, repeating as many times as you could.

It's too early for me to give my impressions about it -- I need to try more of it -- but it looks promising.

So how is everyone else faring?

I've been doing Yoga most days mostly at home. I do miss my class and the peace I get from that, but I need to work on what helps me. Today is my power yoga day but I'm getting a free massage from a friend in training that conflicts with the class so I'll do some at home again today.

I did get a new Yoga book yesterday....Yoga for Athletes...on first glance looks good and has a short DVD with warm up and cool down.  Great photos along with instructions and modifications. Much of the things in the Spinnerval Flexible Warrior is in the book which I haven't seen in other Yoga books.

At the end of the book it has problem areas and suggested Yoga work to do to help with those issues..which I think will be super helpful.