I just would like to thank the creators of the forum and everyone who participating in the forum.
Thank you for your wish to discover yourself, thank you for improving the world this way!
Thank you for your wonderful stories and interesting insight in your threads!
We are a yoga family:) I’m thinking and praying about all of your every day!
Namste
Yes! Agreed!
Thank you!
woot
I love that you initiated this thread, CityMonk because I was thinking the very same thing earlier today. I am very grateful for this forum and its moderators–past and present. David, we really do appreciate your taking on this endeavor!
Grateful to you indeed! Many thanks.
[QUOTE=zo_manik;34572]I love that you initiated this thread, CityMonk because I was thinking the very same thing earlier today. I am very grateful for this forum and its moderators–past and present. David, we really do appreciate your taking on this endeavor![/QUOTE]
It seems that threads like “the forum sucks” are more popular:))
Again - thank you all to participate in the forum!
I really have to say a double thank you to the forum. Since my knee injury almost/about 3 weeks ago, I have spent so much more time on here, reading and thinking about things which are being posted. Instead of watching copious amounts of brain-killing television (though I am addicted to Bravo’s “Work of Art” and ShowTime’s “True Blood”), I have been on here more frequently as well as researching many of the concepts/terms on here that I don’t understand/never heard of. I love this community. My husband (jokingly) calls it my cult! He kids, he does Fantasy Football and has his own forum-devotion made up of Phish fans (some very insightful threads on there, too).
My husband is a Phish fan too! Could never quite understand it though. LOL
It is amazing what can be learned from this community.
Are we talking about Prog rock now! Count me in!
Ha haaaa! You might have to go solo on this conversation, YogiAdam. I have tried so hard to like Phish, but their songs are so long and ambling (imo, of course). I’m sure live and in the flesh I would love them, but through the computer/car speakers/mp3 earbuds I just can’t handle it!
The forum is phantasytour.com, you can click on Phish and surprisingly you can find a huge array of topics beyond just Phish Phan talk. Before my honey b and I were married I created an account to get people’s opinions for certain honeymoon hotspots. They were actually incredibly helpful. I still pop in on occasion, too. They also seem to know breaking news before yahoo or msn ever posts it online, including the whole Phish reunion tour, which of course skewed most conversations towards the tour itself and that’s when I went on Phish forum sabbatical lol!
Yoga forum most of the times brings forth such a wide spectrum of views that our own single dimension thoughts enrich into multi-dimensional. Not that one can relate with each opinion/ comment/ contribution; but the fact that someone is out there holding that view is fascinating.
We have often talked here about a meta-mind or Universal Mind. This forum gives a glimpse of the greatness of that virtual collective mind. Of course, a few times an individual mind can be seen sinking to a lower low. But in the ever-rising brickwork of a thread that is dwarfed quickly.
But what I find most rewarding is the tipping point in following the thread where one feels an urge to react. Reaction requires articulation, that forces thinking and composing and balancing the fact & fiction in our own understanding. More than what I have written here, I am happy for what I didn’t or abandoned for want of enough self-conviction. My sincere thanks to the Forum for that and to many contributors who make visiting the forum a daily priority.
[QUOTE=Suhas Tambe;35279] More than what I have written here, I am happy for what I didn’t or abandoned for want of enough self-conviction. My sincere thanks to the Forum for that and to many contributors who make visiting the forum a daily priority.[/QUOTE]
Indeed! I visit it every day too! So many different insight regarding themes that are interesting for me. So many interesting people who share my point of view:)
Its really a great place for all of those who are seeking for authentic information on yoga. Thanks to the creators of this forum!
My gratitude too, for those supporting the forum and the community here, both presently and in the past. My gratitude to David Chapman, the current owner and operator, for continuing to make this forum community available for us to share in. Many hours of[I] seva[/I] have been offered here by those looking to care for and sustain this community. This is true for those with individual financial interests and those without, as [I]seva[/I] is based in intention.
I would like to share a quick slice of the history of YogaForums.com: The forum was originally created in 2002 for Mukunda Stiles, by his student Chandra, as way to share his Spiritual mentoring with those seeking this connection, to share his Structural Yoga Therapy offerings, and to connect his SYT-program students from around the globe.
The very first threads being shared here were the years of “question and answer” emails between Mukunda and his SYT students–they were copied and pasted into threads as the foundation of today’s forum. These threads are still available for reading, found as the early threads of the Spirit’s Path forum and in theMukunda Stiles: Yoga Therapy Q&A forum.
YogaForums.com was sold in 2006 to a private business owner, after it became too large of a project for Chandra to maintain as [I]seva.[/I] The domain and the forum contents were sold again in October 2008 to David, the current owner.
And that brings us up-to-date 
With a deep bow to the sangha,
Nichole
Thanks for the history Nicole. This forum has helped me in huge ways. Before discovering the forum, yoga for me was a great way to exercise and get flexible. It wasn’t long before I learned that it was the tip of the iceberg and the forum has added to my (re)discovery of self. Nice to find so many people who think the way I do, and some who don’t.
It is addictive.
Thank you for the history! It is very interesting to know!