(K) I AM YOGA

yogadudes:

ด้วยรัก #yoga#yogi#meditation#yogalife#yogastyle#yogapose#yogalove#style#strength#pose#posture#positive#philosophy#health#healthy#happy#loveyoga#fitness#favorite#keepfit#workout#exercise#asana#ashtanga#balance#body#bkk#bangkok#thailand# - @atthakrisna- #webstagram

charlottekesl:

more images from Yoga Strength all around freetown, april 2013.

urbanfitopia:

Taking antigravity yoga has really highlighted my trust issus. Why do I have such trouble falling backwards or untwisting my legs even when I know there is something there?!

yogadudes:

Here’s my progress so far with these poses. Still working on them! :D

yogadudes:

Hollow Back: Where Yogis and Bboys converge. - @ruelontherocks- #webstagram

kathrynbegins:

pufflehug:

paper-is-patient:

healthiie:

Neck & Shoulders

• Hatha Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Health - 57 Min
• Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Tension and Injuries - 14 Min
• Feel Good Friday: Yoga for Neck & Shoulders - 14 Min
• Back to School Shoulder Stretches - Yoga Sequence - 6 Min
• Yoga for Your Shoulders 10 Minute Workout Routine - 10 Min
• Beginners’ Yoga for Shoulder Strength with Melissa McLeod - 22 Min

Chest:

• Yoga Workout Beginners Home Chest & Shoulders Exercise Routine How To - 11 Min
• Yoga for Heart Opening - 10 Min
• Heart Opening 30 Min Yoga Class - 31 Min
• Heart Chakra Yoga Sequence - 10 Min

Arms:

• Yoga for Firm and Shapely Arms and Shoulders - 9 Min
• Arm Yoga Workout - 4 Min
• Total Body Transformation Yoga: Hips and Arms - 11 Min
• Yoga For Arm Strength: Part One (8Min) & Part Two (2 Min)
• Yoga For Guitar Players — Arms, Wrists, and Fingers - 8 Min

Back:

• Yoga for Back Strength - 7 Min
• Yin Yoga for the Spine - 60 Min
• Restorative Yoga For Back - Restoraflow - 40 Min
• Yoga for Back Care - 15 Min
• Yoga Workout | Low Back Pain Stretches Routine - 10 Min
• Yoga for your back - 19 Min
• Lower Back Relief - 17 Min

Abs:

• Yoga 4 Abs with Gillian B & Sebastian - 10 Min
• Yoga for Abs and Core Strength - 8 Min
• Yoga Abs Workout - 10 Min
• Iron Yoga Abs & Closing Stretches - 15 Min (Note: Includes weights. If you dont have weights, use a can from the pantry or something similar.)
• Yoga to Build Strong Abs - 7 Min

Hips:

• Hip Opening Yoga - 45 Min
• Yoga Flow Hip Openers - 14 Min
• Wall Yoga for Hips and Hamstrings - 12 Min
• Yoga for Hip Pain and Stiffness - 17 Min
• Butt, Hips & Thighs Warm up - 7 Min
• Yoga Mania: Move those hips! - 12 Min
• Office Yoga: Hip Release - 10 Min
• Yoga for your Butt - 6 Min
• Yoga Tone your Butt and Thighs - 4 Min

Legs:

• Denise Austin: Yoga Legs Workout - 10 Min
• Gentle Yoga for Tight Legs and Hips - 20 Min
• Yoga for Sexy Legs - 6 Min
• Sleek Yoga Legs - 4 Min

Full Body/Full Classes:

• Jillian Michaels: Yoga Meltdown Level 1 - 35 Min
• Weight Loss & Fatburning Yoga Workout - 20 Min
• Yoga for Weight Loss - 20 Min
• Yoga for Runners - 26 Min
• Foundations in Flow Yoga Class with Fiji McAlpine - 48 Min
• Connections to Core Power Yoga Class with Fiji McAlpine - 57 Min
• Energizing Sunrise Practice - 38 Min
• Power Yoga with Bryan Jones - 31 Min
• Yoga Class with Logynn Northrhip  - 60 Min
• Yoga Basics to Improve Alignment - 62 Min
• Yoga for Beginners Two with Dr. Melissa West - 60 Min
• Intermediate/Beginner: Lunch Time Yoga Class - 45 Min

Enjoy :)

Reblogging for myself because so far all the yoga classes I’ve done through my Roku were crap/not even yoga.

