Kevin Practices Yoga in a Toga All Day! - Sally the Yoga Master!

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "My recent favorite is Bakasana/Crow pose:

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My aunt and my sister can both do that. Can you, Sally? I have a bad right wrist, so I tend to stay away from the poses that involve too much stress on it. I can hold downward dog because of the way my weight distributes, but planks and stuff are not good for it.

[Kevin]

sorry sals. just joshing ya. i'll leave the yoga thread now as i know nothing about it

[Phil]

BunWat wrote: "I did know that kona is sanskrit for angle.

Supta baddha konasana is one of my favorite poses. I find it super gigantically relaxing.

mmmmmmm
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That looks easy.

[Sally, la reina]

Pi, I think Shavasana is a pretty important part of any yoga practice. It is the yin to the yang of all the sweating and twisting and heart rate elevating. It allows muscles to realign and for things to sort of reset. Super fun, too.

And I enjoy crow more than ever because suddenly my core is strong and I can hold myself up with the strength of my muscles in my back and belly and no longer do I just heave my weight onto my arms and wrists.

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "Pi, I think Shavasana is a pretty important part of any yoga practice. It is the yin to the yang of all the sweating and twisting and heart rate elevating. It allows muscles to realign and for things to sort of reset. Super fun, too.

And I enjoy crow more than ever because suddenly my core is strong and I can hold myself up with the strength of my muscles in my back and belly and no longer do I just heave my weight onto my arms and wrists. "

Oh! So maybe I can get there too :)

And thanks for the answer regarding the hot yoga shavasana. My preconceptions about hot yoga come from my sister and also my hatred of heat.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Sarah Pi wrote: "I've never done that one. I like shavasana. I practice it a lot.
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I'll get to the end of my yoga routine on DVD, and once I get into corpse pose I have a hard time wanting to get up. Talk about relaxing...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sarah Pi wrote: "I've never done that one. I like shavasana. I practice it a lot.
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I hear Osama bin Laden is getting really good at this one.

[Heidi]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Sarah Pi wrote: "I've never done that one. I like shavasana. I practice it a lot.
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I hear Osama bin Laden is getting really good at this one."


Okay, that made me LOL.

[Sally, la reina]

Really? it made me hurt.

[Kevin]

i would do yoga maybe if i had someone to show me what the heck was going on

[Sally, la reina]

floorasana. Heh.

[Sarah]

There's a type of yoga practice that is a 90 minute guided relaxation. I felt like I had actually slept enough when it was done! It was wonderful.

[Sally, la reina]

K guys. Disclaimer: I'm going to get all mamby pamby on you, so back away if you don't like this sort of talk.

I just came out of a three and a half hour chakra lecture, so I'm feeling sort of etheral.
But here's what's on my mind.

Tonight as I was getting ready to leave for yoga I kept telling myself to bring a kombucha. Gotta bring a kombucha. Grab one from the garage before I go.
My mom was watching Leah tonight for bedtime (Sweeter works nights on Wednesday) for the first time she was going to go to sleep without me or without her dad so I was anxious and of course what do you think happened? I forgot the kombucha.

So I get to class, we spend an hour talking or so, and go to get on our mats and practice and this other gal, a very kind, sweet person I'm rather drawn towards holds out her opened but barely touched kombucha and offers it to me, saying she doesn't like the strawberry flavor. I immediately say I don't like that kind either, being the immediately agreeing fool that I am, rather than just taking the damn kombucha that I'd been missing and wanting for the whole first hour of class.
Then I spent the next three hours kicking myself for letting Tony take it when I could have been sipping on its slightly sweet slightly bitter goodness all evening.

Oh, and all of the colors they told us for the chakras don't align to what my book tells me here at home and so I'm annoyed.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

What is "mamby pamby"?

[Heidi]

:) I do know a bit about the chakras mamby pamby stuff, Sally.

[Sally, la reina]

About my post?

The fact that I'd been wanting a kombucha, someone I'm drawn to offered me one, I turned it down, and then spent the rest of the night feeling annoyed with myself.

I guess I don't need reiki after all.

[Heidi]

Oh. I thought you meant the chakras were mamby pamby. Oops.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I meant what is your definition of mamby pamby. I have heard of "namby pamby," I thought it meant wishy-washy.

[Kevin]

i understand about half (or less) of what is being said in this thread.

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Lobstergirl wrote: "What is "mamby pamby"?"

What is a kombucha? Also, how do you keep from dozing off during yoga?

Sincerely,

Your favorite Detroit knuckle-dragger

[Jim]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i understand about half (or less) of what is being said in this thread."

::Stands next to Kevin nodding my head::

[janine]

who's nodding your head?

[Kevin]

i just read that as:

"if you push up your chabaka's with a fundingo you always see a influx of your macarena"

[Jim]

Free your mind Sally - I did that and I'm still waiting for it to come back.

[Phil]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i just read that as:

"if you push up your chabaka's with a fundingo you always see a influx of your macarena""

Don't push chewbacca, he's a mean mo-fo!

[Sally, la reina]

You guys. I smell RIPE!

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::backs out of thread quickly::

[Sally, la reina]

I showered. Man, I feel alive. We had a big chakra lecture last night so I was totally focusing on that tonight during class, plus I'm getting really good at my Ujjayi breath, so I'm loving it.
But the instructor did some really tough poses, like balancing twists and flipped dogs that kind of threw my concentration. In a good way, I guess.

[Sally, la reina]

Yoga teacher training is coming to an end. What an amazing journey I've traveled.
I'm strong now, yo. So much stronger than I was last March. Yoga two or three times a day, every day, for nine weeks. Man alive.

[Sarah]

I didn't realize you were doing teacher training. Wait a second. So if you're going to a place without a studio, why not just start a class at a local rec center? Or church? Or school?

[Sally, la reina]

That was the plan, stan! This way, I can bring yoga with me wherever I go. :D

[Sarah]

You can be the pied yogi of Trinidad.
Instead of playing the pipes you can play some new age music.
And instead of leading the rats over the cliff, just lead them into shivasina and don't take them out of it. They'll mellow to death.

[Sally, la reina]

Yoga Mantra: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace" --Jimi Hendrix

[Sally, la reina]

Tomorrow's yoga class focus:

Crescents

Anjayasana

Locust and Standing Bow

Pigeon Bow

Savasana

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Pfft....

[Sally, la reina]

Oh, and some shooting star and toe twist sit ups

[Phil]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Pfft...."

Was that a queef?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

That was my vocal imitation of Sally's, yes.

[[deleted user]]

My husband tries to get me to do yoga. I'm so far gone, I can't even come close to doing any of it! Too embarrassing.