I’m practicing yoga at a new studio now that we’ve moved to Puerto Rico. I will call the new studio - APR. I love my old yoga center back in Tennessee . ♥️🕉♥️ Tennessee will always be my forever “yoga home.” But the changes in practice structure here are giving me lots of self insights and realizations.
For instance At APR...they don’t wait. It’s more Ashtanga based. They don’t read the room and wait for folks to transition to the next posture. They don’t linger longer if someone is struggling with or slowly enjoying a posture. They just call each pose and begin counting the breath, “1...2....” You better transition from one move to another, and get in to the pose quickly, or else you will miss your chance! This is SO different from how I am accustomed to practicing and I think is good for me. 😳 I tend to be slower than most. I want things to feel right, sometimes to linger for an extra self timed breath or two, and I have a tendency to overthink. But I’m also motivated by FOMO, so hell in this new class... I move faster!
Also the poses are a fixed sequence...vs what I or the teacher feels like doing for each day. This is just like sticking to a SCHEDULE, which is something I’ve struggled to commit to with consistency for my whole life and am recently retrying, yet again, to integrate following a more fixed schedule into my new life here in PR. You just do the pose that’s next in the sequence, or do the task that is scheduled on your calendar, and you finish when the time is up and move to the next pose or task.
This change in practice style is serendipitous and awesome mirroring for the shift towards a calm scheduled life that I’m working for off the mat.
The first day I went through your pictures it was difficult to tell you have had kids, it's really awesome how Yoga has kept you so fit and in good shape, it is good for your heart too and can help overcome high blood pressure and hypertension.
Keep exercising, you can only get better and better. I have missed hearing from you a long while, please do well to check my recent posts, I made a handful of them.
Thanks @steemed-open
That's a serious pose! How long have you been practicing yoga? My sister used to teach yoga in Massachusetts but I don't think she had any students at that level. Mostly retirees and bored housewives in her classes.
Funny that you moved to a tropical paradise and decided to work on your discipline and scheduling! Most people go to the beach to get away from that! But I understand it. If that's where you're living your life it can't be all swimming, tanning, and pina coladas!
Yoga is good for anyone...bored housewives to dedicated pursuers of enlightenment. ✌🏾
It does sound odd that I’ve moved to paradise and NOW am trying to get organized. 😂 But shifting my ways from the chaotic cycle of neglect and then playing catch-up to calm, organized, scheduled priorities would be part of my version of paradise. It’s a shift. It I’m committed. Thanks for stopping by. :)
I have been wanting to try ashtanga for all of the reasons you listed above! I have been doing vinyassa for years now and feel that I'm not progressing with my postures because there is little consistency between practices and between postures. Ashtanga provides a wide variety of postures but also the consistency and discipline aspect of yoga as well.
I say this, though, after trying out Bikram again for the 3rd time and HATING IT. I went to about 8 classes and can't handle going back. The postures that they've selected simply don't feel beneficial to my body and my body never feels GOOD like it typically does after a yoga session. Have you tried Bikram?
I resisted ashtanga for all the reasons above. 😂 scheduling and routine always comfort me, but for some reason my ego resists and thinks it can do better. The classes I’ve found here are Ashtanga based, but it’s actualy a closely related sequence called “Rocket Yoga” founded by Larry Schultz.
I’ve tried Bikrim multiple times and really don’t like it either! I mean I did feel pretty good after the class, just to get out of the heat and that it was over. Maybe some
Sort of post trauma endorphins kick in to make you feel good afterwards... but to me the sequence feels incomplete. To only ever do 26 poses...? 🤔 like you, it’s not my thing.
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I think you will fit in quickly, you have all the physical components because you develop yourself at any time you want
This movement that you have made in it is difficult for a beginner
Your movement is correct 100%
Frankly you are skilled at yoga
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wow. a great sportsman. I really want to do yoga. I do not have enough time for this: / I have to work hard. but maybe one day I will settle down on the island! : D I want it from the heart. it would be very enjoyable to do yoga with you.
you're a very beautiful woman. kiss !
I hope this change be good for you great job then you're doing great Yoga is a life style we can clear our minds and our souls with it
beautiful body your so healthy looking nice i like you
I thank you for this photo impossible to calm me today with heart palpitations and pressure in the head and practicing this photo return to calm pleasant
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So perfect body... you have!!!
