Yoga teacher here

I was trained in an amazing studio in Montclair New Jersey- Jai Pure if you’ve ever been.. it is traditional and teachers are directly linked to the Krishnamachaya lineage.. I am now in Montana and all the yoga studios are just too… western. There is no dharma, there is no chanting, there is no breath work.

I’m having trouble staying true to the feeling of true yoga when I have no one to teach me in the spiritual realm. I’m also finding myself lacking creativity when planning classes.

Are there any good YouTube teachers that offer full classes? I want at least an hour but 75-90 min would be amazing. Full savasana at the end and challenging classes.. any suggestions?

Hi! I struggle with anything that involves lifting my legs to the side (leg lift in side plank for example). I get pain or muscle spasm around the hip joint when I try, so I'm guessing lack of strength/flexibility in my gluteus min or piriformis. Does anyone have any advice for poses or exercises to work on this? Thanks!

Ask questions/discuss asana.

How has it been for you? I have a regular hot yoga practice & just was diagnosed with ADHD. Trying to treat the ADHD without losing my hot yoga practice! Thanks!

update: I'm mostly worried about heart rate/blood pressure/temperature regulation

There’s a blackboard with a please don’t bring the phone into the yoga space.

There’s a sign on the door walking into the room, “Please don’t bring phones into the room”.

My sweet teacher that can play the bowls like no one’s business asks before her sound bath, “Please if you happens to bring your phone into the room, please make sure it is in the off so it doesn’t disrupt the space”.

Half way through someone’s phone goes off repeatedly and my teacher continues without missing a beat.

I didn’t feel an ounce of resentment.

No dagger eyes

Not really surprised

Hi guys. So I've noticed that whenever I do yoga, I have trouble falling asleep. So basically a normal session for me is like 30 minutes of beginner poses like these. No matter if I do it at the start of the day or before bed, I fall asleep like 4 hours (!!!) later than normal. I don't feel more energized, I don't feel excited like after a heavy workout - I feel normal. I know I shouldn't do workouts before sleep because of adrenaline, but as I said even if I do yoga right after waking up it still affects my sleep. And my sessions are pretty chill, nothing intense, no adrenaline.

I read somewhere that heart opening poses increase energy, and since I do a lot of those maybe that could be why. Maybe grounding poses could help to release the energy back to the Earth?

I haven't always had this problem, even though I do the same poses for many years now. This has been happening since a year. I have healed mentally a lot since then, done some psychedelics, trauma releases, lots of inner work. I no longer have depression or anxiety, I'm much happier overall. Maybe this is related, it has increased my energy?

I love yoga bc physically it feels great, however bc of this issue I'm often avoiding it.

So now I wonder if anyone else experiences this, what you do to solve it, and why this is happening?

My yellow PVC yoga mat was scratched by my cat, and the scratches now have black dirt marks. I’ve tried cleaning with detergent and soap powder, scrubbing hard for a long time, but the marks won’t budge. Does anyone have tips for removing stubborn dirt from scratches? Thanks!

Hi, if anyone’s ever purchased a manduka mat from Amazon, do you know if it’s eligible for their lifetime warranty?

Hi everyone! I am trying to get back into a regular at home practice for lots of reasons, but partly because I have a tight shoulder and neck (a mixture of knitting lots and years of anxiety tension). I'm getting frustrated with myself because I can never get my hands/arms away from my back when I try to do this pose - in mountain pose or in a forward fold. I can only get maybe 5cm away. Is there anything I can do to help? Are there any other complementary poses I can do that might help?

I mostly follow YWA videos, but have recently been doing my own flow depending on what feels right that day. I know I need to loosen up my shoulders (most of the time I'm unconsciously tense out of habit and have to think about relaxing them) but I don't know what to be consistent with. Any recommendations would be so appreciated!

I was leaving yoga today at the major gym chain where I go for classes. I overheard a 25-ish year old dude tell the woman who was next to him that she was "really good" (at her asanas).

