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Liz G.
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What type of yoga do you practice?

posted over 3 years ago | Report

I was trained in Hatha yoga, and my teachers taught us a technique called Inner Fire. It's a set of postures that has a slow build up to a peak pose, then a slow break down, like a triangle. I love hatha yoga for it's focus on breath work, purification and meditation.

I notice that with athletes and in the northeast US, people are into methods that I would consider heavier or more hard core (sorry I can't think of another word to describe it and it's too early to be thinking), such as Ashtanga, Iyengar and Bikram. I love hearing about what types of yoga people practice and why... everyone is different and I think it reflects each one's personality.

What kind of yoga do you practice?

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  • Maya N.
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    I like a lot of different types but my favorite is probably yin. I love it because it gives me such a great stretch and because it moves so slowly, I feel I can really just relax mentally and get into my yoga workout.

    posted over 3 years ago | Report

  • Courtney B.
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    I do Vinyasa. I've never done anything else, so I don't know the differences. But I would say that it does reflect my personality because it's not at all focused on meditation. I am relaxed when it's over, but the core of the class is not relaxing... It's more of a really awesome, exerting, cleansing workout. If that makes sense.

    posted over 3 years ago | Report

  • Pam R.
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    yin on friday evenings. a nice end to the workweek since it is relaxing and meditative. yin also stretches the connective tissue which has helped me stay injury-free especially when my run volume increased a lot. for a yang practice, i generally do vinyasa-based power yoga and it is also my source of strength training

    posted over 3 years ago | Report

  • Cj J.
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    Ashtanga, 5-6 mornings a week - full primary series.

    I like the flow, and the continuous challenges that I discover in each posture, even when I think I've coined it! It makes me strong mentally and physically.

    I consider Ashtanga to be a dynamic form of yoga rather than "Hardcore" - It's very meditative and calming though, it's not like doing a workout in a gym.

    posted about 3 years ago | Report

  • Erika
    Erika Sendmail

    hatha ftw.

    posted about 3 years ago | Report

  • Sarah C.
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    Bikram Yoga is the only kind I have done. I love the heat--although I didn't think I would. I crave the repetition and dialogue. One of the hardest things I have ever done, but that is why I keep going back. If I can hold those poses in that heat --I can do anything. It makes you feel so good ---esp. when you walk out into the cool air outside the room.

    posted over 2 years ago | Report

  • Pip G.
    Pip G. Sendmail

    Ashtanga

    posted over 2 years ago | Report

  • Mike I.
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    Ashtanga. Primary series as often as possible.

    posted over 2 years ago | Report

  • Sabrina S.
    Sabrina S. Sendmail

    When I was practicing alot last year, I would go to Vinyasa classes and I really loved Ashtanga, however I couldn't make it to the Ashtanga classes as much as I wanted. I also loved heated Yoga. There was a studio (it closed) that would practice in 99 degrees (not as hot as Bikram) and would do Vinyasa style yoga in the heat. I loved that class. At home I usually practice Vinyasa because I love sun salutations and am most familar with this style.

    posted over 2 years ago | Report

  • CristinaPRO
    Cristina Sendmail

    Vinyasa.

    posted over 2 years ago | Report

  • Meira D.
    Meira D. Sendmail

    hatha and vinyasa. I love Yoga but since i don't have a membership to the ymca anymore it's hard to find an area at my house to do it in. Last year i was doing three hours of yoga or more a week it was great.

    posted about 2 years ago | Report

  • Chris S.
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    Ashtanga. I have moved from the studio to a David Swenson DVD at home. Full primary series. Slowly trying to do the entire practice by memory. Some day this will be a 5 days a week thing

    Its a love-love-hate relationship.

    Nice one year old conversation string.

    posted about 2 years ago | Report

  • Ally S.PRO
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    Bikram yoga 3 times and week and one vinyasa class

    posted about 2 years ago | Report

  • Kathy
    Kathy Sendmail

    Ashtanga - 1/2 primary 3x/week (non running days). I'm about to give myself a new pose (so CRIM of me! :)). Oh, and to blow the theory, I'm in the south. Very south. Of Mexico. Like the Caribbean south. :)

    posted about 2 years ago | Report

  • Medeya
    Medeya Sendmail

    I just do traditional yoga with Mandy Ingber's CD. I just got into it and I love it.

    posted almost 2 years ago | Report

  • Ash R.
    Ash R. Sendmail

    Mostly Vinasya i love the flow work, I also do the podcast work from Baptiste Power yoga!

    posted almost 2 years ago | Report

  • Leslie G.
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    I love, love, love Eoin Finn's "Power Yoga for Happiness" DVD and now that I don't have a big race on my horizon, I'm trying to do it 3 times a week or so. I own way too many yoga DVDs (from years of, "if I own it, I'll do it eventually, right?") and I think Eoin's teaching style is perfect for me. (Anyone want a gently-used to not-ever-used yoga DVD or two? Let me know...)

    posted almost 2 years ago | Report

  • Leslie G.
    Leslie G. Sendmail

    P.S. Eoin's yoga is Vinyasa Flow style.

    posted almost 2 years ago | Report

  • Zeon K.
    Zeon K. Sendmail

    I practice Naked Yoga for Men. Its basically a Hatha or Vinyasa Flow. That is my ultimate practice but it is not always available. When it is not I do a morning practice or a Sunday afternoon practice at Gold's in SF.

    posted over 1 year ago | Report

  • Karoline P.
    Karoline P. Sendmail

    Bikram! I love it!

    posted over 1 year ago | Report

  • Ren K.PRO
    Ren K. Sendmail

    Inyengar - put together my own routines for special needs based on Friend's therapeutic yoga, too.

    posted over 1 year ago | Report

  • User_avatar Deleted User

    Kriya Yoga.

    A very good book to be read is "A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya", by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

    posted about 1 year ago | Report

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