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#1

Hi!

My name is Jenny and I’m from the northern part of Sweden. I found this forum in a random search for yoga sites and it seemes like a nice place. :slight_smile:

I’ve been doing yoga for not more than a month, but has already shown great results. I began practicing yoga because I have problems with pain in my back and hips. I am diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which basiclly means; “You’re gonna be in pain for the rest of your life”. There is no cure for it, only means of relief and I found yoga to be the best relief for me.

Like I said, only a month, and I already feel stronger in my back and softer in my hips. Actually, my hips haven’t felt so good in ten years!

I hope to learn much from you guys here, and I hope that you’ll cut me some slack on the language department since English is only my second language. :wink:

Namaste.

/Jenny

#2

[quote=Sunflower;4231]Hi!

My name is Jenny and I’m from the northern part of Sweden. I found this forum in a random search for yoga sites and it seemes like a nice place. :slight_smile:

I’ve been doing yoga for not more than a month, but has already shown great results. I began practicing yoga because I have problems with pain in my back and hips. I am diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which basiclly means; “You’re gonna be in pain for the rest of your life”. There is no cure for it, only means of relief and I found yoga to be the best relief for me.

Like I said, only a month, and I already feel stronger in my back and softer in my hips. Actually, my hips haven’t felt so good in ten years!

I hope to learn much from you guys here, and I hope that you’ll cut me some slack on the language department since English is only my second language. :wink:

Namaste.

/Jenny[/quote]
Welcome to the board Jenny, I too found this site ona random search. Its always great to hear from people who get so much out of discovering Yoga.

#3

Thank you! :slight_smile:

I am a bit surprised over the effect that yoga has on me, but at the same time a little bit bitter that I didn’t think of trying yoga sooner. It fits so well with my over all philosophy on life. Though, in a way, I have been practising yoga for a long time. The breathing, focus, the importance of body awareness and of being in the moment, that it’s “how and why” and not “what” you do that counts… That is how I work with horses, which I have being doing for a very long time.

This may sound silly, but it feels like I found another little piece of ME by finding yoga, just like I found a piece when I started to work with horses.

Kinda cool, huh? :wink:

/Jenny

#4

Welcome! I just joined a couple days ago! :slight_smile:

#5

Hello Jenny and welcome to the forum!:slight_smile:

#6

Thank you QueenMaa and xela! :slight_smile:

#7

I had a similiar enlightening moment. I had spent so long weight lifting, focussing on body image and the goal of changing my body. I couldn’t go more than 2 days without working out, once I discovered Yoga, I no longer felt the need to lift and eat like crazy. I accepted myself and learned to appreciate what I have instead of what I have not, or who I am, instead of who I am not. It really was a load off my mind.

#8

It makes you feel alive, doesn’t it? I let go of my obsession with how I looked and what I didn’t have and all those stressful things when my mum died. Now when some time has passed since her death, I feel that letting go of certain things releases so much energy and self awareness that I couldn’t access the first 4 years after her death. But now I can and yoga is a wonderful way of channeling that energy into something… I don’t know what to call it… Something meaningful, something that helps me grow as a person.

If what I’m saying doesn’t make sense, I’ll just blame it on the fact that it’s 1.40 AM here. :smiley:

#9

When I started to do Yoga, I tried to continue weight training as well. Now I know that there are Pro athletes that do both but I find them to be the complete opposite of each other. I just got to the point where I would be doing bow pose or some other back bend and my shoulders would be so stiff from the previous day of weights, I had to choose which one to drop and it wasn’t hard. I looked forward to my Yoga sessions, I felt obligated to weight train.

#10

So true. I used to have to force myself to go running or go to the gym, but with yoga, I can’t wait to get home from work and get on the mat!

#11

I still jog. I know jogging tends to tighten up your leg muscles but I find a lot of comparisions between jogging and Yoga. Just the way you can get away, unless you live in a large city, then its kinda hard but I’m surrounded by mountains. I find when I climb a large hill and reach the top, the high I get is very much like the high I get from being able to hold a tough pose for an extended amount of time.

#12

The thing with dynamic exercises is that they belong more to the raja guna than sattwa. That is not bad, all gunas have their proper place in the order of the universe. Still, I found that strenght and endurance training raised my vitality to a level where it was very hard to control it. I felt animal urges, to mate, to fight, to run, to win. All these are needed on a certain level in order to have a mundane life. But when they get out of control than it is trouble.
I found that yoga can calm down my troubled waters. It gives a sense of physical well being without agitatation and willfullness. And it acts on my whole life, not just aspects of my life (appereance, strenght, endurance)
I met yoga ten years ago … but I was not prepared. Now I think I am, and I am going to stick with it by all means.

#13

The runners high … I had it too. It is endorphines in your brain. It is a harmless way of doping. :slight_smile: But it is just as addictive. I got very nervous and jumpy when I had to skip my jogging sessions. Since I do yoga, I jog less, not because I think it is bad, but I realised I have some postural problems, and those must be taken care of first.