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Different Yoga Styles
By: yogasimplifiedmethod Date: October 12, 2022, 7:34 am
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Go through the list of styles in your manual, and do a bit of
research on them. For instance, Power Yoga by Bryan Kest. Notice
the pace, poses, cueing, environment, breathing, etc., and write
a quick paragraph about the particular style of yoga in your
response. Then, dig a little more to find a style that is not
listed in the manual that you found maybe funny, entertaining,
confusing, enduring, compelling, etc. Something you may want to
try in the future or give a hard pass. Either way, just jot down
a style that stood out to you. One from the manual and one from
research. Enjoy!
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: oliviamarotta Date: October 15, 2022, 1:10 pm
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Kundalini Yoga - by Yogi Bajan
The type of yoga from the manual that I chose to research is
Kundalini yoga, which was created by Yogi Bagan. Kundalini
combines breath, movement and sound to release trapped energy
from the body. In Sanskrit, kundalini translates to “coiled
snake” which refers to the idea that we all have latent female
energy gathered at the base of our spine and, through the
practice of Kundalini, we bring that energy up our spine through
the seven chakras, and out the crown of our head. The ultimate
goal of Kundalini is to increase self-awareness by silencing the
mind and unblocking your chakras so that your vital energy can
flow freely through breathing techniques, asana, chanting and
meditation.
The ancient teachings of Kundalini yoga were kept secret and
exclusviely taught to royalty and nobility for thousands of
years until Bagan brought it to the West in the late 1960s.
Bagan began to teach Kundalini publican in the US and it is now
one of the most popular styles of yoga among celebrities.
Health benefits:
~Strength building
~Improves mood (increased production of serotonin)
~Lowers blood pressure and heart rate
~Enhanced memory and focus
~Boosted metabolism and digestive system
Format:
~Opening chant and spinal warm-up
~Kriya - postures paired with breathing techniques (breath,
posture, sound)
~Closing meditation or song
*Emphasis on meditation and breathing through mantras and mudras
It is common for yogis to wear white to a Kundalini class as it
is thought to expand your aura by an extra foot, not only
providing more protection from the harmful energy surrounding
you, but projecting positive energy out into the world.
Aerial yoga
I chose to explore Aerial yoga as an untraditional style of yoga
because it is one of my favorite formats to participate it and I
wanted to learn more about the history and benefits of it.
Aerial yoga combines traditional asana and yoga philosophies
with aerial arts. Silk fabrics are hung from above to allow
people to access new movements and inversions while minimizing
the pressure that is applied to joints and certain areas of the
body. The additional support of the aerial hammock allows for
expanded mobility and flexibility to reach more challenging
poses, such as headstands and inversions, with greater ease.
Aerial yoga can have therapeutic and restorative applications
and is recommended for those who suffer from spinal or joint
pain.
Aerial yoga gained momentum in western culture over the last 20
years. The yoga swing was developed based on an apparatus that
BK Iyengar used to support inversions and focus on alignment.
Benefits:
~Improved flexibility, stability and balance
~Spine and joint decompression
~Reduced risk factors for heart disease
~Improved circulation
~Improved focus and brain function
~Stress relief
~Strengthens core
Contraindications:
~Pregnancy, people with eye conditions such as cataracts or
detached retina, as well as people with unregulated blood
pressure
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: Kelli Cook Date: October 15, 2022, 7:54 pm
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I found myself down a few rabbit holes with the assignment! I
never realized how many different styles yoga had. I have
dabbled in a few and even been to some yoga retreats that had
many of these offered but I never really understood them in
detail or realized how many there were. I read about many of
these. I swear I could just read and watch videos on yoga
topics all day long now haha! I wish I had the time to play and
practice with them all.
The style I choose to write about and focus on is "Yin Yoga". I
have always been drawn to this style. The stretching component
has been something that my body always craves and mentally, Yin
Yoga has always just calmed my mind and relaxed me so much. The
best night of sleep happens after a Yin class! This style is one
I have thought about teaching if I were to teach after this.
Yin yoga is referred to as “the other half of yoga” by some, as
it focuses on the yin practice, while the more vigorous and
dynamic physical practices focus on the yang. This course,
refers back to the yin and yang, which embodies balance by
incorporating opposite forces
Yin yoga involves mainly passive stretches on the floor that are
held for longer periods of time (45 seconds to 2 minutes). More
advanced practitioners sometimes hold poses for as long as five
minutes.
Benefits:
Improves circulation and flexibility
Releases fascia and connective tissue tightness
Releases built-up emotions - it 100% does this for me!!
Best for: People who need a set time to slow down from
fast-paced living, or a time to destress. This is also a great
supplemental practice to anyone who practices a more fast-paced
type of yoga.
