Recently, my favorite yoga studio closed down and it was my sanctuary. Since then, my favorite yoga teacher is also leaving yoga teaching, and is pursuing corporate wellness as her career. I am sad cause I started doing yoga while I was in the midst of a very bad period of my life. Just wondering, where do you see the future of yoga going? More yoga sculpt? Or will more people transition into Pilates?

I hope this makes sense, but I have a membership to a studio and they happen to have two locations within 10 minutes of each other. One of the instructors I really really like, her classes are always amazing and probably one of the best I’ve ever taken. She essentially teaches almost every day of the week, except Monday and Tuesday. My question is, is it weird for me to go to her classes for the rest of the week even if they’re at different location (within the same studio)? I just don’t want to seem creepy but genuinely her classes are amazing lol😭

EDIT: thank you everyone!! This is my first time with a membership so I’m not sure what the proper etiquette are:) I just wanted to confirm.

It's like I've become hyper aware of every ache, stiffness, tensed muscle in my body. Bad posture, although I slip back into it occasionally, FEELS uncomfortable and like I'm damaging myself.

When I wake up and don't do some form of stretching, I literally feel it in the background during the day. I move more sluggish, heavy things feel heavier, I feel things pulling in my body.

I'm only approaching 30 and I don't even do intense physical work at this moment and my bed is quite comfortable. I think I've just gotten so into the habit of feeling my body that I cant NOT listen. Sometimes life gets busy and I skip stretching for a bit and it's like not only do I have to restart the daily maintenance practice, but I also have to undo the tension that accumulated.

It makes perfect sense why so many people have all types of back pain especially office workers. I literally cannot imagine working full-time at a desk and not stretching. I think I would be too stuff to move after a week! Don't even get me started on the people who do weight training totally cold, no warming up and finish without stretching. Just thinking about it makes my body ache!

Is it just me or do you guys relate?

I’ve been practicing aerial yoga for 2 years now, and I’m planning to open my own aerial yoga studio. However, I’m having a hard time finding certified aerial yoga instructors.
Are there any Facebook groups or communities you’d recommend where I can look for qualified teachers? Any leads would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello! What's everyone's favorite online yin instructors?

Thanks!

hi! i'm a baby yoga teacher looking for a remote yoga teaching job. over the summer i completed my 200 ryt and i currently teach as one of the rotating instructors at my college's power yoga club. i absolutely love teaching and practicing vinyasa yoga, and want to increase my teaching experience. im a full-time college student without a car on campus, so i need to look for a teaching position that is mainly online. does anyone know of any online yoga teacher positions?

I feel so stupid while everyone knows what they’re doing. Why is yoga so hard. I like it and I try but it’s really hard :(

I have had really bad posture for years, to the point where people notice and occasionally comment on it. I would love to change it, and I’m interested in yoga. I only have the time to do one class per week though, and I have a job where I sit kind of slumped over all day. If I were to take one yoga class per week and do 10 minute posture stretches each day, would that be enough to eventually straighten my posture? I would love some tips if you have them!

I've practiced yoga on and off for ~11 years but kept injuring myself since I didn't know I was extremely hypermobile. Now I've got a grip on that and am practicing consistently 4-5x a week (vinyasa, mostly heated). I definitely notice improvement in endurance, flexibility etc.

My question is - without specific instruction during class, how do you know how to improve? How do you get to a point where you're really floating to top of mat, or doing handstand during vinyasa, or getting into other advanced poses, without someone telling you when to work on those and how to incorporate into your practice?

I don't think I'm wording this right but I hope this makes sense. I know there are videos, books, etc. but I don't know which ones to watch or what to focus on right now because I'm not a trained instructor, you know? I feel like if all I ever did was what was instructed in class, I would never even get to attempt side crow or running man or anything like that. Im not on IG much but just started following a "yoga influencer" I guess and saw her do things I've never seen before! So how do you learn to do a pose if you don't know it exists?

Just so much to learn and I don't know where to start! I know it's a lifelong process but I just want to create good habits.

Have been working on transition from wild thing to wheel for a while now, and always get tripped up with changing the direction of my hands. Any changes I can make? When doing this transition, do both hands usually find the same placement?

I love extreme mat twists. But I can't remember the ones I learned from an instructor at West Valley College near San Jose. She taught there around 2012. In hopes that she published a video, I tried to find her name and couldn't.

Which mat twists take it a little bit further? I've got yoga cards and a book, but I haven't found the pretzels I'm seeking. Can you recommend extensive twists. They were warm up, not really part of a flow.

Also, if anyone knows who that instructor was,- if she made a video routine, I need it.

Thanks

I weight lift, run, and do hiit classes often. As I aged I started waking up in pain with a lot of stiffness and my light stretching doesn’t cut it anymore.

