Yoga and other forms of meditation have been banned in Alabama public schools since 1993.
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If You’ve Ever Tried to Get Into Yoga, These Tweets Will Make a Lot of Sense
Have you tried yoga before? I’m not an everyday yoga person by any stretch of the imagination, but I dabble, and I really do enjoy it.
But it sure is hard. Which is why these tweets are so funny.
Because a lot of people want to be into yoga and make it part of their lifestyle, but it takes work – and you know most folks aren’t going to put the time in. Still, we can dream, can’t we?
Enjoy these funny tweets. You might see a little bit of yourself in them…
1. Might want to start slow.
Yoga instructor: *folds herself in triangles like an American flag*
Me: Maybe I'll try the beginner class.
— James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) November 7, 2017
2. You did your best.
one time I tried a yoga class and the instructor said if we got overwhelmed we could go into child’s pose and I immediately went into child’s pose and stayed in it until the end
— Avery Edison (@aedison) June 3, 2018
3. Does this look right?
Yoga Instructor: Ok, I want you to get in to Lotus position.
Me: pic.twitter.com/jUU1u0LR9x— Tim (@Playing_Dad) June 29, 2017
4. Painfully accurate.
Twist and Shout
A Guide to Yoga in Your 40s
— Northern Lights
(@PinkCamoTO) April 28, 2018
5. Ouch…
hey boy, are you yoga because I keep saying I'm going to do you but we both know it's not going to happen
— maura quint (@behindyourback) January 3, 2019
6. I can’t find one…
The yoga teacher said to get into your most comfortable seated position but there weren't any barstools around, I looked.
— Kendra Alvey (@Kendragarden) January 5, 2018
7. What is this for, again?
*interrupts yoga class*
Why are we doing this?— moody monday (@mdob11) August 23, 2014
8. Just remain silent.
In yoga class I spend most of the time stressing out about having to say NAMASTE at the end
— Eliza Bayne (@ElizaBayne) June 21, 2013
9. You blew it.
nothing like a sneeze attack in the middle of my first yoga class to endear myself to all the tall white women
— Karen Chee (@karencheee) August 30, 2018
10. Play dead.
My favourite exercise is the corpse pose in yoga.
It most accurately reflects both my fitness level and how I feel inside.
— Northern Lights
11. That was actually a stupid question.
Not to brag, but I'm the reason the yoga instructor stopped saying "there's no such thing as a stupid question"
— yessica haircut (@hellohappy_time) May 1, 2017
12. I think it is.
Is it yoga if you wear sweatpants all day and then hunch over the garbage can as you eat a taco?
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) August 5, 2015
13. When did this happen?!?!
Bad news, I am no longer allowed to bring Arby's curly fries to share during yoga class.
— Abe Yospe (@Cheeseboy22) June 14, 2018
14. I’m with you on this one.
I want to do yoga except instead of stretching myself I want to lie there while someone does it for me what I'm saying is I want a massage.
— maura quint (@behindyourback) August 31, 2017
15. Gonna be a loooooong week.
I'm 'My abs hurt every time I sneeze from a yoga class THREE DAYS AGO' years old.
— Kendra Alvey (@Kendragarden) March 27, 2019
Are you a yoga master? Maybe just a beginner? Or perhaps you’ve only tried it once or twice?
Let us know in the comments.
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The Psoas Is the Important Muscle Where Your Body Stores Your Deepest Trauma
This is important information for EVERYONE.
Trauma affects people in different ways—physically and psychologically.
But did you know your body may be storing your trauma in a muscle you’ve probably never heard of?
It’s that pesky psoas (SO-az) .
Photo Credit: Pexels, Burst
Your body is built to react to traumatic experiences physically. Think of it as a basis for survival. Have you ever heard stories of how people acquire superhuman strength and can move a car to save someone? Yeah, like that kind of physical.
Even your very cells react to and store trauma.
If these physical responses remain “stuck,” they begin to cause issues. Animals and babies can easily release stress and trauma by literally shaking it off or by crying. But as adults, we learn to hold in our emotions, thus making the process of release much more drawn out and difficult.
How do the psoas muscles come into play?
Your psoas is the strongest muscle in your hip flexors, and it contributes to nearly everything you do— from posture to core strength to moving your legs pretty much at all. Back pain is often related to psoas tightness.
If you’ve ever done yoga, you know that almost everyone has tight hips, even people with flexible hips. Yoga teachers often focus on your hips because they believe, with good reason, that humans “store unexpressed emotions” there.
When you think about it, your hips don’t really move much throughout the day—in the course of normal activity, the rest of your body sort of ends up moving around your hips. That means the moving parts release tension, while the static parts don’t.
Since psoas muscles make up the core of your body, they are most affected by our need to survive (i.e. flight or fight). This is part of why after participating in a yoga or stretching session, we feel calmer and more relieved.
