How Were You Introduced to Yoga?
What made you start to explore yoga? Please share your introduction to the practice.
I started out taking some classes to help with repetitive motion problems I was having from my work. I had a craft production business making flower vases, oil lamps and candle holders from river stones and was running a diamond rock saw and a drill press almost every work day. It was wrecking havoc with my body. I tried all sorts of healing modalities with limited success. An acupuncturist and a chiropractor had suggested I try yoga to help. My wife at the time had already started some yoga classes and she gave me a gift certificate for valentine's day. Turns out it was the most loving gift I've probably ever received.
Well, to make a long story short, the yoga worked with my body, but I began to discover there was so much more to yoga than exercise and my life began to improve in other areas.
The yoga I practice is called Standing Wave Yoga. It was first shared by a yogi who moved to this area for a personal retreat after running a major yoga center in Hollywood, CA. The practice, as he laughingly describes it, "steals from everybody", but it came to him from his own exploration of his healing of mind, body and spirit.
I started out taking some classes to help with repetitive motion problems I was having from my work. I had a craft production business making flower vases, oil lamps and candle holders from river stones and was running a diamond rock saw and a drill press almost every work day. It was wrecking havoc with my body. I tried all sorts of healing modalities with limited success. An acupuncturist and a chiropractor had suggested I try yoga to help. My wife at the time had already started some yoga classes and she gave me a gift certificate for valentine's day. Turns out it was the most loving gift I've probably ever received.
Well, to make a long story short, the yoga worked with my body, but I began to discover there was so much more to yoga than exercise and my life began to improve in other areas.
The yoga I practice is called Standing Wave Yoga. It was first shared by a yogi who moved to this area for a personal retreat after running a major yoga center in Hollywood, CA. The practice, as he laughingly describes it, "steals from everybody", but it came to him from his own exploration of his healing of mind, body and spirit.
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Permalink Reply by Shayla aka YogaFruitGirl on -
Great to hear your inspiring story of recovery. Helps me stay positive!
I plan on tuning into the radio interview this weekend. Thx for letting us know about that.
Maybe one day we will practice yoga and feast on sweet fruit together! ;)
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Permalink Reply by Shayla aka YogaFruitGirl on
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All to beautiful, uplifting kirtan music! Jai Uttal, Jaya Lakshmi, Krishna Das, Ragani, Deva Premal...
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Permalink Reply by Uti on -
KD sends me right out there. Sometimes I get a mood to do a practice as a flow with KD chanting and I made a playlist from his cd's for a practice. I never know what the asanas will be until they show up.
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Permalink Reply by Shayla aka YogaFruitGirl on
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Sweatin it to yoga- LUV it. Try Ashtanga one day, bloomie, and share your experience :)
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Permalink Reply by micki on -
I was introduced to Yoga many many years ago in High School. We had a marvelous P.E. teacher who taught us the fundamentals of Kundalini Yoga (taught by Yogi Bhajan). I also had found a copy of Richard Hittleman's 28 day Yoga Plan and that got me going. Over the years I have both practiced on my own and by attending classes in different styles. Currently I have a home practice based on the Vinyasa style. I find Yoga and walking to be a great combination for all around health, and being a raw and living foods vegan completes the picture.
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Permalink Reply by Apryl Electra on -
Before going vegan in 2001, I was vegetarian for 8 years. The cheese and dairy (as well as the grains) made me very sickly and full of mucus. I had moved to Chicago in 1999 and started working out for the first time in my life (age 20) at Crunch. I started attending the yoga classes there but was too sick to breath normally and found it hard to participate. I felt like I failed and didn't start doing yoga again until I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia about a year or two later. I had moved back to Minneapolis and had discovered the health benefits of eating vegan. My Fibro specialist told me to stop lifting weights and start doing yoga. In 2004 I was certified as an instructor and studied mostly Jivamukti. Although I haven't been out to the Jivamukti Center in NYC to be certified in my favorite style, I am still in love with the change yoga has made in my life. I have taught off and on in studios and at home over the last 4 years. I try to practice in studios and at home as much as possible. I went raw in January 2007 and have been pursuing an 80/10/10 raw vegan diet since Autumn 2007. When I'm not drinking wine or eating high-fat raw my practice is rewarding and fulfilling. I had the best yoga experience of my life just yesterday morning. In a room full of chanting people I sat in lotus with hands at heart-center, eyes closed. I saw the most beautiful purples and bright blues which moved me to tears. Yoga has changed me from a negative, self-obsessed person to a positive person who contantly reminds myself that I am going to be alright and that I should be good to others. My Fibromyalgia, as well as multiple psycological disorders, are "cured" when eating 811rv. I believe that a natural way of eating goes hand-in-hand with yoga practice which both make a crazed, modern life manageable.
More good to come...
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Permalink Reply by Shayla aka YogaFruitGirl on
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Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing! :))
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Permalink Reply by Beth on -
I've always been an anxious person, and my friend suggested yoga to me about 10 years ago or so. I took a class and fell in love and have been practicing ever since.
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Permalink Reply by hajapapaya on -
I was 6 years old and brought a book for children with hatha-yoga-philosophy and exercises home from the liberary. There i read, that if you control your body with exercises, your mind will be free. I didnt exactly know what it ment "free mind", but i wanted to have one, so I started with yoga.
I did it nearly every day, for years, later not so often, but i read some yoga-philosophy, then, some indish gods and godesses occured to me and i started to read more yoga philosophy, did some Kundalini-Yoga, and now i read in the Bhagavad gita sometimes and in Yoga-Sutras from Patanjali and do exercises, depending on what effect i want to have on my body and mind.
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