What to expect: A slow-paced class that is spent on the floor
with lots of hip-opening poses. It’s meant to physically,
mentally, and emotionally release and balance you from your yang
practice.
Unique Yoga Style that I did not realize actually happened in a
studio - "Noga" Nude Yoga!! There are studios in NYC and LA
(of course! lol). The article I read said you can’t deny that
there’s something completely liberating about stripping down to
nothing and letting go of yourself for an hour. And that
physical sense of freedom is what naked yoga is about. Seems
pretty intense and obviously intimidating. Still a little shock
this takes place outside of like a nudist colony, but kind if
cool, and like they said I am sure very liberating! How does it
work, you walk in, strip down and then walk into the studio onto
your mat?? Does anyone every know of someone who has
experienced this?? I am curious!
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: Niki Ehrenkranz Date: October 16, 2022, 6:09 pm
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Chair Yoga
I chose to research chair yoga from our manual. Lakshmi Voelker
founded chair yoga to assist her young client with arthritis.
Chair yoga created an accessible practice to those who have a
limiting physical, mental, or other fitness challenge.
There are many benefits of chair yoga, it is very accessible,
inclusive, can be done anywhere, builds muscle and bone mass,
relaxing, and energizing.
Chair yoga starts with a slow steady breath adding small
movements, it has a very similar integration as a vinyasa flow.
I was not expecting the teacher to cue Warrior II, your front
thigh is on the chair for full support. This seems like a great
way for a beginner to feel a pose with support. As strength is
built you can remove the chair or continue with it.
VOGA! Yoga with vogueing. Founded by JuJu Murrell who is a
fitness influencer and London artist, highly influenced from
Madonna. Voga is a mashup of expressive poses and yoga movement
on the beat. Looks like you flow through poses and hit it with
attitude, dancing along the way. She does link breath to
movement.
Some key poses are Queenie (mountain), vogue express (warrior
II), show jewels, serpent.
Seems like a fun energetic dance class full of attitude!
At first I was like what in the world is this, the videos were
making me laugh, but after researching i'd probably try it.
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: Erin Curro Date: October 17, 2022, 12:47 pm
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Alternative Types of Yoga
From the Manual:
What comes as probably no surprise to anyone, I elected from the
manual to explore Yoga Therapy more deeply. 😊 I
immediately researched The International Association of Yoga
Therapists (IAYT) and connected with the definition of Yoga
Therapy as “the process of empowering individuals to progress
toward improved health and well-being through the application of
the teachings and practices of Yoga.” I love how yoga therapy is
focuses on self-empowerment allowing the person seeking care to
be the expert while with the support of the yoga therapist
personalizing their yoga practice to best meet their wellness
goals. Yoga therapy deeply resonates with my clinical work in
the field of psychology it’s just like Des’ ice cream metaphor,
just a different flavor. However, at it’s core maintains the
same types of ingredients. Similar to psychology, yoga therapy
is a living art form that focuses on core tenants of growth and
change, holistic mind-body healing and self-actualization. The
more and more I deepen my own clinical practice, the more I
incorporate aspects of yoga. I also really like that yoga
therapy is for everybody and every body and is supportive for
all persons across various salient identities and diversity
variables and focuses on meeting them and their whole person
where they are at and that the healing is more than just the
physical practice. For those curious to also dive deeper, I am
linking the website: Contemporary Definitions of Yoga Therapy -
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)
Des, I cannot wait to learn more from you both now and in the
future. I am so grateful that our YTT encompasses your personal
and professional lived experiences. It is so invaluable and I
really admire you and the work you do. 😊
Couples Yoga:
For other modern types of yoga, I explored couples/partner yoga.
At our former studio, I remember they had workshops for these
types of classes, which I did not get to attend. However, I
always thought it was intriguing and a fun and unique way to
connect with a loved one and deepen the relationship. Which when
I explored further, is one of the benefits highlighted, to
deepen and strengthen the bond and improve the relationship
while allowing two people to connect moving together through a
series of poses. So of course, this reminds me so much of
Couples Therapy where both parties have to practice bolstering
their active listening and communication skills while also
learning how to be attune to theirs and the others triggers,
body cues (verbal and nonverbal), how to regulate their
emotions, respect themselves and each other (including health
and wellbeing), develop trust, and act in accordance with their
values. I love that couples yoga targets the exact same
principles but does this through movement, which is so healing
and often times what people are wanting more of and lacking.
It’s exactly why outside of therapy we recommend couples do more
activities together that help them reconnect. Now it sounds like
I am going to be recommending couples yoga haha.
