The great yoga adventure

Must have been so cool to study philosophy @Adge. Who do you think are the modern day philosophers? Are there any?

The class before mine was running a bit late this afternoon so I didn't have the usual ten or fifteen minutes to relax in Savasana I like to have. I was somewhat disappointed by the session. It was a new instructor and I just didn't feel as if her heart was in it.

My body benefitted in any case even if my mind lacked the peacefulness it usually derives.

Hope everyone has been enjoying the Sleeping Beauty/Dreamer Pose because it loses its limelight soon making way for a somewhat more challenging one.

What not to do whilst in Savasana.

Hi @Phoenix_Rising, @soul,

Recent days have seen me in dreamer pose a lot. Not because I was doing conscious yoga, more like I was actually dreaming. But I might have got in a few moments of conscious awareness of the pose before falling asleep, so I'm thinking maybe it counts. At the very least, I've got yoga on my mind lately!

Kind wishes to everyone in this thread, whether doing or even just thinking or reading about the poses.

Hi @soul Your cartoon is exactly right...

That's exactly what I do do in Savasana - "What do I have for dinner"?, etc, etc...Less now than it used to be though.

The more recent philosophers (in the past 50 years) I can't remember right now - except Nietsche (existentialist), Skinner (psychologist), Maslow (psychologist).

A century or so ago there was Immanuel Kant (one of my favourites), John Stuart Mill, & Descartes (even further back) - who's famous for the "I think therefore I am" saying.

Plato, Aristotle, & Socrates are the great Greek & Roman era philosophers - which a lot of modern thinking (& even theological ideas) are based on.

Gee, I haven't thought of those people (or ideas) in many years.... You got my brain ticking, which is good. It's not been working well recently.

Adge

Definitely counts @Mazarita. Yoga and Meditation can be many things to many people.

I have fallen asleep before class in Savasana @Adge I hear the instructor's voice and open my eyes to see a room full of people. I think once I stop the running around and thinking of the day and just lay there, I quickly drift off. It's like a little power nap for me. Probably don't get enough sleep at night.

Good that your brain cells are firing up @Adge. You reckon philosophers evolved into psychologists. Maybe now they are now physicists - Stephen Hawking or biologists - Richard Dawkins or entrepreneurs - Steve Jobs?

There's some overlap @soul, although they're all separate.

Off to work. eh...

Adge

Good morning everybody,

Welcome to a new week of yoga-ing.

Sorry I've been a little missing-in-action over the past few days. I got a bit stuck in my underwater cave due to inclement weather on the ocean. But that's ok, I was still yoga-ing in my cave. I was a dreamer on Friday and Saturday, but alas I missed yesterday...which was kind-of silly given that yoga-ing would probably have been super helpful yesterday. Oh well, yesterday is done and today is here - yay.

Yay to all the dreamers of last week! Methinks a lot of Forumites started dreaming last Monday and still haven't woken up!

@Former-Member I am super excited that you have joined the great yoga adventure.

@Mazarita it is super awesome that you dreamed AND tree-ed. I think you are right in saying that the effects of yoga are cumulative - like most things in life. I think that's why people talk about "practicing" yoga. It's not like there's a point where you go "yep, I can do yoga now." Much like my violin playing, it is something that will continue to improve for as long as you keep practicing it (at least, my neighbours are probably desperately HOPING my violin playing will keep improving!!! ).

@soul your idea of telling your studio what the pose of the week is super made me giggle. :smileyveryhappy: I am very jealous of your small classes. I am going to email my instructor tomorrow to start arranging a private lesson. Given I missed last week and today is a public holiday, I figure now is a good time to have that lesson.

@Adge, awwww I thought you would have told them at the retreat that Phoenix_Rising is your guru. I studied philosophy at uni too. I did a double major in psychology and philosophy. I super wanted to do my honours in philosophy, but figured I'd have more chance of employment pursuing psychology. Yeah...that plan didn't work out so great. Oh well.

So, by popular demand (and with some mild concerns that we might scare everyone away from yoga-ing), this week's pose is shoulder stand. Here is how to do a shoulder stand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KliOcj1ZXWg

@soul wisely suggested that we need a less scary option as an alternative to shoulder standing. Thus, our other option for the week is legs up the wall. This is how you do the legs up the wall pose (spoiler alert, it involves putting your legs up the wall :smileyveryhappy:): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUT2WKfu8c

Alright everybody, I can't wait to hear how you all go with yoga-ing this week. Have fun!

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Oh I'm sorry that I forgot to mention to the Yoga retreat people that you're my Guru @Phoenix_Rising...

You're certainly "motivational" with our yoga..ing.

Gee, a fellow philosopher (& psychologist)... I've done a few subjects in developmental psychology, they were really interesting.

My sub-major was in Ethics (a branch of philosophy), as you would know....

That's when I turned vegetarian - yeah the ethics studies did it...

Adge

Hi @Adge, I just shoulder-stood.

I super enjoyed philosophy. I very much enjoyed ethics, and I am also deeply interested in the philosophy of psychology. If I had gone on with philosophy, that is the area I would have focused on. Oh just to clarify, even though studying philosophy makes one a philosopher, studying psychology does not make one a psychologist. Even though I have completed all the educational requirements to become a psychologist in Australia, I am not registered and thus it would be inappropriate for me to leave unclarified the fact that I am not a psychologist. To become a psychologist, I would need to complete either a 2-year internship, or a 2-year masters degree or a one year degree + one year internship (the so-called 5+1 pathway). Sadly, given my muddle, it is extremely improbable that I will ever be in the headspace to take up any of these options. Oh well.

Have you shoulder stood yet today @Adge?

Ha @Phoenix_Rising - just as I was delighting in my small classes ......

It's a public holiday here where I am and there were only two classes on so the one I went to which is my regular Monday class was packed. I got there early as usual (walking there in the rain) then more and more people started turning up. Apparently there were 30 who had booked. Biggest class ever.

We didn't do any really active poses as it was a Yin session. Just as well as we would have been entangled in each other's arms and legs.

I did a shoulder stand when I got back home and the upside down bike riding thing just for fun ;).

If this little fellow can do a shoulder stand, I reckon the Yogi Forumites can give it a go.