Hi all, firstly Yoga is a fabulous exercise; and has proven itself excellent until the last 50 years. Yoga has worked for 5,000 years, but today 99% of people are to unfit to try yoga.
I have posts elsewhere about yoga but most people are to much out of shape to stretch and hold yoga positions. Telling people to listen to their body is silly in the modern age, people are in to much of a hurry to move slowly and yoga and Pilates are intense forms of exercise.
They are fabulous once you get strong and flexible enough otherwise you will end up in rehab, sorry but check the statistics.
People must slowly build up health and adjust to the new lifestyle demands : )
/ hugz ; )
Very well said! Doing a "30 days of yoga" via YouTube channel was not a good idea for me as a programmer who codes all day long and doesn't live a very active lifestyle (though I am in pretty good shape, which is surprising). If (when?) I get back into yoga, it will be with a professional who can help me learn to listen to my body correctly. Thanks for chiming in again!
Yoga is an awesome exercise routine for normal average people, I love Yoga I have about six yoga books physically here. Plus more ebooks online.
I suffer fibromyalgia which I wanted to use Yoga for. But please remember people reading this are seriously unfit and unhealthy, plus they probably take a lot of toxic over the counter vitamins and minerals and have been eating semi-poisonous foods for years.
Yoga requires you adopt a position and hold that position as you breathe and adjust your balance and coordination for a few seconds to a few minutes.
Trouble is people have spent 5 years or 20 years getting lazy and unfit. Until I invented my 300 second a day exercise program since I injured myself overdoing my new years resolution about getting fit. The closest I came to exercise was towel drying myself after a shower.
Nothing in this new age is your fault, you are not responsible for any of your actions or inaction's. If you fell out the car window by riding along the car door, its not your fault being a fool; the police should have been there to stop you before you fell.
I must towel dry myself and risk injury from overstretching the wrong way because my life partner refuses to dry me. Thus if I get hurt it is her fault, not my own. If you take up exercise like Yoga or Pilates and get injured it is someones fault.
If you get heart disease, diabetes or metabolic syndrome that is not your fault either; after all in today's new age you need to be cared for, informed and protected : )
/ hugz ; )
Well screw that. Hehe. I prefer personal responsibility in every area of life. :)
(And yes, I know there's no sarcasm font.)
I almost understand I am the master of my own destiny, but in today's brave new world of information and political correctness, only 214 people feel that way anymore.
People today decide to take actions or inactions and then use 20-20 hind sight to work backwards to find someone else to distract others from seeing them as a fool.
Example this professional burglar uses his method to rob houses. He is hard at work breaking the law and the skylight he uses cases out as his weak point of property defense is found.
As he is entering the skylight moves and he falls and he injures himself, he sues the property owner for an incorrectly fitted and defective skylight.
Actually the real story of criminal behaviors is different and appears here it seems : http://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/the-burglar-and-the-skylight-another-debunking-that-isnt/
But is a case of someone breaking the law and profiting. I must take responsibility for my own life since almost every day I am almost beside myself with rage to stop choking the living **it out of some AH who needs it.
So unless I wanted to spend much time every month talking with police officers I must control my own actions and not blame others : )
/ hugz ; )
But truly; it is very tempting to deal with these fools in the way mother nature intended, by making them extinct and thus permanently removing them from the breeding gene pool of humanity . .