http://magicseaweed.com/news/kassia-goes-here/10217/ First paragraph: 'Surfing and yoga are wonderful active meditations, and perfect ways to move the subtle energies of your body. The sonic element is also a wonderful way to move your body's water on a more subtle level of frequency. Adding them all together it is like a a rocket ship for movement on all levels physical, spiritual, and energetic to move any stuck or stagnant energies quickly and effectively.' Who the fark talks like this???? If you can get past a bunch of women doing yoga, sh!t like this is just sh!t. A bunch of kooks getting together to do yoga and transferring their new age nonsense into the water. As said best in the comments: 'Explore and open your mind, with peace, love and yoga, don't worry you wont have to interact with a nicaraguan the whole week.'
People can ruin anything by overthinking, over describing, over analyzing, etc. I've been doing Yoga for 8 years. It's good for flexibility and relaxation; it might help with concentration. Sometimes you get in a class full of hotties in yoga pants, which is a good thing...
No boobees. White chicks with border-line dreads. Probably all smell like that hippie oil. Hairy bushels. Mostly into scissoring. Nary a cock insertion. One evening with Chavez would change all that......
I've been doing yoga on and of for 20 years. Meditation for 10. There is a spiritual element in yoga. Yoga means Union. Union with mind body and soul. But Fungus, for once I have to agree with you. That sounded like straight up new age shyt. Yoga has been corrupted by people who use the whole spiritual aspect as an escape instead of dealing with their own shortcomings. Case in point; I dated a yoga instructor. She glowed with an air of beauty, peace, and all that was good in the universe. Then as the relationship grew and got more intense I slowly realized she was the most untrustworthy fuked up chick I ever dated.
Down with Yoga pants! That article makes me want to punch someone in the face. DSUP, get over here! I meditate several times a week, without it I would be even more off kilter. I know thats hard to imagine but this new wave of yoga, is basically empty soccer moms trying not to feel fully useless here in HI, there is a a whole cult of fit skanky babes trying to be spiritual by doing insta-poses in bikinis, yea skank, super spiritual to present your vulva to the camera. Also, the level of aloof pseudo-superiority and disdain they emanate to all others is palpable and defeats the point of the image they try and cultivate but prease, keep posing hos!
i like those barre girls. dunno if it's yoga or dancing, but those chicks usually have the bods i like. cuz there's a pole around, i like to think they're the classy version of a stripper i'd introduce to my parents
Look, that article came out of MSW. Their British!! They have names like Nigel, Winston, Harry etc. You can't believe anything they say.....
Agree 100% Yoga does have a spiritual element as does meditation. Zen. Whatever you want to call it. The whole "breath in energy from the earth" type crap. I mean it's kinda true. After doing yoga or meditating i do actually feel refreshed and ready to go. Filled with energy. Actually used it as a replacement for coffee for awhile. But let's face it. That energy isn't coming from the earth. I don't get the need to sugar coat and add all that hippie dippie crap. Just call it what it is. And might i add although it's slightly off topic. Anyone who does yoga classes should really try it by themselves. Iv never done a class. But i feel like it'd be tough to get into that meditative state while in a class. Just do us all a favor and don't get all hippie dippie about it
Mmm, I respect you Bassmon, but I agree and disagree with the "energy from earth" comment. I agree that it is confabulated to a point in yoga cliques where it becomes watered down and misrepresented. I disagree though because if we look at nature and our own physiology it is legit and backed by science. The movements of planets within our solar system play a huge part in cycles in nature from animal migrations, vegetation cycles, to changes in the weather, and growing science shows even the ocurrance of earthquakes and volcanic eruption. Human bodies contain magnetic material https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC49775/ and though minute can be affected by the cycles of the solar system just like the salmon know when to and how to return from the deep ocean depths back to their birth place in high mountain streams. Many eastern religions are influenced by this universal cycle even Judaism and Christianity, but this 'Yuppie Yoga" as Fungis calls it really don't know jack aboot what they're sayin. It's evident when you observe these pseudo spiritualists. They'll go on and on aboot chakras and finding their centers and alignment with the universe but once they walk out of the yoga den they hop on their smart phones talk smack and go about their narcissistic ways. Or they'll go to Thailand for a yoga retreat, meditate and fast for days, and then attend a full moon party and all of a sudden turn into the slut everyone talked about in high school. To really tap into the energy of the universe takes at its base knowledge, strict self discipline, and austerity. Nothing hippie about it. And I totally agree with you on doing yoga alone.
Speaking of things you don't know and understand like you're an authority on the subject isn't the best look. If you've never even taken a class, you haven't got a leg to stand on, and any definitive opinions you have regarding yoga, sound rediculus. Is that quote over the top? - Yes. Don't let one persons representation of an ancient practice ruin it for you. Yoga is not just stretching! The stretch you get is just one of many benifits yoga will give you. If your mind is already closed to something, it will never serve you. Regarding vibration and subtle energy, look into atomic molecules; everything in our physical world is made of vibrational energy. Yoga means to yolk the mind and body into one harmonious entity (aka feel really good physically and mentally in a unified way). We don't realize how physically and mentally disjointed we are; yoga brings you're sh:t back together in a pretty sweet way. The problem is we don't realize we are so disjointed until we reap the benefits of a yoga practice. Yoga is a door to an awesome room you didn't know existed. The commercialization of Yoga is not awesome along with the people who use it as an outlet to be vain on social media. "It's not cool to like yoga unless you're a chick, pu$$y, or flake" - that energy is palpable here as some of you tread that fine "they think I'm a pu$$y"/"they think I'm cool" line. If you're living in fear of what others think, you're living their life, not your own. There are different types of yoga, with varying degrees of difficulty. I'll make you cry in 2 minutes with a difficult pose if that's what your ego needs to protect its tough manliness. Again, don't let one approach (ie yuppy style) discourage you from something great. Some teachers are amazing, some are not. Sometimes it's the student too; I know a super cool dude but don't dig his classes at all, most people I know like his classes though. Practicing on your own is good, going to class is better. Yoga is much more complex than we realize, and has tremendous benifits for any practitioner, on any level. Keeping ourselves safe if in boxes of what the general population deems cool will result in us missing out on our whole lives. How would we respond to a non surfer talking about surfing like they had a clue? Replace the word "yoga" with "surfing" in some of your comments to get an idea. No worries, just giving some perspective from the inside, out. Signed, Successfully Trolled.
My wife and I actually just started doing it at home. YouTube has infinite videos. I have been having back issues since my last car accident and recently pulled a muscle in my lower back. I heard so many good things I figured it would help. I have to say it feels really good and I enjoy it. Going to stick with it I think.