It's hard to make these moves. congratulations.
I plan on starting yoga. But practicing yoga in a studio won't match practicing it on the beach of PR. You live in an amazing place.
But if that the secret to have your body, I'l start today :)
Pictures wonderful Are these movements involved in the practice of yoga thing I am not accustomed to doing such movements All the greasy of yoga is to sit and close the eyes and breathe well
At the expense of what I have read yoga promotes mental ability and increases mental awareness of the body, and works to increase focus and improve the work of memory, and helps to increase self-acceptance and reduce aggression, and reduce the tension and depression. And ultimately lead to peace of mind and a happy life
kudos to you to open a new studio in Puerto Rico - battered as it was by the hurricanes recently! :) By the way, I wanted to let you know about that new user who shares the same passion as you and could need the support: @anahata :-) Yogis of the world, Unite!
Hello Cindy!
Happy to read your blog :-) my fiance (@tikatarot) will love this as well. She did yoga before, now stop - probably because she can't convince me to join her, hehe. Currently, she do meditation to almost everyday. I will share your blog to my fiance - i think it will inspire her to do yoga again.
Kudos! For that gorgeous pose ~ you're making it look like it's easy to do. I think i will need a century to perfect that pose like the way you do. Lol
You're amazing!!! When did you start doing yoga @steemed-open?
Thanks. 11 years I’ve practiced.
Wow! I should start doing Yoga too, your body rocks @steemed-open! are you also on a diet or vegan?
Awe thank you. I am drawn to healthy balanced foods, but I eat most anything I want and indulge in sugar, meat and wine. You are very lovely yourself. Your hair 🙌🏽
Thank you so much! :D
Have a wonderful weekend!
@steemed-open it is great to find out somebody with interests close to mine here on Steemit! Great post by the way and the posture... well done :) I am Julia, nice to meet you. Can not wait to read some of your other posts. Have a great and productive weekend!!!
do not know a great deal about yoga, but from what I see, there are many similarities to different "structures"... handling the shadow appears to be a tricky factor and every now and then it scares me to appearance down within the abyss of my black soul. C.G.Jung to my know-how encourages to face the darker factors, in place of denying or overlaying them. In Tarot the question comes up with "XI-force"...
wow. a excellent sportsman. I really want to do yoga. I do not have enough time for this: / I ought to paintings difficult. however perhaps in the future i will calm down at the island! : D I need it from the heart. it'd be very exciting to do yoga with you.
you're a very beautiful lady.
I plan on starting yoga. however training yoga in a studio might not fit training it on the seaside of PR. You live in an excellent place.
however if that the secret to have your frame, I'l begin these days :)
snap shots extremely good Are those movements concerned inside the exercise of yoga aspect i'm no longer conversant in doing such actions all the greasy of yoga is to take a seat and close the eyes and breathe nicely
on the cost of what i have read yoga promotes mental ability and will increase intellectual awareness of the body, and works to increase attention and enhance the work of memory, and enables to increase self-recognition and reduce aggression, and decrease the tension and melancholy. And in the long run result in peace of mind and a satisfied existence
It is the proof how you fit so... @steemed-open If you like swimmig, @sean-king should take your photo as my last post. You can check. How is it?
You have been practicing yoga for a long time, right? Your moves are great!
Puerto Rico and Yoga. 2 things I am very interested, I am an aerial yoga instructor when I have the extra time. I have considered relocation to Puerto Rico. How are things so far?
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Had to smile, when I read
I started aikido last April and with the really steep learning curve, I'm still on dust level. Thank god, in our dojo, its not like in your new yoga center. You always work with a partner and I am so thankful, they put up with my (lack of) speed.
I'm the same way, and at this point, I don't think I'm longing for a change of pace. I want to understand a move and do it right. Just like Da Vici said: first obtain accuracy, then speed comes by itself
When the energy flow is right, between the two partners, its like a laying "8", a constant give and take. Of course it gives for a good laugh of the others, when my patner "attacks" and I tell him to hold on and I have to gather up (?) first 😝
Interesting, how you take this new way as a positive challenge. I like a certain structure and I used to be really "fixed" in many things. Now, with my wife never doing anything the same way twice, even when she bakes a cake, I learn to loosen up quite a bit!
I really enjoyed your post ... wow.. I have often thought of doing yoga. This is good for me to see.