Hello everyone,
I just joined this forum roughly two minutes ago. I really love yoga but feel - as others in this forum have already expressed - quite isolated from any kind of yoga community. Up until now it had not really occured to me that a whole world of yogis was just a few taps away.
I have not really been practicing yoga very long. Actually I mostly began yoga as a way to increase strength and flexibility for added running speed. Several week later, I started to realise that the practice offered me so much more and fit into my life as a nice complement to rigorous exercise and regular meditation.
At the moment I am going to weekly ‘all levels’ classes and enjoy them so immensely. I feel more centered, better equipped to devote more of myself to positivity and have noticed a sense of increased co-ordination. Recently, I have started learning asanas, focusing on how to execute the poses correctly, their purposes/applications and the names in English and Sanskrit. I have an expanse of information and practice ahead of me but just 3 months in, I can feel myself wanting to become a devotee.
In fact, I hope to go to Goa, India, in October to spend a month just learning and taking in lessons. I’d like to prepare myself before I go and maybe even take the initial teacher training course - if I am ready. I have been meditating on a regular basis for about 5 years now and I am hoping that this will be of, atleast some, aid. Maybe not? I really don’t know what to expect. What I do know is that yoga makes me feel great and after practicing 4-6 times a week since I started in December, I have become so much more flexible already. I still lose touch with the breath at times but generally I move fairly slowly into different poses.
OK, wow, I have been rambling! he he. I just wanted to introduce myself and will now go over some of the discussion material on the boards. Please drop me a line, if anyone has any advise for how this newbie should move forward/continue, then I am all ears! I am 30 years old and at my physical prime (to my surprise!). No particular injuries to date.
I look forward to joining you all!
Warm wishes.