A Bit About Myself
A little bit about myself and my history with yoga. I'm 37 years old. When I was a young child I used to do gymnastics and Karate, and not to brag, I was really good at those sports. I also, would enjoy stretching my body, and often my parents would find me on my back balancing a chair on my feet! I enjoyed the concentration and the fact that it took my mind off my worries (I worried a lot as a child, and had a lot of anxiety, my first panic attack being at the age of five!!).
I did not hear of yoga until I was in college, and one of my friends gave a speech about yoga and showed us a few moves. From that day I was hooked. So I bought books and flashcards on yoga asana's (yoga positions), and went to a few yoga courses.
Life took over, and yoga was put on hold, I started practicing again in my early thirties, not seriously, but once a week or so.
Two years ago I started to get into yoga seriously. I watched youtube videos of people practicing yoga and watched their technique. I also bought a plethora of Wai Lana DVD's and started to practice with her as my instructor. Once I felt my strength building and my technique improving, I started to take yoga classes. I was so scared during my first yoga class, as I felt I wasn't "good enough", but I made it through, my instructor was kind, and I now go to her as often as I can.
On Facebook, I am a "liker" of several yoga pages, and at times I'm frustrated by those pages. They show people in very difficult asana's (poses, or yoga positions), and I wonder to myself "how many people look at these photos and think there is no way in hell I can contort myself into that position, or I have no strength to do that!". I believe that those photos really do put a lot of people on the defensive about yoga, which is a huge shame.
It has taken me 3 years to get into a moderately advance practice of yoga. I'm finally learning to do headstands, which is something I never imagined in my wildest dreams I could accomplish. Three years of faithful practice, by faithful, I'm talking about practicing about 6-8 hours of yoga a week. I'm fortunate in that I can practice that many hours, as I know many in this crazy and complicated world cannot.
I am also a big girl, and that is something else I will be talking about in my blogs.
This is my first blog ever, and am going to talk about how I built up to being mid advanced, how I realized that getting to the point where I am at took a lot of effort and time, and that how yoga has benefited and healed me in many aspects of my life, and many more things about yoga that you may find interesting.
My message in this blog is this: If you want to practice yoga, please don't be intimidated. If you are painfully shy or have no access to a yoga class, then I suggest buying DVD's, and the best ones I can recommend are Wai Lana DVD's the Beginner's Set. You can buy them through her website (google her), or on Amazon, it's a three DVD set, each DVD about half an hour long. Practice as many times as you can until you have mastered those moves, then go onto her next DVD set. If you're fortunate to be able to attend yoga classes, choose an instructor that you are not intimidated by (trust me most beginner yoga teachers are far from intimidating), and go from there. You'll make so many good friends, and you'll realize thatpeople who practice yoga are very accepting and kind and encouraging.
I did not hear of yoga until I was in college, and one of my friends gave a speech about yoga and showed us a few moves. From that day I was hooked. So I bought books and flashcards on yoga asana's (yoga positions), and went to a few yoga courses.
Life took over, and yoga was put on hold, I started practicing again in my early thirties, not seriously, but once a week or so.
Two years ago I started to get into yoga seriously. I watched youtube videos of people practicing yoga and watched their technique. I also bought a plethora of Wai Lana DVD's and started to practice with her as my instructor. Once I felt my strength building and my technique improving, I started to take yoga classes. I was so scared during my first yoga class, as I felt I wasn't "good enough", but I made it through, my instructor was kind, and I now go to her as often as I can.
On Facebook, I am a "liker" of several yoga pages, and at times I'm frustrated by those pages. They show people in very difficult asana's (poses, or yoga positions), and I wonder to myself "how many people look at these photos and think there is no way in hell I can contort myself into that position, or I have no strength to do that!". I believe that those photos really do put a lot of people on the defensive about yoga, which is a huge shame.
It has taken me 3 years to get into a moderately advance practice of yoga. I'm finally learning to do headstands, which is something I never imagined in my wildest dreams I could accomplish. Three years of faithful practice, by faithful, I'm talking about practicing about 6-8 hours of yoga a week. I'm fortunate in that I can practice that many hours, as I know many in this crazy and complicated world cannot.
I am also a big girl, and that is something else I will be talking about in my blogs.
This is my first blog ever, and am going to talk about how I built up to being mid advanced, how I realized that getting to the point where I am at took a lot of effort and time, and that how yoga has benefited and healed me in many aspects of my life, and many more things about yoga that you may find interesting.
My message in this blog is this: If you want to practice yoga, please don't be intimidated. If you are painfully shy or have no access to a yoga class, then I suggest buying DVD's, and the best ones I can recommend are Wai Lana DVD's the Beginner's Set. You can buy them through her website (google her), or on Amazon, it's a three DVD set, each DVD about half an hour long. Practice as many times as you can until you have mastered those moves, then go onto her next DVD set. If you're fortunate to be able to attend yoga classes, choose an instructor that you are not intimidated by (trust me most beginner yoga teachers are far from intimidating), and go from there. You'll make so many good friends, and you'll realize thatpeople who practice yoga are very accepting and kind and encouraging.
Thankyou for reading this blog and I hope you will continue to read more of my future blogs :)
Namaste
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