So I recently came across this website that explained how yoga can be helpful for athletes. And I already knew a lot of it. And have been loving yoga. However, I found yogaletics and it’s supposed to be a get after it type of workout. But I was wondering if you still get the relaxation from these videos. As well as gettig in touch with yourself. Which I am feeling from my workouts now. I was thinking of giving thEm a try does anyone have any observations?
Yoga can be very helpful for athletes. But I like to keep my yoga and workouts separate. I feel you loose some of the peacefulness yoga has to offer and the mind set for working out is different than for yoga, at least for me. In a workout I want to push myself, but in yoga I want to practice doing less to balance things out.
I have never tried Yogaletics so can’t speak to that, but I’d recommend doing a workout and following it up with yoga. When you try to do too many things at once, you do them all mediocre.
I haven’t reviewed the offering in question so it’s not appropriate to evaluate it.
Again I can’t stress enough that asana is not Yoga. Asana is contained within Yoga and is but a miniscule part of the whole. That is not to say “don’t do asana” or “don’t enjoy it” or “asana has no purpose”.
However the purpose of asana is not a “work out”. The issue I have with some of the offerings for men or for athletes is that by design they actually rob the practitioner of the robust nature of the practice, its fullness or completeness, its efficacy in every part of living, its ability to be used by human beings as a system for growth.
When students ask me these sorts of questions I suggest they look for teachers from a lineage, who are actually living the work (or practicing what they preach), who teach from integrity, where the practice itself has actual palpable effect on their living.
In my view Yoga should not be something that exacerbates someone’s nature or squirts fuel on a raging fire. Nor should it be something that adds sloth to a student’s torpor. When an aggressive person takes on an aggressive practice (or a sedentary person takes on a sloooow practice) that is exacerbating to their nature. It is not the practice that should be balanced it is that the practice should be balancING.
My guess is that the product you mention only has exercise and that those movements may be (loosely) based on some form of asana practice. Whether that practice contains more and therefore works to unify mind, body and spirit into the doing…well try it out and let me know.