Here is a YouTube video if folks are interested:
HTML https://youtu.be/ptKO_Md_CWY
Here is also a great website I found:
Couples Yoga Guide: Benefits, Poses, and Tips - Yoga Beyond The
Studio
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: heidi91@comcast.net Date: October 18, 2022, 6:36 pm
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I chose restorative yoga. It encourages physical , mental and
emotional relaxation. It’s a gentle supportive yoga where the
poses are held for 5 or minutes each. It activates the
parasympathetic nervous system helps the body test and heal and
restore balance. The relaxation pose helps slow your breathe and
reduce blood pressure and a feeling of calmness. Some of the
benefits relaxes your mind improves your sleep and it’s gentle
on your body. Some great poses are fish pose, Childs pose,
corpse pose and legs up the wall.
Wow! There’s so many different types of yoga!! I chose a fairly
new one and one I may try. “Laughter yoga”
It was developed by madan kataria a family physician in India in
1995. Since laughter is universal laughter yoga is accessible to
many people. Since this is so new there is not a lot of research
but it suggests laughter yoga may help reduce stress and improve
sleep and lessen depression. Using light hearted playful
movement with breathing exercises to encourage laughter. The
patterns are to encourage unintentional laughter along with
clapping and chanting. Laughter is the best medicine😊
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: wantalli Date: October 19, 2022, 4:13 pm
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[quote author=Erin Curro link=topic=12.msg125#msg125
date=1666028853]
Alternative Types of Yoga
From the Manual:
What comes as probably no surprise to anyone, I elected from the
manual to explore Yoga Therapy more deeply. 😊 I
immediately researched The International Association of Yoga
Therapists (IAYT) and connected with the definition of Yoga
Therapy as “the process of empowering individuals to progress
toward improved health and well-being through the application of
the teachings and practices of Yoga.” I love how yoga therapy is
focuses on self-empowerment allowing the person seeking care to
be the expert while with the support of the yoga therapist
personalizing their yoga practice to best meet their wellness
goals. Yoga therapy deeply resonates with my clinical work in
the field of psychology it’s just like Des’ ice cream metaphor,
just a different flavor. However, at it’s core maintains the
same types of ingredients. Similar to psychology, yoga therapy
is a living art form that focuses on core tenants of growth and
change, holistic mind-body healing and self-actualization. The
more and more I deepen my own clinical practice, the more I
incorporate aspects of yoga. I also really like that yoga
therapy is for everybody and every body and is supportive for
all persons across various salient identities and diversity
variables and focuses on meeting them and their whole person
where they are at and that the healing is more than just the
physical practice. For those curious to also dive deeper, I am
linking the website: Contemporary Definitions of Yoga Therapy -
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)
Des, I cannot wait to learn more from you both now and in the
future. I am so grateful that our YTT encompasses your personal
and professional lived experiences. It is so invaluable and I
really admire you and the work you do. 😊
Couples Yoga:
For other modern types of yoga, I explored couples/partner yoga.
At our former studio, I remember they had workshops for these
types of classes, which I did not get to attend. However, I
always thought it was intriguing and a fun and unique way to
connect with a loved one and deepen the relationship. Which when
I explored further, is one of the benefits highlighted, to
deepen and strengthen the bond and improve the relationship
while allowing two people to connect moving together through a
series of poses. So of course, this reminds me so much of
Couples Therapy where both parties have to practice bolstering
their active listening and communication skills while also
learning how to be attune to theirs and the others triggers,
body cues (verbal and nonverbal), how to regulate their
emotions, respect themselves and each other (including health
and wellbeing), develop trust, and act in accordance with their
values. I love that couples yoga targets the exact same
principles but does this through movement, which is so healing
and often times what people are wanting more of and lacking.
It’s exactly why outside of therapy we recommend couples do more
activities together that help them reconnect. Now it sounds like
I am going to be recommending couples yoga haha.
Here is a YouTube video if folks are interested:
HTML https://youtu.be/ptKO_Md_CWY
Here is also a great website I found:
Couples Yoga Guide: Benefits, Poses, and Tips - Yoga Beyond The
Studio
[/quote]
Erin I love that you chose couples yoga, and everything you
highlighted about it’s benefits. I very loosely try and get
Chris to play around and try poses with me, and at the very
least it’s good for a couple giggles, but it is a great activity
to practice being present together.
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: wantalli Date: October 19, 2022, 4:35 pm
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Acro Yoga:
This is a very physical practice that combines yoga and
acrobatics. It is typically done in pairs, or in groups, and
involves one or more participants being lifted off the ground.
This style of yoga draws on the traditions of circus acts,
cheerleading and dance acro.
The 2 primary formats for acro yoga are:
-“L-basing” where the base lies on their back while supporting
the fliers weight with their legs, creating an “L shape” with
their body, and moving them through time and space.
