After some research and a hour or two scrolling through Instagram ( I will link the websites and Instagram accounts below) I decided on the style of yoga I want to pursue and a few different websites with instructors who post their videos online!! The style of yoga I settled on is called Ashtanga, it is described as the most rigorous form of yoga which is a little bit scary but really exciting at the same time. The definition of Ashtanga is (ashta)-meaing limb and (anga)- meaning practice, this refers to yogas "eight limb practice". The eight limbs include the practice of: restraint, observance, posture, breath control, sense withdrawal, concentration, meditative absorption, and "enstasy". Enstasy is the definition the word samadhi which literally means to "put together" or "stand inside of". The instructor that I found on Instagram also has a blog of her own with different sections one about the "physical journey" and another about the "spiritual journey" which is an idea I might use to document my journey as well! I do have to say that at first all the different styles of yoga and the names of poses and "spiritual journey"-ness of yoga was a lot to take in, but once I finally sat down and tried to actually understand these people and their interpretations of everything, it was no longer scary but exciting and only makes me want to read more and sign up for my first class (:
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
First Blog!
The goal of my 20 Time project is to make yoga a part of my lifestyle. I plan on starting my research by learning about all the different aspects of yoga and all of its benefits while slowly starting to incorporate the activity into my everyday life! The one thing I am not very good at is balance whether its balancing my everyday life or even holding a yoga pose. What really made me choose this topic as opposed to something else would be that there are more than just physical benefits to doing yoga, and i excited to "find myself" as many people say yoga helps them do! One of my classmates Sanjay brought me a book full of yoga poses from India which i'm really excited to get into, I started reading the beginning and its very interesting. I plan to blog my progress anywhere from once to twice a week. I think it might be fun to see my progress by taking pictures or videos of myself trying some of the basic poses at first and then comparing them to my skills at the end of the year! ....until next time (:
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