I’ve bought a few things on Amazon to use on the Roku. I really wish there was a YouTube channel on Roku though :(

I think I’ve reblogged this before, but I might need it when we go to LA so I’m reblogging again!

yogadudes:

Plain and simple, but yet too complex to master it… Downward Facing Dog is one my favorites yoga asanas of all times. It’s the moment within the practice you get to come back to your roots to drop away any tension, while energizing your whole body, from your fingertips to your hips, and back down to your heels. It’s a meditative moment, where you stop for an instant, you surrender, you feel thankful, then you keep growing… You gotta love it 🙏 Pose: Adho Mukha Svanasana #yoga #ashtanga #vinyasa #flow #me #yogaeverydamnday #pose #balance #flexibility #strength #workout #fitness #muscle #training #back #energy #healthy #lifestyle #love #peace #visuals #inspiration #fit #photooftheday #like #igers #instagood #nowiswow @mandukayoga - @4daocean- #webstagram

my friend Stephen

iamkiam:

Burlesque TV - Yoga with Kiam Marcelo Junio (by VaudezillaVision)

Look! Yoga in the park with some burlesque stars!

yogadudes:

Natajarasana….!!!! Om!!!! 🙏 #mexicodf #yoga #natajarasana #yogapostures #asanas #anusarayoga #asics #asicstiger #tigershoes - @juankayoga- #webstagram

mianoti:

Bruce Mau — Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

{ thanks to The RX who posted a condensed version of it }

• Allow events to change you. 

You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

• Forget about good. 

Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

• Process is more important than outcome. 

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

• Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). 

Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

• Go deep. 

The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

• Capture accidents. 

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

• Study. 

A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

• Drift. 

Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.

• Begin anywhere. 

John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

• Everyone is a leader. 

Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

• Harvest ideas. 

Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.

• Keep moving. 

The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

• Slow down. 

Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.

• Don’t be cool. 

Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

• Ask stupid questions. 

Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.

• Collaborate. 

The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.

• ____________________. 

Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.

• Stay up late. 

Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you’re separated from the rest of the world.

• Work the metaphor. 

Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.

• Be careful to take risks. 

Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

• Repeat yourself. 

If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.

• Make your own tools. 

Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

• Stand on someone’s shoulders. 

You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.

• Avoid software. 

The problem with software is that everyone has it.

• Don’t clean your desk. 

You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.

• Don’t enter awards competitions. 

Just don’t. It’s not good for you.

• Read only left-hand pages. 

Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our “noodle.”

• Make new words. 

Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.

• Think with your mind. 

Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.

• Organization = Liberty. 

Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between “creatives” and “suits” is what Leonard Cohen calls a ‘charming artifact of the past.’

• Don’t borrow money. 

Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.

• Listen carefully. 

Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.

• Take field trips. 

The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

• Make mistakes faster. 

This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.

• Imitate. 

Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.

• Scat. 

When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else … but not words.

• Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.

• Explore the other edge. 

Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.

• Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. 

Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.

• Avoid fields. 

Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.

• Laugh. 

People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.

• Remember. 

Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.

• Power to the people. 

Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.

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iamkiam:

Is your ego controlling your life? Here are some characteristics of the human ego.

nirvikalpa:

These ideas were taken from Eckhart Tolle’s books, “The Power of Now” and “A New Earth.”

iamkiam: FELLOW YOGA BITCHES, DON’T BE DUMB.

nmartinez:

okay, i’m obsessed with yoga.

Okay, I’m obsessed with pointing out the inanity of people parading around unaware of the social inequalities surrounding them and their own status of privilege and how they continue to perpetuate colonialist ideals by flaunting their (most often) white bodies in yoga postures in disadvantaged locales to the blurred faces of poor, uncultured, or exotic local residents as an display of appropriation of culture and abuse of power. 

My fellow yoga bitches, please don’t be dumb. Please. 

fuckyeahyoga:

There’s a lot of things you can do to toughen up your wheel/backbending practice!

From wheel ….

1. Do this pic. 

2. Walk your feet to the midline of your body and straighten your legs. Your chest should push closer to the back of the room.

3. Do wheel pushups. Bend the elbows and touch your forehead to the mat then straighten the arms again.

4. Drop your elbows to the mat. (You might want some help here. Have someone hold onto your hips or just be ready to roll onto the side and fall?). 

5. Walk your feet a little closer to the hands and see if you can point one foot towards your hands (like lift the foot off the mat to do this) and then see if you can touch that shin to the mat (essentially knee to mat). Then come back up to wheel and try the other one. If you get both knees to the mat, I’ve seen people kind of “roll” up to camel.

6. Walk your feet a little closer to the hands and hop up into a handstand then to down dog. 

7. I remember someone submitted a fun wheel pose where they turned around clockwise on the mat where their hands were where their feet were and the feet were where the hands were. Then they rotated around counter clockwise. Challenges the perception and awareness! And is challenging for the body too.

ETC ETC! Fun transitions.

Wheel itself is difficult. … So watch your ego. Never do a yoga pose that is beyond your capabilities! If you’re fine in supported bridge pose … that’s COOOOOLLL TOOOOO

milktree:

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.