Hello everyone!

I have just recently started my yoga practice and I love it! I chronicle my adventures in trying to live a healthy and green life on my website http://www.ecobellus.com

Feel free to drop by and say hello!

This is the old studio I went to when I lived in the suburbs of Toronto: http://www.yogatree.ca/
I highly recommend it if you live in that area, it is really really excellent. Classes taught by Jason and Karin especially, those two were my favourites. Once again though, the focus more on power and strength, and are hot classes.

I am normally a fan of really intense power yoga and ashtanga classes. I like to sweat it out in a class and really feel like I work my body. One of the things I'm not so great as is focusing, especially on breathing, so in a slower class or one that is too repetitive I tend to get bored.

Last class I went to, the usual instructor was absent. The person who replaced her, started the class pretty hardcore as usual, but "fizzled out" pretty quickly, reversing the usual power-to-stretching ratio. I think we only did about 20 min of power poses and then went into a slower stretching pace for the other 45 min or so. Which at the time kind of bummed me out, but trying to make the best of the class I thought I'd really try to get the most out of each pose and work on flexibility. So I really tried to follow the whole going deeper and pushing your edge with every exhale thing.

The next day I found that I was sore in some of the areas that those poses were targeting, which surprised me. In power yoga you really don't hold a pose very long, and they tend to focus on arm strengthening and certain other areas, so my obliques really felt something when doing a slightly different exercise.

I guess variety is the spice of life.

My goal is to work up to going to three times a week again, in which case I intend to make one of those classes a slower one. I really feel like a variety of styles will get me to focus on different things, and definitely help me with my focus/breathing attention problem

I started practicing yoga about ten years. The first 4-5 years I was really dedicated and diligent about my practice. When I started school my practice took the backseat. Now I would really love to get back into the swing of things. I just feel so tired all of the time and truly trapped in my body because of lack of stretching and proper breathing. Having experienced the freedom yoga provides for you internally, it is really difficult to continue living like this. I hope I will be able to reconnect myself to my practice.

Breathe smile breathe
ofi

Resources about Hot Yoga in Charlotte NC.
www.hopesmyth.com

How long is recommend a day? and How long is the most you can do in a day?

With soon-to-be divorced parents, parents dating, softball and theater, schoolwork and friends, Job's Daughters, and more, I need a stress reducer that also helps my body physically and mentally. I've tried everything to get all of my stress issues off my mind and focused on my life but it seems as if nothing works! I need some me time and I'm hoping that by joinging an online yoga website that this will help.. I guess we will see! :/

I'm trying to turn over a new leaf in my life. I have done things in the past that I am not too proud of but I am willing to let the past go and move forward with my life, but as much as I try I am finding it harder and harder to move on.
I am picking up yoga again in hopes that it will help me find the inner peace that I am looking for and hope to gain. I am having some trouble. I can't seem to find my breath. I used to have no trouble doing this, in fact my previous yoga teacher used to tell me that I was one of the fist in my class to pick up the breath so quickly. I am looking for some ideas in helping me find my way. I know the breath is the key, I just can't get it to unlock. I feel a little left to center on this and need as much help and input on this as I can get... Thanks for listening!

so i love yoga and meditation but it seems like once i start and get comfortable with it something happens and i end up stopping so i have not meditated fully or yoga in years. last night was my first time, it was a sleeping on...it did not really make me tired like it said but it did relax me A LOT. i am glad i have felt that feeling again. i do believe i hurt my back slightly by relaxing out of a pose too fast but i swear it wont keep me back...

i hope i keep it up :)