I know his comment seems innocent but it is actually destructive. This woman was in the back, by the door. She wanted to just do the class and get out of there. Yes she was an expert practitioner so she may be well used to these kinds of "compliments" but even if she wasn't bothered, now all the beginners who overheard have just been told they are in fact being watched, and being watched by men in the room.

I was in a hurry so the exchange barely registered. I don't know how the woman reacted. Next time I hope I can keep my wits about me and tell that guy how wildly inappropriate his comment was.

What would you do in this situation?

Hi guys, I previously boxed, with huge amounts of weight training and sparring.

I now do a job where I stand for 9 hours a day and I’m in pain, mostly across my right rear rib cage, this is mainly from Imbalances….my right foot tends to be more supinated and left pronated, when standing for long periods and this has led to Imbalances.

I’ve also suffered damage to my wrists and both shoulders, one has a slap tear and another a ruptured supeaspinatus. Dispite this I can still do pull-ups and press-ups etc, as long as I carefully warm up.

I also cycle 5 hours per week.

I would to undertake a program that focuses on lengthening my body, aligning my spine and loosening my rib cage. I would like to start replacing my strength training days with yoga as I feel my body is perhaps starting to break down and focusing on being able to move better will serve me well for the future.

My question is, where can I get the best guides for these routines or who do you all recommend.

Hey, everyone!! So crow pose is my goal right now. What poses would be helpful to get ready for it?

i really want my belly button pierced!!

however, i am a yoga teacher and i practice several times a week so i’m constantly folding, stretching, bending.

i also run a couple times a week and do pilates, so i’m very active.

i’m wondering if all this activity, particularly the yoga, would cause my piercing to migrate / reject ? :(

i also don’t have the best track record with healing piercings - many of my ear piercings took a long time to heal and had issues.

i’ve got a month off from teaching yoga over december-january so thought i’d get the piercing then. but i would still like to be active over this period.

any advice would be helpful.

So, im pretty new to yoga. Only been practising for 2 weeks now, but daily. I don't really suffer from insomnia or anything, but the quality of my sleep has improved I think.

Anyway, would you say your ability to remember your dreams have gotten better after starting yoga?

I just wonder, cause I think its linked to yoga, that I remember my dreams better now. But they have been pretty anxious dreams, so I don't know if it's just something like, maybe I've been having these anxious dreams for a while now, but only now can remember them. Or that, while I've been on this journey of self healing, maybe that just has made me aware of some regrets that I have, and is causing these dreams.

This is a joke of course, but I personally HATE when lizard pose is included in long yin practices. It seems way too active to be a calming yin pose for me. I can’t release or relax in that pose and it gets uncomfortable after a couple minutes. What poses would you do instead of lizard?

Also, what are your favourite yin classes? I want looooong deep stretches with little muscular effort and few verbal interruptions so I can slip out of myself and into my breath. I have really enjoyed Devi Daly yoga but I’m open to anything. I have done so many great yin classes where the teacher just can’t stop talking and it ruins the experience for me. I’m not that keen on Yoga with Kassandra for yin but really enjoy her more active classes.

Hello, I am seeking any advice on how to treat tight calf muscles. I am actually doing a YTT and what I thought were tight hamstrings knock my confidence. During I workshop today I discovered that it is actually the calves that are the issue, and the hamstrings don't give me too much trouble. In another class recently, while doing a hamstring stretch a teacher pushed my foot back towards me and there was a sharp consistent pain in my calf.

I'm trying to understand what could be causing this, and brief research has given me some ideas of what to investigate, including the sciatic nerve, magnesium deficiency, misalignment in gait (all seem very plausible). I also experience a tug in my lower back during cobra and poses like trikonasana, if that could be related. Another post highlighted the influence of an unregulated nervous system - a decade ago I lost a loved one suddenly and I still have complicated grief. I first noticed the calf pain eight years ago.

Who should I be seeking help from? I've been recommended a physio or chiropractor, but potentially a PT, masseuse, etc. ? I'd imagine that I'd have seen a gradual improvement from the teacher training but it's been minimal.

