I did my best ever result in wheel last Saturday. The instructor, who is a friend of mine said it looked much more like wheel and less like a staple.
You made me laugh, JustinTime!
Thanks for the kind words, Louise.
And Mike, congrats! That’s cool. I’m a big fan of the wheel pose and wonder whether I look like a staple or a wheel. Maybe I’ll ask my teacher!
The name of the wheel pose confused me when I first started doing yoga because as a little girl I used to do something similar (as many little girls do), but we called it a “bridge.” Now I’ve got it straight!
Welcome to YogaForums.com Holly! I think you now hold the record for the number of posts added to an introduction thread.
I am glad that you are off to a great start!
Please, keep sharing and adding your fun voice to our community 
Thank you very much, Nichole. This is turning out to be a good place for me for a couple of reasons. One, it’s just nice to be here. There are lots of friendly people who are excited about yoga. And two, this is keeping me from gushing about yoga too much to my husband who is probably getting sick of hearing about it! lol
Cheers!
So was it wheel or staple ?
[quote=JustinTime;13519]Some zeal is alright but too much turns people into zealots - definitely not a good thing in whatever system of belief/philosophy.
How long have you known? Relax your forehead.;)[/quote]
thank you ver much for helping me crushing my ego
no fun to be with someone like me who is too serious about yoga
I am just about ready to trade love for peace also
namaste Louise
I keep forgetting to ask, Mike! But I’m at least happy that you’re looking more wheelish than stapley. (Yeah, fun made up words!)
[quote=louise molenkamp;13660]thank you ver much for helping me crushing my ego
no fun to be with someone like me who is too serious about yoga
I am just about ready to trade love for peace also
namaste Louise[/quote]
Hello Luise-camp-of-the-mills,
I bring you either good or bad tidings, depending on your perception:
I did no such thing as crushing your ego! Look, see for yourself:
(by Luise molenkamp)No, i think your ego is there for a reason . if you like to crush it, your on your own here brother. there are some things you just have to do on your own.
See?
Anyway, I don’t know you from Eve(it should be ‘Adam’ but I want to honour your femaleness), and I wonder if it would be right to crush, or help crushing, other people’s ego when one doesn’t know them at all. (It might be irrresponsible, even despicable to do so.)Of course, we are prone to think we do know - constantly!:(And this is one of the negative aspects of virtuality as well (as alluded to in another of my posts floating around in this virtual soup).
As for ‘just about being ready to trade love for peace’ - that is a very tall order, very few are ready for that; we like to think so frequently under various kinds of emotional duress, but we can’t help being drawn more towards love than peace, simply because there seems to be more action, more movement, and to be engaged thus therefore tends to make us feel more alive. Which seems to be what most people go for. When they are alive.
Of course, this is easy for me to say from the vantage point of more advanced age than you.
Greetings, and may we all be allowed to reach that ultimate state of love which is peace!
So did you ask ?
She said not to worry about how I look, just to keep working with the pose and pushing a little outside my comfort zone. A typical yoga answer!
Yeh, I’m not worried either, but ain’t you curious ???
Hell yeah I’m curious!
BTW, tell the man of yours that real men do yoga (and not just for the eye candy)
I love your reference to a “Purple Yoga Mat”! The first mat I ever practiced on (over 15 years ago now) was a delightful purple!
I too fell in love with yoga deeply, just three years ago, I left a 17 year career in banking to open my own yoga center. Yoga is amazing, and it is amazing to find something you love so much that also supports you>:grin:
Mike, I have told him, but I think the biggest things that keep him from doing yoga (which I have gotten him to try!) are that he’s intimidated by the fact that he’s not very flexible. And also, he finds yoga “boring,” something I totally don’t get! He does, at least, recognize that yoga feels good after doing it. So that’s something.
Forestsprite, it’s awesome (and fairly inspirational!) that you left banking to open a yoga studio. That’s just fabulous! Maybe someday…!
In 2004 when I started I had crap flexibility, nowadays the guys in my bicycle club say I’m double jointed. It was about 6 months after I started before I saw someone who was worse than me at yoga. And the other week I got dagger eyes from a young lady cos I was heaps better than her ha ha.
Perhaps your yoga is a bit whatever from his view point, take him to something else, perhaps dynamic hatha ('cus spelling)
BTW, have you sprung him looking, or is he good at not getting caught? Of course he was just noticing how much better your form was than hers.
It must be sweet after all your hard work to finally be the more flexible one! hehe
My husband actually pointed out to me afterward the girls he had been looking at (He was watching their forms…obviously! yeah right!). Actually, for the most part I would suspect that he was concentrating too hard on trying to follow along with the class most of the time that he didn’t have much time for looking!
I notice participants that are better at yoga than me, kinda spurs me along to get better at it.