I took like 5 yoga classes and now I don’t wake up with extreme tightness to where it’s hard to walk anymore.

I know this is obvious, but yogas pretty cool. I bought a mat and all that. Will be going 3x a week on rest days now.

Good morning everybody!

So this Is a request.

I already meditate, practice japa, do asanas, pranayama.. Everything. I understand Yoga Sadhana and I know how and why It works. Not a mistery for me anymore since a few years. Therefore my question/request Is specific.

While doing my practice and gradually enhancing It I came to realize how effective Is to me mantra chanting. I usually pair It with mudras and energetically speaking... the effect is astounding. To this day, after years of practice my Heart and soul are filled with gratitude for the fact there exist such a powerful instrument.

Well, the point Is that I discovered that beej mantras, being essential, have a specific impact on your Energy. Also a specific beej mantra paired to a specific, resonant mudra can be extremely precise to obtain the state you are looking for. So the question Is: Is there some kind of manual that breaks down from roots to leaves the science of Mantras?

The desire for this appeared in me when I discovered that there aren't Just beej mantras for single chakras, but there are beej mantras like Klim, Hrim, Krim etc.

Also what I'm looking for Is for a way to create mantras by myself, without the Need to search on websites or books. Also, if the book (or books!) talks about Number of repetitions, breath and mudras, that would be awesome, but the priority Is the structure of mantra science.

Thank you very much :)

I’m travelling the UK (London, Manchester, edinborough, Cornwall) Ireland (Culdaff) Germany (Berlin, Munich), Italy (Rome) and a few other places next year September - October, I’m from New Zealand and wanting recommendations for cool yoga places to potentially stop by. Any suggestions? I like more spiritual and traditional yoga, big fan of yin and haven’t done ashtanga but very interested in it. Mainly do Vinyasa, I like hot yoga for the meditative aspects.

Hi,
Can I do restorative yoga with open eyes. I am not talking about yin yoga but restorative yoga specifically . Also if one leaves doing yoga after 5-6 years, can it lead to any side effects?

Where should I start if my goal is to improve life energy, mental clarity, calmness and overall wellbeing through traditional yoga?

I'm interested in learning about Prana, Pranayama, Kriya Yoga, Kundalini, chakras, nadis, Dhyana and Samadhi. I want to understand how these practices fit together and, more importantly, which practices I should actually learn and practise.

My goals are to improve physical and mental energy, feel more present and alive, develop inner calm, and support my overall health and recovery.

For those with substantial experience in traditional yoga: Which lineage or system would you recommend studying, and in what order?

Are there particular teachers, YouTube channels, books or structured programmes you'd recommend for learning both the theory and practical techniques properly?

I'd love to see if there's videos on YouTube that's accurate. Mostly it's just people stretching and doing pilates so it's hard to navigate.

Hello everyone! For PT they are recommending that I do inversions with a headstand bench. I tried it during my session today and it was amazing. The bench they had there had handles. I feel like I’ve seen people talk about FeetUp, but it doesn’t have handles and the rectangular legs look awkward to grip onto. It’s also expensive haha. Does anyone have one that they recommend?

Edit: I ended up ordering FeetUp because it seems like it’s on sale and I found a promo code to use on top of it. We’ll see how it goes!

Anybody here heard of Svenja Berndt? I love her flows I see on Instagram and was wondering if anyone ever tried her programs.

I am also a huge fan of Dylan Werner and his class styles so I’m curious if anyone out there is similar with me :)

I'm always looking for a new challenge. I enjoy The Glow Method and Breathe and Flo on Youtube.

My sweet and generous friend gifted me a Manduka PRO for my birthday.

I used my table at work for the sea salt scrub, which quickly become a giant zen garden salt play table. Every person who came into my room could not keep their hands off my mat.

My office mate asked me how often I have to exfoliate my mat with salt. I apologized for taking up the table and said hopefully not for several months.

“No, I mean when can we play in the salt again?”

long story short, I'm disabled but some days are better than others. I try to do a workout (mostly just strength based pt) with light weights (only 2 lbs) + resistance bands. but it's pretty hard to do that consistently.

I've got 3 connective tissue disorders though, so maintaining some muscle tone (can just be light/functional strength) is extremely important, I don't need to be extremely fit or toned by any means (I'm really just trying to preserve health and conserve as much of my limited energy in the process).

walking and yoga seem to be the two things I can reliably do almost everyday for the past several years and yoga really helps my pain, so I'm curious if this can be enough (maybe not ideal, but just enough?) I was going through this sub and found a study on yoga and bone density, but I haven't had energy to read through that and see how reliable it is, so I'd also be interested if anyone had any info on yoga+maintaining bone density too

also most forms of yoga (including power yoga) are in the cards for me except aerial and hot yoga if that changes anything