Saw a few videos and pictures, I noticed there were sitting on each others chest, Forward and reverse,

Same with sitting on the back forward and reverse, sat near the face, closing there eyes meditating?

Is this some kind of sexual yoga? If not why these positions.

Hello.

My mother recently has been bombarding me with beliefs of quantum energies and stuff like that which her yoga has been teaching her. I'm all for whatever she wants to believe, however it sounds very dangerous because they give the belief that everything can be cured or be made better, even cancer.

In general, I do not like this, It sounds like a cult. Then again, I might be wrong considering I am studying to become a psychologist. I feel like overall she has been brain washed in a way to believe things that are untrue. It's true that yoga can help relax people, help them relieve stress, help manage pain etc, but I do not see how it would prevent chronic diseases. Manage? maybe due to the reduction of stress.

To add, she has this idea of quantum energies healing her body and that everything in the world is dictated from energies, and that there's empirical research backing it, however, the only quantum "stuff" I've been exposed to was very much just being strapped on a machine with a few wires and being electrocuted with some bogus results which showed me nothing.

What's your opinion on this?

Hello!

I’ve been using the Yoga app by DownDog for maybe a month now, and while generally it’s been great for me, every now and then I get INTENSE wrist pain whenever a longer plank hold or anything else that applies pressure to the wrist is asked of me.

I know my wrists aren’t broken or anything (they are hyper flexible, but my doctor just told me to crack them regularly to relieve pressure 🤷), but I the pain I get is so bad I basically have to stop the whole session. Is there any technique I can use to lesson the pressure on my wrist for moves like planks or down dog?

Hello, I am almost able to put my knees to the floor in butterfly pose, yet I cannot sit up straight in the pose at all. What muscle inflexibility is causing this? I can sit in firelog pose, although the top leg is somewhat raised... but perhaps this is too much. My hamstrings are very tight, yet in butter fly they are not in a stretched state. Maybe central glutes, as opposed to side glutes... Maybe pelvic floor? What stretches should I be working on? Also cannot sit up straight in Burmese posture etc

Thanks

I'm a new yogi. I do beginner vinyasa yoga, no sweating. I got a Lululemon mat and it's slippery even when I just have damp palms from holding positions like down dog and plank. I've researched other brands like Manduka, Jade, etc. but all of them have at least some reviews saying people slip.

Does anyone have tips in terms of the damp palms (like should I just get out of the pose and wipe my hands and the effected mat area with a towel? I don't want to do that.)? Or please recommend me a reasonably priced super grippy non-slip mat? I'm willing to spend no more than $90 CDN.

Idk if it's relevant here but similar topic.

I would like to do mantra but finding it to lazy do on my own. Any group you are aware or part of which I can join to do mantra in a group?

I’ve noticed my right shoulder is more flexible than my left. Any suggestions on how to get my left birds of paradise?

At the end of a seemingly basic/newbie session I could feel my body wanting to tense up and my jaw clench. I guess this is the way I’ve been living for 30+ years.

Give me some good vibes to keep building the habit.

Anyone else start like me? Find a difference?

I am beginner in the journey of yoga, please give me some advice to keep in mind while practising yoga, so that I can get maximum benefit from it.my GOAL is loosing weight and reversing pcod

I have Recently joined a yoga class and this is there schedule Monday: Pragya yog/ standing sequence.

Tuesday: Hatha yog/ Power yoga/ Arms/ core strengthening.

Wednesday: Backbending and forward bending/ leg stretching/ hip opening.

Thursday: Iyenger yoga with props like,(wheel, chair, bricks, rope, strap).

Friday: Ashtanga/ Vinyasa flow.

Saturday: Cleansing technique ( jal neti, rubber neti, kunjal kriya, tratak kriya, pranayam, meditation)/ Face yoga/ eye cleansing technique.

Total duration of the training: 1hour at evenings

is this good for weight loss, I am obese with pcod and gynaec has said no To GYM