Especially if you spend most of your day sitting down, your psoas is not getting the stretching it needs to release all of the pent up emotion and anxiety of modern life.
Take a look at this video on the proper way to stretch this area.
As you practice, you may find your body shaking on different levels. This is okay, but try not to push too hard. Listen to your body. At times you might feel like a good cry is about to burst through, since your mind and body are open. Allow it to happen. This is the muscle releasing trauma.
The human body is an amazing creation, and we want to keep it that way.
Namaste.
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The Psoas Is the Important Muscle Where Your Body Stores Your Deepest Trauma
This is important information for EVERYONE.
Trauma affects people in different ways—physically and psychologically.
But did you know your body may be storing your trauma in a muscle you’ve probably never heard of?
It’s that pesky psoas (SO-az) .
Photo Credit: Pexels, Burst
Your body is built to react to traumatic experiences physically. Think of it as a basis for survival. Have you ever heard stories of how people acquire superhuman strength and can move a car to save someone? Yeah, like that kind of physical.
Even your very cells react to and store trauma.
If these physical responses remain “stuck,” they begin to cause issues. Animals and babies can easily release stress and trauma by literally shaking it off or by crying. But as adults, we learn to hold in our emotions, thus making the process of release much more drawn out and difficult.
How do the psoas muscles come into play?
Your psoas is the strongest muscle in your hip flexors, and it contributes to nearly everything you do— from posture to core strength to moving your legs pretty much at all. Back pain is often related to psoas tightness.
If you’ve ever done yoga, you know that almost everyone has tight hips, even people with flexible hips. Yoga teachers often focus on your hips because they believe, with good reason, that humans “store unexpressed emotions” there.
When you think about it, your hips don’t really move much throughout the day—in the course of normal activity, the rest of your body sort of ends up moving around your hips. That means the moving parts release tension, while the static parts don’t.
Since psoas muscles make up the core of your body, they are most affected by our need to survive (i.e. flight or fight). This is part of why after participating in a yoga or stretching session, we feel calmer and more relieved.
Especially if you spend most of your day sitting down, your psoas is not getting the stretching it needs to release all of the pent up emotion and anxiety of modern life.
Take a look at this video on the proper way to stretch this area.
As you practice, you may find your body shaking on different levels. This is okay, but try not to push too hard. Listen to your body. At times you might feel like a good cry is about to burst through, since your mind and body are open. Allow it to happen. This is the muscle releasing trauma.
The human body is an amazing creation, and we want to keep it that way.
Namaste.
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‘Rage Yoga’ Lets You Swear and Drink. Sounds Perfect!
Yoga is meant to calm you down while you get a good stretching workout. Once your session is done, you feel relaxed and ready to seize the day.
Well, let me introduce you to Rage Yoga. The end result is also to get you calm and fit but through a much different method. Rage Yoga involves yelling, swearing, and drinking beer. What else can you ask for?!?
Photo Credit: Facebook,Rage Yoga
Rage Yoga founder Lindsay Istace explains the method on her website: “a practice involving stretching, positional exercises and bad humor, with the goal of attaining good health and to become zen AF. More than just a practice, Rage Yoga is an attitude.”
Istace added, “My practice gave me a strong body-mind connection and a new appreciation for my body. I learned how to slow my mind, feel good in my body and built some decent pipes while I was at it. It helped me overcome addiction and weather a lot of personal obstacles. It kept me healthy and sane!”
Ashley Duzich, a Rage Yoga instructor, said, “We are all angry about something and we all have been holding onto an ‘F’-bomb for a little bit too long. So that’s what this does – is – it allows you to have a safe space to let go of your and frustration and rage in a healthy way… and then also wash it all away with some ice cold beer.”
Photo Credit: Facebook,Rage Yoga
As of right now, there are three locations that offer Rage Yoga classes: two in Canada (Calgary and Edmonton) and one in Houston, Texas. I have a feeling this will get very popular very soon.
Namaste, a**hole!
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Science Says Practicing Yoga and Meditation Can Inflate Your Ego
A forthcoming study in Psychological Science confirms what everyone who has a yogi friend already suspects: regular practitioners experience inflated egos.
According to the study, both yoga and meditation increase “self-enhancement,” which is the tendency for people to attach importance to their own actions. In a report, Quartz said that the study followed 93 yoga students over the course of 15 weeks, and measured superiority, communal narcissism, and self-esteem. They repeated the study with 162 meditation students.
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In the hour after their practices, both participants showed significantly higher self-enhancement and were more likely to make statements that implied an inflated sense of self-importance.
Whether this is good or bad is your call, but given that the roots of Hindu and Buddhist yoga is the ideas of quieting the ego and conquering the self, there seems to be little doubt that Western-style yoga seems to be missing the mark.
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A 2012 survey by Yoga Journal found that…
A 2012 survey by Yoga Journal found that only 18 percent of yoga practitioners are men. Many men say they easily get bored doing it or that their bodies aren’t built for pretzellike poses.