Who still remembers a few years ago when this company, Teeki, scammed customers? They took money for all the orders but never shipped the products. On top of that, they sold numerous gift cards and kept lying to customers, claiming they would resume operations soon, fulfill all the pending orders, and allow gift card holders to use their cards. Yet, all these promises were never fulfilled over the years.

Now, there’s another company on the market called Teeki Boutique, selling nothing but Teeki leggings. When questioned, they keep insisting they are not Teeki. So, my question is: where are your products coming from?

It is obvious that they have started operating under a different name But telling people that they have nothing to do with teeki; apparently they are clearly the same company. Those people simply changed name and restarted, trying to erase all the money they scammed from customers in the past. This behavior is highly unethical, and their business will never succeed. Just be aware before you place order.

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to inform you of my rare book and paper business, Peek-a-Book Rare Books & Ephemera. It is, as far as I'm aware, the only South Asian American-owned rare book business and it is also, as far as I know, the only specialist in South Asian American historical documents. We operate by mail-order catalogs, direct offers, and we are hoping to make some inroads through social media. Our goal is to show that South Asian American historical documents have just as much inherent interest as documents by East Asian Americans and African Americans. To that end, we catalog all of our items extensively, and are happy to direct readers to resources where they can learn more.

If you are interested, you can access my site here: Peek-a-Book Rare Books & Ephemera. Feel free to drop me a line on reddit or at the email listed on my contact page. I am working on optimizing my site's view-ability on phones, but for now, everyone can find downloadable pdfs of my catalogs on the "Catalogs" page.

Hope this gives rise to some fruitful discussions!

Over the last couple months I have been experiencing slowly worsening neck pain on the right side of my neck. At times, I can feel it connects to tight muscles and lesser pain in the same shoulder. It doesn’t seem related to my yoga routine as timing and asanas added more recently don’t really relate to that area. Muscles and tendons feel especially tight on just that side and that side of the rear of my neck. Any suggestions for working this area loose gently?

Every time I am in child’s pose for more than a few breathes, my feet start to cramp. Is there anything I can do or change the way I’m positioning my body??

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Have been practicing yoga for around 2 years now twice a week. I am really struggling with hip tightness and after this time still cannot squat parallel, manage a Yogi squat without tiptoes etc
Will this get better with more practice? I know that it is having an effect on my hips as often get very sore hips after practice and in yin become very aware of tension here.

Started daily yoga as the stiffest person alive. No flexibility, zero experience.

Sleep improved drastically within a week no more insomnia. My terrible desk-job back pain disappeared completely. Brain fog lifted and my work focus sharpened significantly. Best part? Zero judgment at the studio despite being obviously new.

Just doing basic vinyasa and hatha with a cheap mat and old workout clothes. If you're debating starting, it's not just about touching your toes the real changes happen where you least expect them.

Hi /r/yoga,

44M. I practiced yoga for the first time this past Saturday. It was a "morning flow" class and I really enjoyed it; just a few people at 9am and a great vibe.

I've worked out 6-8 hours a week for the last 4 years but that's been 100% walking. In the last couple of months I've had to skim a little off my walks and incorporate warm ups and strength training with a trainer to deal with levoscoliosis and middle back pain. That's been slowly getting better and that's when I decided yoga would be a great opportunity to expand my mind and body further.

I tend to overdo things so I didn't know if I should just stick with the Saturday morning studio sessions for now, or if I find myself with extra time at home to also check out something like Yoga with Adrienne on YouTube that my friend raves about (although she hasn't practiced yoga herself for years but that's a whole other topic). Or could that be detrimental going two different ways with me just beginning?

I have a trainer for strength training once a week and she's a friend that sees me at a friend price. I don't do well with knowing how to work my body without hands-on instruction because I'm paranoid I'll screw up and injure myself, or flatly not know what I'm supposed to be doing if I watch a video, but it seems like I would have to go out of my way to hurt myself with a yoga beginner class.

Thank you for any advice!

Hi there

I've only been practicing for a little bit, but I deeply enjoy it and want to continue. I'm having one small issue - my feel are freezing. I'm wearing socks, but my feet are so cold my toes are curling in and I have to stop practicing. Since it's just my feet, I don't really want to go the route of something like a heater. Has anyone else dealt with this?

I just got a yoga inversion bench (yay black Friday sale) but I can't find any YouTube channels using one regularly in practice. Any leads? Thank you

I have some on again/off again tightness in my right glute and hamstring. Sometimes into my lower back on that side, but the back discomfort is pretty minimal. Sometimes it seems that this tightness gets worse after yoga classes, especially after doing backbends and cobra or upwards dog. Might there be a connection between backbends in yoga and the hamstring issues? If so any suggestions for how to address?

Doing yoga at home again has been great. It gives me an opportunity to work on breathing and visualization that I can’t get in a class. It also lets me adjust my pace and focus on areas that work for me, without distractions or ego involved. 💕

Hi there beautiful people!

So I (27 F) am trying to lose a substantial amount of weight. Around 30-35 kgs to be exact. I recently started weight lifting for twice a week, and i'm having a very hard time with my energy levels afterwards since i'm already in an aggressive calorie deficit. I feel extremely fatigued and unable to do anything else. I can't do cardio aside from walking either because of my asthma.

So i was thinking of switching to yoga three times a week as my main form of physical activity instead. I have practiced yoga on and off, never for weightloss reasons, but because i loved it and it made me feel great.

This time around i have concerns about losing muscle mass. That's why i started resistance training in the first place. I was wondering if yoga can help me build/maintain muscle while I'm losing weight, or if i should figure out something else in addition.

