Any thought on Yoga or other practices?

[louisehay]

I practice yoga daily for sometime now. It takes 2 hours to finish my daily practice including 20 minutes meditation. I feel good physically and mentally. I am looking forward the days when I would become older age something like 60.

Also I ride bicycle very often and I love it.

Do you practice something? Taichi,Chigong,Karate,Judo, etc...

;)

[accuracy]

Yoga??

Give it a miss

It works against the grain.

As for bike riding, that's fine.

[ho1ogram]

Yoga??

Give it a miss

It works against the grain.


Dude, I think we need a bit more of an explanation than that. You have started another thread which simply quotes long passages denouncing yoga. You sound like a preacher trying to convert people to your way of life.

Tell me what is wrong with yoga. I want to here it from you, not be quoted long passages that someone else has written with links to half a dozen sites. Talk to us in your own words.

People can turn anything into a religion or make a practice an extreme part of their life, but I get the feeling that louisehay was simply saying that yoga works for her and/or she enjoys it. She started a thread to discuss the topic and because you don't agree with her views you go and start another thread to try and convert people to the way you think.

Get real. Use your own mind and enter into a dialogue if you disagree or have an alternative view point. Scouring your bookshelf or the internet for someone else's words to post here is rather lame. Starting a thread to simply diss someone else's practice is pathetic.

Why not tell us here, what you think in your own words
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I have tried yoga. I enjoyed it. I would like to get back into it. Sure there are people who take it very serioously but that doesn't make it evil. Worshiping God or Gods doesn't make someone holy or evil either. Things aint that black and white.

So tell us, how does it go against the grain? Maybe we'll learn something.

[karenmoore1979]

I do yoga pretty much everyday too - I really enjoy it. It is good exercise but I also find it very relaxing especially if followed by meditation.
I am not really sure why someone would suggest it is evil? I am very confused by this? Can anyone shed any light on this bizarre statement?:confused:

[infinitelove]

I practise yoga too and find the 'against the grain' comment ridiculous, especially as there is nothing to support this. Please don't tell me the Christian article from the other thread entitled the truth about yoga is meant to be evidence.

Accuracy bears a strong resemblence to true lilly from the other forum. Could they be one and the same?

[the mews]

I have just started yoga, doing it twice a week, still early yet but it is very relaxing, one of my teachers gave me this to look at, very intresting see what you all think:cool:

http://www.artofliving.org.uk/index.cfm
http://www.srisriayurveda.org.uk/

[jagalman]

I practice yoga daily for sometime now. It takes 2 hours to finish my daily practice including 20 minutes meditation. I feel good physically and mentally. I am looking forward the days when I would become older age something like 60.

Also I ride bicycle very often and I love it.

Do you practice something? Taichi,Chigong,Karate,Judo, etc...

;)


I find out that Jogging 10km's or more everyday in nature its better then any Yoga lesson!!
Jogging is a form of trotting or running at a slow or leisurely pace. The main intention is to increase fitness without stress. Jogging is a "high-impact" exercise that places strain on the body!!

Any kind of running - from a slow jog to an all-out sprint - improves the heart and lungs. Sprinting is also an anaerobic exercise (without utilising oxygen) and requires a great deal of power from the muscles; long-distance running is an aerobic activity (utilising oxygen) and requires a lot of muscular endurance.

Just get up and go for a run and feel the power of your body and soul!!

[tru3]

I practice yoga daily for sometime now. It takes 2 hours to finish my daily practice including 20 minutes meditation. I feel good physically and mentally. I am looking forward the days when I would become older age something like 60.

Also I ride bicycle very often and I love it.

Do you practice something? Taichi,Chigong,Karate,Judo, etc...

;)

chigong, tai chi (not so much these days).

as for yoga going against the grain, that's kind of the whole point isn't it? ;)

[friendsinthesky]

I have found Tibetan 5 Rites to be benefical for the mind and physical body, it does more than that BUT to get the full benefits ~ you must acquire discipline.

Link for info on rites and how to preform. (# I'm not familiar with this page and their alternative exercises) google for more info.
http://www.mkprojects.com/pf_TibetanRites.htm

[tru3]

I have found Tibetan 5 Rites to be benefical for the mind and physical body, it does more than that BUT to get the full benefits ~ you must acquire discipline.

Link for info on rites and how to preform. (# I'm not familiar with this page and their alternative exercises) google for more info.
http://www.mkprojects.com/pf_TibetanRites.htm

cool! i did that for a while. can't find my book now. it is invigorating! :)

i do mostly qi gong, various forms; i think there's at least 250 out there. i've always wanted to do pa kua (8 directions form, kind of like the i ching in motion), but i've never found anyone to teach it. to me, working with chi is like working with paper machie: you work with it and cultivate it in very thin layers. it does take some perserverance. it's very subtle, evanescant. it's like trying to look at something floating on your eyeball to me. i just trust it's there (chi follows the blood, not the nervous system), and have a pretty good visualization of the meridians. i work with the meridians far, far, more than the chakras. the chakras to me are filing cabinets; they hold and distribute different types of information. i realized pretty early on that if i wanted to keep the body healthy, i needed to work with the meridian points, especially on the front side of the body. they take a lot more time to open up than the ones on the back.

if you put your hands out in front of you as if holding a ball, close your eyes, relax, breathe from the belly a few and just relax your fingers, and let go of trying to do anything, in a couple of minutes you should feel it. it's energy, and energy follows attention.

i think what would help people as much as anything is just the awareness of breathing from the abdomen. the hawaiins called the first europeans "howlys", which doesn't mean "whitey", it means roughly "those who forget to breathe". :D that's one of the reasons i understand that huna is so powerful: it literally fuses the chi, through breathing and visualization, with mental imagery.

[phoenixchilde]

I have been practicing Chi Kung(qigong) and Tai Chi Chaun(taijiquan) for over 10 years now and soon will start teaching it. When I was young, I was a bit of a wimp. I couldn't play sports, and I had terrible balance. Once I started practicing Tai Chi Chaun, my balanced improved immensely, I found new sources of physical strength, and a constant desire to take care of my own physical well being.

As for Yoga, I have heard great things, especially about the Tantric Yoga if you know what I mean. ;) Cycling is also a great idea. The health and safety manager at my work is an avid cyclist, and he's in great shape. In fact, any form of exercise that you can get into the habit of is a great thing to get into. Physical and emotional well being are completely connected. You'll never be happy if you're not in shape.

Accuracy, I'm very puzzled and confused by your "against the grain comment." Please share your reasoning for this comment.

[eternal_spirit]

Get some dumbells and do some weight training or streching exerscise to tone up and loose any excess fat. Fast repetitons with litle weights is best for a woman. Then try some yoga when you're muscles can take more strain, unles you're allready toned then just do it!

[eternal_spirit]

Sex is a bit like yoga if you use different positions too(more fun)concentrate on you're breathing and then learn to control and delay the orgasm this works well for men and women. ;)

If a man can delay orgasm he can get a bigger erection and last longer.:) He may dribble a bit of sperm now and then but as long as he don't shoot it all you'll be fine, until the end or a rest between orgasms is good too:) ........ some call it kundalini yoga, but you don't need to go into all that stuff (kundalini yoga) unless you want to lol.