Yoga + Stretching + Meditation - Page 3

longple inspired me with his blog and posts here.

I'll give quick update:

I was taking a local yoga class. Really awesome. Teachers were great. Classes were small and friendly. It was a local place dedicated solely to yoga. Owner has been practicing for 40 years. I would recommend. I was going daily for a while and took some private lessons and bought recommended literature. (Erich Schiffman stuff). Rodney Yee tapes. Yoga Journal. I then started practicing a lot at home. Experimenting. It's all good.

Mediation is inline with yoga. Yoga is moving meditation. But, I started going to a local meditation center for practice. Helped out a lot. Just practicing a lot. I have been reading a book called "Where Ever You Go, There You Are." A lot of good insight in there.

I don't know. I like this thread as a sort of growing, evolving source for yoga, stretching, and meditation information. Now, I am just typing a loud.

hmmmm,

I suppose I have some questions.

Does anyone practice yoga outside in those outdoor sessions?

What are people's thoughts in regards to stretching and training?

I suppose stretching at anytime is beneficial to not?

http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Your-Spiritual-Chakras
When I first started meditating and didn't know much about it, this helped a lot. Remember, it is important to have an open-mind, not to take yourself too seriously or get frustrated if it doesn't work at first, and to believe that you are fully capable of doing it.

poker can be a very spiritual game but mostly just passionate people play. taking a general poker players advice on spirituality is like asking a homeless man for sobriety tips

On September 19 2015 02:55 Baalim wrote: Harris is pretty smug in general. People say that you usually hate your own flaws reflected in others but it doesnt seem to bother me at all when smart people are smug.

haha same
I do have other flaws that annoy me in others but warranted smugness is just awesome. Maybe it's just that I don't actually consider smugness a flaw.


Also, a while ago I was feeling sore all around, stiff, inflexible and unable to move with the graceful fluidity I've come to expect from myself. I had been for a while, and it was annoying me. Soo before going to bed one night I just youtubed some 'yoga in bed' routine, then I watched a 12 minute long video or so, replicated her moves to the best of my ability, and I woke up the next day feeling like a new man. After that, I've been doing some 'yoga' (it's pretty much just stretching though, I don't try to meditate or whatever, I'm just breathing heavily while stretching intensely and holding until I'm tired) for like 10-15 minutes most days for the past 2 weeks. And I've felt so good. I wholeheartedly recommend stretching, and then you might as well replicate yoga moves cause they seem to have that part figured out, and if not every day then absolutely every week. I wasn't doing it for a long time, but looking back at how my body was feeling before I did it and after, and how much flexibility I seem to have regained already, I wish I had started sooner. ;p

On October 18 2015 12:27 EzPzLmnSqz wrote: poker can be a very spiritual game but mostly just passionate people play. taking a general poker players advice on spirituality is like asking a homeless man for sobriety tips

Something competitive cannot be spiritual, they are diametrically opposed to each other. Competitiveness and dominance appeal to our base animalistic nature, while spiritual goals seek to overcome that nature. What you probably mean is that your game can benefit from spiritual practices outside of the game, simply because these practices allow you to be more mindful and reduce emotional reactivity which will lead to bad decisions. During the game you might be using mindfulness or relaxation techniques but there are no spiritual aims (or gains) there, it's just part of your strategy; it's a means to an end for the purpose of material gain.

even a mass murderer can be spiritual if he is aware of his ignorance and detaches himself from it. what you speak of is a heavenly pursuit which is temporary as well.

simply said u can be addicted to ignorance , passion or even goodness. whatever your nature is , you work according to your own nature and slowly detach yourself from the fruits of your work

this is hindu philosophy

Cant recommend enough

I don't get anything out of any of the 'spiritual' stuff when I go to yoga class. I go to yoga once in awhile because it's great for flexibility and also helps you to tune your mental strength (holding them poses longer than you thought you ever could) which can lead you to do better things physically. But I can't stand the instructors who are there constantly babbling about...uhh...'spiritual' shit. Which leads into...if you want to improve general core strength as well as mobility/flexibility without any of the mumbo jumbo...go take pilates classes. I'm not totally advocating pilates over yoga as there are body benefits to yoga you don't get from pilates (I still go to yoga as well on top of pilates sometimes)...but if you're like me and want to stuff 40 socks down the mouths of some talky yoga instructors and tell them to just get on going with the movements, pilates is the way to go.

Anyone know what this is about?