somerandomguy
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@lovak - can you share your playlist? I need to do solo yoga but can't find anything suitable atm.
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30 Days of Yoga: 30 Days of Yoga - YouTube
Thats the one! @somerandomguy
Ontopic: when I was about 8 years old I actually sang in a church choir. When they were handing out the breadthingied I never got one because I wasn't baptised.
Ahhhhh, how inclusive and nice...
Thats the one! @somerandomguy
Ontopic: when I was about 8 years old I actually sang in a church choir. When they were handing out the breadthingied I never got one because I wasn't baptised.
Ahhhhh, how inclusive and nice...
bellbird
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Hah :) I went to a Christian high school and whenever they did communion in church I never took the cracker as my silent protest against the indoctrination. Also at how ridiculous it was that people actually believed that the cracker was the body of someone who potentially never even existed..
lostforgottensoul
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Indeed! I used to do Yoga as an exercise alone and LOVED IT and miss it greatly. I wasn't into their "religon" or guru or mumbo jumbo or whatever. It was a stretching exercise alone for me!
There are lots of secular yoga classes around.
its really a great thing . such a gentle practice and really gets you in to your body sensations and the felt sense ...and the guy who invented it is not involved in any sexual abuse scandals ( and hes dead now so that will keep him out of trouble lol) your not required to worship him as a god either.
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Chiqui
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I don't want to spoil the fun, but I feel I have to write this on the thread I started.
Many Eastern Gurus have a Big impact on their followers, as Rajnesh (Osho), even long time after he died. Books, meditations on line, yoga clases and courses, also on line.
Yoga means "connection with god", become one with god, the supreme energy, the Father, the Creator, the supreme soul, etc.
I know there are many different yogas, but my experience is that any yoga is innocuos. Behind those postures, soft music and words, there is an aim: to become Karma teek, one of the pilars of the Hinduism. To become pure, with any karmick accounts, through yoga.
So, please, be careful, my friends. This is where my ptsd comes from, 12 years as a raja yoga and meditation teacher and 10 years on treatment for that experience.
My mind and body were a total mess. And still a long journey for recovery in front on me.
Be safe
Many Eastern Gurus have a Big impact on their followers, as Rajnesh (Osho), even long time after he died. Books, meditations on line, yoga clases and courses, also on line.
Yoga means "connection with god", become one with god, the supreme energy, the Father, the Creator, the supreme soul, etc.
I know there are many different yogas, but my experience is that any yoga is innocuos. Behind those postures, soft music and words, there is an aim: to become Karma teek, one of the pilars of the Hinduism. To become pure, with any karmick accounts, through yoga.
So, please, be careful, my friends. This is where my ptsd comes from, 12 years as a raja yoga and meditation teacher and 10 years on treatment for that experience.
My mind and body were a total mess. And still a long journey for recovery in front on me.
Be safe
On a deeper level it is difficult to seperate yoga from indian religion and culture...have you noticed how some people even give them selfs a sort of cultural lobotomy and there dressing up like and even giving them selfs an indian name...I would like to think there is no harm in it but i have observed in my self and others when i was dabbling in it that it created a sort of cultural dissocaiation .. You can become really rejecting and only seeing the negative aspects of your own culture and were your from ...and the sun shines out of indias ass and its heaven on earth ..when the reality is there is good and bad things in all cultures and india is no utopia I do not believe in this concept of holy lands and some parts of the world has more spirituality than others. all this earth is a sacred place and you can find it any were .inside and outside...will save you a fortune on air fares if you just go down the local park and hug a tree.
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Chiqui
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I agree. I have been in India around 8 times in my life, and it is not "special", neither ""more spiritual" than (...) What happens to westeners is, well, we suffer a "cultural shock"
I did. I wanted to stay, and live and die there. And I was lucky enough to stay longer than "an spiritual journey"and see, personally, how was like to live there, as a rutined life.
And the shock faded.
And yes! You star to change your food, clothing, friends habits, in order to experience a "fully yogi Life"
Lots of money and suffering could be saved with a good psicologist and treatment, in my case. But It is what It is.
No more "channeled energy", chakras alighment, body of light, denutrition for being vegi, etc. A complete scam, fraud.
I agree. I have been in India around 8 times in my life, and it is not "special", neither ""more spiritual" than (...) What happens to westeners is, well, we suffer a "cultural shock"
I did. I wanted to stay, and live and die there. And I was lucky enough to stay longer than "an spiritual journey"and see, personally, how was like to live there, as a rutined life.
And the shock faded.
And yes! You star to change your food, clothing, friends habits, in order to experience a "fully yogi Life"
Lots of money and suffering could be saved with a good psicologist and treatment, in my case. But It is what It is.
No more "channeled energy", chakras alighment, body of light, denutrition for being vegi, etc. A complete scam, fraud.
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I’m not a fan of yoga, too many years of gymnastics & dance training, but yoga studios are as common around here as coffee shops & bars. I’m sure there are some with religion &/or spirituality attached, but most -again, here- aren’t. Or at least, haven’t been for the past 20 years or so. Back in the early 90’s it was seen as kind of eastern fringe, but it’s been mainstream for decades. Sort of like drinking bottled water still indicated you were gay in the 80s & early 90s, but now everyone drinks it.
In addition to actual studios... It’s part of the PE program in public schools, offered at the YMCA daily, most gyms, and a lot of church & synagogue social groups.
It’s seen as a form of exercise. Nothing more.
In addition to actual studios... It’s part of the PE program in public schools, offered at the YMCA daily, most gyms, and a lot of church & synagogue social groups.
It’s seen as a form of exercise. Nothing more.
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somerandomguy
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I love yoga! For me it just really hits the sweet spot between exercise and meditation.
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