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Aug 2017
7:39pm, 2 Aug 2017
5,301 posts
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Wobbling
I miss Hipps
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Aug 2017
7:50pm, 3 Aug 2017
5,306 posts
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Wobbling
Lovely class this evening, lots of leg stretching/hip opening stuff. I am very much enjoying my new yoga studio, close to the office, classes that I like, engaging teachers and there's a 5:30 class twice a week.
And, the classes are a good mix of attendees, a fair few unbendy middle-aged folk, and not rows and rows of swishy haired 'clean eating' types like the other nearby studio I tried.
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Aug 2017
8:07pm, 3 Aug 2017
809 posts
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Flatlander
Yes, classes are much more enjoyable when you like them. 
At this morning's yoga class, the teacher said that her classes are relatively easy and she might introduce some more demanding work in future classes - much to the audible dismay of some ;-)!
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Aug 2017
10:04pm, 3 Aug 2017
94,676 posts
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GregP
It was Anahata week for us - we've been doing a chakra a week for a while*. Nice.
*Five weeks?
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Aug 2017
11:50am, 4 Aug 2017
27,055 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
That was a good link describing different "types" of classes. Looks like Hatha or Yin for me, cos all the other ones are the more vigorous stuff and I don't like that. I do enough vigorous in running and weights classes, thank you! G
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Aug 2017
11:55am, 4 Aug 2017
94,719 posts
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GregP
That's a nice post Happers-Gee-ers. I tried Pilates a while back, and (this sounds daft even typing it) it seemed too much like exercise, without actually being recognisable as such.
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Aug 2017
12:22pm, 4 Aug 2017
7,869 posts
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Garfield
Yeah, you probably wouldn't get on with Vinyasa yoga...it's quite strenuous - good for upper body strength with downward dogs.
I've found some bits of it disagree with an old yoga injury of mine, so I've resorted to Pilates to get what I need without annoying my odd glute injury.
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Aug 2017
10:05pm, 4 Aug 2017
69,028 posts
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Hanneke
I always get confused when people talk about Vinyasa yoga, as technically speaking, it isn't a form. It just means flow and is used to describe sequences. I teach a very classical Hatha yoga style. What has worked for thousands of years doesn't need jazzing up. I just adapt postures for those of advancing age or with physical limitations
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Aug 2017
11:08am, 5 Aug 2017
7,872 posts
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Garfield
That's interesting Hanneke and makes sense. My teacher had been doing a lot of Ashtanga poses interspersed with Vinyasa flow. Then floor work or standing poses, depending on the night.
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May 2019
9:40am, 6 May 2019
16,368 posts
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EvilPixie
Boing
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