Vinyasa Puns

I am super out of shape so I am 90% sure that is the issue, but I wanted to know if this is normal for a person who has never done yoga in their life.

I used the search bar but most of people who asked about muscle soreness stated that they had done yoga before, and vinyasa made them feel sore for the first time. I am a complete newbie to yoga. I had a wonderful time and plan to go back in a few days, but I just wanted to know if this is something I should be concerned about. While I was doing the poses I felt fine. Of course I wasn’t able to do every pose perfectly, but nothing hurt and it was a very satisfying challenge.

What caught me off guard was the way I felt when i woke up this morning, I felt like I got hit by a car or something. I am assuming this is just because it’s my first time exercising in a really long time. I didn’t even feel sore like this when I used to lift weights.

Should I be worried? I took a nap and when I woke up I did feel a bit better, but I’m still walking like a penguin and my entire body is definitely still sore.

For me, yoga is the combination of three things that my body needs for physical and mental health: 1) stretching, 2) body weight exercises, and 3) meditation. While most yoga classes are great for 1 and 2, many instructors make it very challenging to engage with the meditative side of the practice.

The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that instructors often think it is their job to create unique and interesting flows. The end result, however, is that nobody has any clue what's happening or what's coming next. So, instead of staying with your breath and actually flowing through the poses, everyone is looking around and trying to figure out what the heck is going on. A secondary, but lesser issue is that most instructors try to cram way too much into each class which makes the pace much faster than anyone would naturally breath.

Just wanted to vent about something that's been on my mind a lot when I do in-studio classes lately. I think Ashtanga may be the best practice for me since it emphasizes continuity of practice and individual pace, but I haven't been able to find an instructor/studio close to me.

Hello folks! I'm 28 weeks and have been wanting to get back into yoga for a while. I went to a couple of Vinyasa classes that felt great however, after attending I read that doing deep twists, lying on one's back and core work should be avoided.

I did core work and some twists, nothing too extreme, just a part of a moderate flow Vinyasa class. Does anyone have any advice on what poses I should absolutely avoid or advice in general? I obviously don't want to hurt my baby but really enjoyed participating in the full practice.

Thank you!

https://youtu.be/QCD8TlfwMC8

Does anyone practice Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga? I want to find a course for a beginner.

Added a basic vinyasa flow on the advice of my personal trainer to supplement my weight lifting. I've been doing it off and on for six months and while I feel good, a lot of moves are just too hard (i.e. feels mechanically impossible: not "I'm not strong enough" or "I can't stretch that far").

I'm outrageously tall (6'8"), top heavy (250 lbs), have poor balance, and zero hip and ankle mobility. I try foam rolling and stretching my hips and calves but nothing seems to help.

I could ask a million questions but my big one today is chair pose.

Just...how?

Once I squat more than 1/4 depth into chair pose I immediately collapse onto my butt.

Every.

Single.

Time.

It doesn't feel like I'm lacking strength (I know I am in areas). It just feel mechanically impossible. I'd have just as much luck sprouting wings and flying: if you squat and lower your hips and butt into a seating position: how do you catch myself when all 250 lbs of me yank me 7 feet to the ground?

Without anything to catch my fall: how am I suppose to improve? I can't just push/stretch harder and grit through it: I just fail immediately and it feels like there nothing I can do about it.

I can do 1/2 of a chair pose if I keep my feet very far apart (a sumo squat: wider than my shoulders) and bend forward 90 degrees (it's the only way to get weight over feet and not behind them: my ankles do not bend forward at all: they just don't. Ever.) So I've just been doing that for six months...and it isn't getting better at all.

Any guidance? I feel very stuck on this.