Glad to help! Also meant to mention this guy http://grimmly2007.blogspot.com/
Don't know if you read his blog already but if you go to the archive there is everything you need to know about starting and maintaining a home practice and loads of other great stuff. Very inspiring!
Thanks for the encouraging comment!In answer to your question, I did mostly learn Ashtanga at home. I hadn't done any yoga at all until last October and then while looking for resources to learn more I found Yoga Today....I don't know if you have come across it? Its a website that gives a different 1hr yoga lesson every day. It can be any level and also draws from different styles such as Anusara etc. Anyways, one day I found a 1hr class demonstrating the first half of the primary series with some modifications and really liked it! So I read around online, got the cheat sheet with the poses of primary in order and started to practice what I could of it a few days a week. At this point even the basics were a big problem for me and just getting through the sun salutations was a big ask!:) By January I felt confident enough to be in a class with other people without feeling like a complete eejit so I signed up for one class a week at a shala in the town where I work. This is Ashtanga based vinyasa style so it doesn't stick strictly to the series but I've found it great for me. In the early weeks we really concentrated on precision and form in the sun salutations which seemed really irritating at the time but worth it now....I can really tell the difference. Other weeks we would just get straight to it and plow through as much of primary as we could fit into 90 mins. So thats the class I take once a week and its great! Its one practice a week that does not have to motivated by me so thats good;) I don't get away with bad form or short counts and I get forced to work on stuff that scares the bejaysus out of me (inversions......all of them! jump/thump throughs! All the good stuff!) But my real practice is what I do at home the rest of the week. I would love to recommend a good primary series DVD to you but I've never really used anything except the Yoga Today site and that was only at first until I got the basics and the rest I learned from reading and youtube. Sharaths DVD is supposed to be good but you might need a quick finger for the pause button as I've heard he goes pretty fast!:)
What an essay of an answer! And now I can't remember what you wrote in the second part of your comment so I'm going post this and then have a look. As you can see yoga has greatly improved my mental processes;)
Hi Chris,
Thanks for leaving encouraging comments. I like the way you are listing how your daily yoga goes. I read some other comments to find out about the little green guy; very much fun.
Hey, I'm glad I found you!!! Somehow I feel that I will learn a lot from you, since you also started relatively recently (well... you have a 6 month advantage over me, which right now seems HUGE) ;)
I like the title Month of Gratitude. A lot of doom and gloom has caught my attention lately. I'm also thankful to have this practice of yoga as a reminder of gratitude.
Jai Guru!
Hi SeaStar. There's really no deep significance to my little green guy. Initially, I just used the default faceless gray head, but that was a little bit disturbing to me, so I set out to find something else. A lot of my favorite stuff is on my desk at work, and since I like it all, I guess on some level it all represents me. I almost used a group picture of my office bobbleheads (Adrian Monk, Tim Gunn, Dwight Schrute) for my image, cuz if you sort of mix them together, well, I've probably said too much ;-)
My brother gave me the green gargoyle many years ago after a trip to London. It guards my computer at work, so I've seen it every day for a long time. I needed a backdrop for the picture, so I thought yoga site ... yoga mat. I didn't really have much of a plan or concept.
After I took the picture, it started to grow on me. Here's this strange little guy, clearly out of place, a little uncomfortable on the mat, but happy to be there anyway. I sort of surprised myself by capturing my own feelings about yoga in that image.
Okay, I'm going to ask about your picture. I just noticed that it's sitting on your yoga mat (I think). I found it intriguing and ugly-cute (sorry!) from the beginning. Is there any personal significance to it?
Your comment about feeling so good after doing something poorly, rang many bells for me. It took me 3 years before I could get my hands flat on the floor with my legs straight. Yoga has taught me patients. There are many poses that are still not my friends, but I don't hate them anymore.
I know what you mean about yoga becoming such a special thing after a short time. It did for me as well. I also thought the same thing about down dog. Since I finally have my heels on the floor, I love it because I can relax into the pose instead of thinking about getting those heels to the floor!
May 2008 be the year when your Down Dog teaches you how to stretch your imagination as well as those ligaments at the back inside leg. Isn't it funny how we each have these poses that challenge us?
WoYoPracMo
Practice and all is coming -- Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
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Don't know if you read his blog already but if you go to the archive there is everything you need to know about starting and maintaining a home practice and loads of other great stuff. Very inspiring!
What an essay of an answer! And now I can't remember what you wrote in the second part of your comment so I'm going post this and then have a look. As you can see yoga has greatly improved my mental processes;)
Here's a blog post that explains why I fast.
Thanks for leaving encouraging comments. I like the way you are listing how your daily yoga goes. I read some other comments to find out about the little green guy; very much fun.
Thanks for your comment and support!
Jai Guru!
My brother gave me the green gargoyle many years ago after a trip to London. It guards my computer at work, so I've seen it every day for a long time. I needed a backdrop for the picture, so I thought yoga site ... yoga mat. I didn't really have much of a plan or concept.
After I took the picture, it started to grow on me. Here's this strange little guy, clearly out of place, a little uncomfortable on the mat, but happy to be there anyway. I sort of surprised myself by capturing my own feelings about yoga in that image.
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