For years I mistook obedience for depth. The day I started reading my practice as a system instead of a set of instructions — and started instrumenting it like one — everything I’d called discipline turned out to be drift.
This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I've been thinking about using compression work with my legs parallel so I can find the concave quality in my stomach while letting my hips move naturally. Does that make sense as a way to work? — from a MJH note Our Response Yes. That’s exactly the direction.Compression work with parallel legs gives you a container. You get to feel what your abdomen does when your hips aren’t externally rotated, when there’s no flinch pattern steering you away from the midline.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question something I've been thinking about lately I've had an on-and-off asana practice for years. some weeks I'm on the mat every day, other weeks I talk myself out of it constantly. you know how it goes but yoga nidra? every single night. haven't missed in months. it's become the most consistent practice I have by far I think it's because it requires zero activation energy. you're already in bed. you press play. you lie there.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I really want to feel stronger in my practice. I’m plus sized and am working on overall health/wellness and some weight loss is coming naturally as a side effect but that’s not my main goal. I do want to feel stronger during my practice (eg getting my leg higher in 3 legged dog or doing chatarunga from plank each time, not modifying to my knees). Does anyone have suggestions, using yoga or exercises outside of yoga to help with strength? submitted by /u/logarbanzobean [link] &#…
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I’ve been thinking about starting yoga, mostly to feel less stiff and maybe calm my mind a bit. But I’m not sure if it’s one of those things that sounds amazing in theory and then you stop after two weeks. submitted by /u/elgimri — via r/yoga Our Response Yeah. It is. But probably not in the way you're imagining right now. You're not going to do yoga for a month and suddenly become a different person.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I’ve been listening to a lot of genesis stories lately from Laruga and Kino and so on of how each found Ashtanga and continued the practice. I have been reflecting on my own journey and wanted to hear some everyday stories from the community on how you got here? Bit of a long post if you’re interested: I took my first yoga class when I was 18 or 19 on a gap year where I was bored with a lot of free time at the gym.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question Today I realised I skipped ardha Badda Padma paschimottan asana and tiriang! What is the proper way in a mysore studio: do you just let it go for the day or do you insert it back in when you remember? I just let it go because I felt it would rattle me more if the instructor came by and called me out Do experienced mysore Ashtangis still forget bits of the sequence ?? submitted by /u/JudgeBorn8370 — via r/ashtanga Our Response You skipped Ardha Baddha Padma Paschimottanasana and Triang Mukha.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I want to get into yoga to help with my mentality and body. I have lots of anxiety and stress constantly and i feel like i need to release it. Also i suffer with back pain from my poor posture due to always studying. I was wondering if yoga can tone the body? submitted by /u/jellyolo12 — via r/yoga Our Response Short answer: yes. But probably not the way you're imagining. You mentioned anxiety, stress, back pain from bad posture.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I have taken Ashtanga class from a yoga teacher before for 3 months. She had to move to another place and so I had been doing it by playing Ashtanga Primary series on YouTube. I wasn't consistent with this due to various reasons. One of the reasons was that I got bored doing the same sequence. I am now good with the standing poses but the sitting poses and headstand are all still hard for me.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question submitted by /u/Which-Acanthisitta24 — via r/yoga Our Response Yeah. That's going to happen for a while. Savasana is stillness. And stillness is where grief lives. When you're moving through postures, you've got something to do — breathe here, reach there, balance. Your body is occupied. Then you lie down and there's nothing between you and whatever you're carrying. Of course you cried. That's not a problem with your practice. That is your practice.
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