-Standing Acro where the base stand up and relies mostly on the
hands and shoulders strength to support the fliers weight.
The first format allows for more air time, while standing yoga
typically means shorter air time.
Brief history sited from from Google:
“L-basing practice was pioneered by one of the founders of
modern yoga as exercise, Krishnamacharya, in 1938, though
without using acroyoga's terminology.[4]
There are many schools of Acroyoga. The original two schools
were AcroYoga Montreal and AcroYoga Inc. AcroYoga Montreal was
founded by Eugene Poku and Jessie Goldberg in 2003;[4] they had
informally used the term AcroYoga since 1999.[15] Also in 2003,
AcroYoga International was founded by Jason Nemer and Jenny
Sauer-Klei in California USA.
This practice blends acrobatics, yoga and healing arts, with the
focus initially mainly on therapeutic flying and yoga. Nemer and
Sauer-Klei were the first to codify Acroyoga practice in 2006.
They trained and made practice manuals for the public, trained
teachers and traveled the world sharing the practice. AcroYoga
Inc. had by 2017 certified around a thousand Acroyoga teachers
worldwide. The focus of the practice has shifted more to the
Solar - acrobatic - part of Acroyoga.”
I love the idea of acro yoga. I complete admire the skill and
strength it takes to support another persons body weight,and
likewise I also respect the control and trust it takes learn
this style and trust your acros partner.
(I have frequently “make” Chris try “L-basing” poses with me...
so far we have nailed partner crow! Lol)
Contraindications: because this style is a very physical form of
yoga injury prevention and safety are a top concern.
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: erin_kelly Date: October 19, 2022, 7:06 pm
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Chair yoga -
I chose to research chair yoga from the manual. Lakshmi Voelker
came up with chair yoga when one of her students became sick
with arthritis and could not do yoga poses the same way she
could before. She developed an entire sequence that her student
could practice on a chair—and she hasn’t stopped practicing and
teaching Chair Yoga since. Lakshmi developed chair yoga in 1982.
It’s an accessible, inclusive way for yogis living with physical
and weight differences to gain all the benefits of yoga, without
stressing their joints, supporting their body weight, or
worrying about balance.
I found this quote from Lakshmi and she said “I love Chair Yoga
because it’s accessible to me in any chair, anywhere,” Lakshmi
says. “Anyplace I go, whenever I sit on a chair, I come into
Sitting Mountain immediately. That always guides me to remember
my roots.”
I found chair yoga interesting in my research because you really
can practice it anywhere if you have a chair. It is accessible
to anyone and everyone. YOu can experience a deeper stretch in
chair yoga that deeply benefits your floor practice.
Face Yoga -
I chose to do research on face yoga. I found it interesting and
have heard celebrities do it so I wanted to learn more. Face
yoga was founded by Fumiko Takatsu. Since 2006 Fumiko has
pioneered the unique techniques that make up facial yoga. Face
yoga helps in breaking the patterns of movements through which
we hold tension, like furrowing the brows, tightening the
shoulders, tightening the jaw, etc. by stimulating the lymphatic
system, muscles as well as the skin, relaxing it of its
tension-holding patterns in the process.
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Re: Different Yoga Styles
By: wantalli Date: October 19, 2022, 9:19 pm
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[quote author=Niki Ehrenkranz link=topic=12.msg108#msg108
date=1665961754]
Chair Yoga
I chose to research chair yoga from our manual. Lakshmi Voelker
founded chair yoga to assist her young client with arthritis.
Chair yoga created an accessible practice to those who have a
limiting physical, mental, or other fitness challenge.
There are many benefits of chair yoga, it is very accessible,
inclusive, can be done anywhere, builds muscle and bone mass,
relaxing, and energizing.
Chair yoga starts with a slow steady breath adding small
movements, it has a very similar integration as a vinyasa flow.
I was not expecting the teacher to cue Warrior II, your front
thigh is on the chair for full support. This seems like a great
way for a beginner to feel a pose with support. As strength is
built you can remove the chair or continue with it.
VOGA! Yoga with vogueing. Founded by JuJu Murrell who is a
fitness influencer and London artist, highly influenced from
Madonna. Voga is a mashup of expressive poses and yoga movement
on the beat. Looks like you flow through poses and hit it with
attitude, dancing along the way. She does link breath to
movement.
Some key poses are Queenie (mountain), vogue express (warrior
II), show jewels, serpent.
Seems like a fun energetic dance class full of attitude!
At first I was like what in the world is this, the videos were
making me laugh, but after researching i'd probably try it.
[/quote]
VOGA... Sp interesting, sounds like such a good time, I agree
like silly at first glance but you know it has to be a good
time!
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