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[OT] Yoga Enthusiasts?
Sorry I haven't been posting very much lately. I'm still working 14 - 16
hours a day 7 days a week and trying to get in my exercising, physical therapy, and learning yoga in all my spare time!! ; I'm still sending purrs for all who need them, and trying to at least spot check posts for anyone in need. Off topic now... I have a question for others here who may do yoga. I've always been very bendy. I have no problems touching my toes or sitting with legs spread and grabbing my feet. However, the girl on the yoga video I have looks like she doesn't have a bone in her body. She sits with her legs straight out in front of her and leans over and rests her face on her knees or stand and bends over forward with her face against her knees. My question is, do you become that limber with continued practice, or is this yoga instructor just double jointed or something? If you do become that limber, how long does it take? I'm practicing through the pain so my muscles will stretch and not stiffen up, but although I see some progress, I'm not there yet. Any advice? Hugs, CatNipped |
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On 2005-01-18, CatNipped penned:
I've always been very bendy. I have no problems touching my toes or sitting with legs spread and grabbing my feet. However, the girl on the yoga video I have looks like she doesn't have a bone in her body. She sits with her legs straight out in front of her and leans over and rests her face on her knees or stand and bends over forward with her face against her knees. My question is, do you become that limber with continued practice, or is this yoga instructor just double jointed or something? If you do become that limber, how long does it take? I'm practicing through the pain so my muscles will stretch and not stiffen up, but although I see some progress, I'm not there yet. Any advice? Never having been very bendy, even when I was doing martial arts (lots of warmup and cooldown stretching) almost daily, I could ask you the same thing. I only wish I could touch my toes or sit with legs spread and grab my feet! Whenever someone in a MA class (inevitably) comments on how women are more flexible and aren't they lucky yadda yaddah, I always want to beat them with my shoe. -- monique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!* |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:40:56 +0000, CatNipped wrote:
Sorry I haven't been posting very much lately. I'm still working 14 - 16 hours a day 7 days a week and trying to get in my exercising, physical therapy, and learning yoga in all my spare time!! ; I'm still sending purrs for all who need them, and trying to at least spot check posts for anyone in need. Off topic now... I have a question for others here who may do yoga. I've always been very bendy. I have no problems touching my toes or sitting with legs spread and grabbing my feet. However, the girl on the yoga video I have looks like she doesn't have a bone in her body. She sits with her legs straight out in front of her and leans over and rests her face on her knees or stand and bends over forward with her face against her knees. My question is, do you become that limber with continued practice, or is this yoga instructor just double jointed or something? If you do become that limber, how long does it take? I'm practicing through the pain so my muscles will stretch and not stiffen up, but although I see some progress, I'm not there yet. Any advice? Hugs, CatNipped I suspect age is a factor. MLB |
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CatNipped wrote:
My question is, do you become that limber with continued practice, or is this yoga instructor just double jointed or something? If you do become It takes practice, practice, practice. that limber, how long does it take? I'm practicing through the pain so my muscles will stretch and not stiffen up, but although I see some progress, I'm not there yet. Any advice? It takes months to be able to do some poses. Years for others. Don't despair. Remember the most important thing about yoga is not the poses themselves, but the purposeful breathing. The poses will happen with time, don't hurry them. -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
... Sorry I haven't been posting very much lately. I'm still working 14 - 16 hours a day 7 days a week and trying to get in my exercising, physical therapy, and learning yoga in all my spare time!! ; I'm still sending purrs for all who need them, and trying to at least spot check posts for anyone in need. Off topic now... I have a question for others here who may do yoga. I've always been very bendy. I have no problems touching my toes or sitting with legs spread and grabbing my feet. However, the girl on the yoga video I have looks like she doesn't have a bone in her body. She sits with her legs straight out in front of her and leans over and rests her face on her knees or stand and bends over forward with her face against her knees. My question is, do you become that limber with continued practice, or is this yoga instructor just double jointed or something? If you do become that limber, how long does it take? I'm practicing through the pain so my muscles will stretch and not stiffen up, but although I see some progress, I'm not there yet. Any advice? Watching Cary, he can do the most amazingly bendy things. He sucks on his toes like its no big deal. He can lift his head so far back it virtually touches his butt. He can, and often does, sit with his feet straight and and has his head touching the ground. He does this like its perfectly normal - because for a baby, it is. But when we stop doing such things, we tighten up and lose the ability. Some people are just naturally bendier than others (I am a bendy person, but it also means I'm forever over-bending joints, which is painful) but if you have been doing bendy things from a young age you don't lose the flexibility. Just look at wha tthose martial arts guys can do - thats because they have been doing it literally for their whole life. Bendy yoga video girl has probably been doing such things for most of her life. You haven't. Its nothing to be ashamed of, but please don't think you ought to be able to be doing what she does, because you almost invaraibly won't be able to. You will become *more* felxible as you get your muscles and tendons used to stretching, but you won't ever be as flexible as someone who has doing extreme bendy stuff for all (or even most) of their life. Like all other things, do it so as to be healthy and happy within yourself, not so that you meet some "I want to be like them" target. Yowie |
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On 2005-01-18, Yowie penned:
Watching Cary, he can do the most amazingly bendy things. He sucks on his toes like its no big deal. He can lift his head so far back it virtually touches his butt. He can, and often does, sit with his feet straight and and has his head touching the ground. He does this like its perfectly normal - because for a baby, it is. I just went to my chiro evaluation today, and what you've just typed reminds me of something discussed there. I (apparently; news to me!) don't have full range of motion in my neck because of some bad posture habits combined with lots of stress, activities that are rough on my body, etc. Anyway, it occurs to me that one reason Cary's body is so flexible is that his spine hasn't had several decades in which to settle into an inflexible shape. I wonder if regular chiro visits would help with yoga? -- monique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!* |
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"Yowie" wrote in message
... Watching Cary, he can do the most amazingly bendy things. He sucks on his toes like its no big deal. He can lift his head so far back it virtually touches his butt. He can, and often does, sit with his feet straight and and has his head touching the ground. I can suck my toe (I don't, but I can!) ; He does this like its perfectly normal - because for a baby, it is. But when we stop doing such things, we tighten up and lose the ability. Some people are just naturally bendier than others (I am a bendy person, but it also means I'm forever over-bending joints, which is painful) but if you have been doing bendy things from a young age you don't lose the flexibility. Just look at wha tthose martial arts guys can do - thats because they have been doing it literally for their whole life. Yeah, I've been bending all my life - having my feet tucked in full lotus is more comfortable to me that sitting "right" in a chair. It's just my hamstrings that need to stretch. Bendy yoga video girl has probably been doing such things for most of her life. You haven't. Its nothing to be ashamed of, but please don't think you ought to be able to be doing what she does, because you almost invaraibly won't be able to. You will become *more* felxible as you get your muscles and tendons used to stretching, but you won't ever be as flexible as someone who has doing extreme bendy stuff for all (or even most) of their life. I know, but the cats make even her look stiff!!! ; Like all other things, do it so as to be healthy and happy within yourself, not so that you meet some "I want to be like them" target. Yowie Yeah, I guess I'm too obsessive-compulsive to just be happy with whatever state I'm currently in. I'll have to practice that aspect of yoga more than any physical position. Hugs, CatNipped |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
news "Yowie" wrote in message ... Watching Cary, he can do the most amazingly bendy things. He sucks on his toes like its no big deal. He can lift his head so far back it virtually touches his butt. He can, and often does, sit with his feet straight and and has his head touching the ground. I can suck my toe (I don't, but I can!) ; Me too! And the distance between my mouth and my toe makes that one quite spectacular I can also horrify people with what I can do with my fingers and toes, but my neck, now thats a definate non-bendy part of me. Probably also due to years of bad posture. Yowie |
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I was thinking, you should get Rodney Yee's book "The Poetry of the Body".
It's really a good read and I think it just has some very excellent points about life in it as well as our bodies. "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Sorry I haven't been posting very much lately. I'm still working 14 - 16 hours a day 7 days a week and trying to get in my exercising, physical therapy, and learning yoga in all my spare time!! ; I'm still sending purrs for all who need them, and trying to at least spot check posts for anyone in need. Off topic now... I have a question for others here who may do yoga. I've always been very bendy. I have no problems touching my toes or sitting with legs spread and grabbing my feet. However, the girl on the yoga video I have looks like she doesn't have a bone in her body. She sits with her legs straight out in front of her and leans over and rests her face on her knees or stand and bends over forward with her face against her knees. My question is, do you become that limber with continued practice, or is this yoga instructor just double jointed or something? If you do become that limber, how long does it take? I'm practicing through the pain so my muscles will stretch and not stiffen up, but although I see some progress, I'm not there yet. Any advice? Hugs, CatNipped |
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