I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thank you!

Hi all. I sprained my left wrist sometime in April in a gym related incident. Before that I’ve kept up with a consistent practice of weight training & yoga, but now I realize I can’t do more than gentle yoga stretches. I haven’t done a full class in a while and find myself out of breath even when attempting. Meanwhile my wrist is better but certain poses still trigger discomfort. What are some practical guidance to regain some strength without straining? Or if there are any specific things I can do as rehab?

Any poses that are particularly good for disc space narrowing here?

Sometime ago, I started WFH, and instead of sitting on my chair for long hours again, I decided to do all my work in a vajarasana position, to keep myself from slacking off anf lazing away and to keep my posture in check.

Now it has become my default sitting position, my posture has tremendously improved with it over the past few years. I wanted to ask, is it too bad to sit like this in the long term? Will it damage my knees? Usually they stay cushioned while I sit. Vajrasana has also massively affected my digestion and made it 10 times better than before, so I'm not very keen to change my position back to what it was and go in the office chair.

Is it healthy to hold vajrasana for long hours? What do you think?

So, about ten years ago, I went to a Yoga place that just a person talking and a group of people listening. I don't even remember the type of Yoga it was called. I just remember that it was a free inteoductory session.

Thing is, at the end, while I was in my head thinking that this Yogi was using ideas from various philosophers without giving them credit, everyone sitting in the big circle faded from my attention, my vision narrowed on her face, her body also faded from my attention, and her face lit up with intense light.

I never did Yoga since.

Can someone tell me what happened if they know for sure?

Hello!

F38, been doing yoga (vinyasa, power yoga, ashtanga etc) for several years on a regular basis. Since a few months i started to do yoga more frequently, 5 times per week. However, since then every morning when i wake up i feel so stiff, inflexible, like a piece of wood!! For example i can barely touch my feet on forward fold while in the evenings i can place my whole hand on the floor… why do you think it’s like this?

I also noticed that this did not happen while in a very warm and humid country while once back home (north europe) i again got very stiff. Any views would be much appreciated!

Hi,

I’ve been wanting to visit an ashram in Rishikesh for a while now. Looking for ashram recommendations. Any ashrams that aren’t heavily commercialized and have a good yoga retreat?

Looking forward for some recommendations! Thank you.

Or from any of the previous challenges. If so, how many total minutes did you practice during the month? I was wondering whether the rewards were sent randomly or to winners in certain categories.

I've been doing yoga pretty consistently for about 15 years now. Went online for pandemic and then the instructor I love "opened" an online studio. She's local but doesn't do in-person classes. I love this instructor but my yoga practice is pretty stagnant.

It's very convenient to do yoga at home but I'm not very motivated to do it. Plus, there's not really any instruction. She's got an arc to her classes and she has her favorite flows. I used to love the predictability but now I'm a bit bored. I love this teacher but I'm wondering if it's time to move on. Thoughts?

I go to a studio that as a practice, does not generally do hands on adjustments. I love everything about the studio except this - I really feel like I thrive under some physical guidance. Plus, I have really long limbs so modifications are extraordinarily helpful!

Would it be strange if I went up to the instructors before class and let them know I am open to it? I also am worried about being the only person getting a hands on assist, lol.

Before I start this, I want to say that this was NOT on the teacher. She was lovely, but the class I took was obviously not for me.

I usually go once a week, Friday nights, to a beginner community class. With all of the holiday festivities, Friday blew right past me and I missed it. It's been a few weeks because of busy weekends, so I REALLY wanted to try and squeeze in a class today so I wasn't going a whole month without a class

I'm so sad I went. I read the description, I've taken classes like it before that were hard, but this was too much. I've taken level 1/2 classes before in a pinch and done okay with them. Yes, I struggled sometimes, but generally I was able to keep up with everybody else in the class. Today just felt like I was 10 steps behind everybody else. I was having a hard time with directions today. It was like my brain didn't want to work.

To make matters worse, I don't like being touched or looked at in class. I get to my usual class a half hour early so that I can be in the back corner. The instructor kept coming back to the back row, correcting my poses, leading the class directly next to me, so it felt like every eye in the room was on me. I know that my poses were incorrect. I was struggling and unable to move my body in some of the ways she was asking us to move.

The last time that she came and stood next to me and directed the class, I stepped out. I was feeling so embarrassed that I couldn't stand anyone looking at me any longer. I sat in the hall during the last flow until I felt like they had moved on to the hip openers. I ended up going to the bathroom and calling my husband, almost in tears because I was so frustrated.

I think the problem was it was so different from my usual classes and there were poses that I had never even attempted or heard of. The instructor was breezing through them and it usually takes me a time or two to hear the direction and see the pose before I can actually do it myself. The usual instructor I see gives very detailed directions and models the poses the entire class. I have a lot of problems with flexibility, so I'm not able to do many poses properly, I just do them to the best of my ability. It was like I had a magnet on my back to this lady because she would not leave me alone.

I really don't know what I'm looking for in posting this here. Maybe someone to tell me the next class will be better? Maybe that it takes years to become flexible and not 9 months of once a week classes? I don't know, but I left feeling so defeated and ashamed today. During the final minutes of meditation, all I could think of was how terrible I did instead of how proud I usually feel at the end of class.

So I'm an introvert who no one knows who somehow got a job as a yoga teacher at a studio, but I'm having a super hard time getting anyone to come. I try to social media and local page advertise, but I'm not influencer lol. Any tips?