To wonder if yoga is becoming less popular now?

I've switched to tai chi and functional movements.

No, reformer is resistance training and should strengthen your local muscles around your joints so you are less likely to get injured from yoga, which is a very different way of moving

I would say its the cost and online availability.

If you've trained a lot you can practise on your own more. I'm just getting back into it. I love Hatha and Restorative Yoga. I actually think it might have a resurgence for its mental health benefits. It was very trendy for the fast flow Astanga and Hot Yoga style. We just need a celeb to suddenly re-embrace it lol.

I also think strength training is taking up some of it. Its more efficient.

Not here. It's thriving. North Leeds.

Nope.. still popular here

Definitely a downturn in my area( South East)
I think that reformer Pilates has grown in popularity and so people are ditching yoga.
The reformer classes at my gym ( Virgin Active) are always fully booked
Also, there are free yoga videos on YouTube so people are less inclined to go to classes

My gym has 14 yoga classes a week, 10 pilates and another 9 that are a mix of the two. So clearly not waning in popularity here!

Why did you start a whole new thread asking the same things?...weird.

They're both different, it depends on what you want to achieve, there's no right answer here.

Are those who say Pilates is much better than yoga able to explain why? Genuinely curious.
I do both yoga and reformer Pilates, is it pointless doing both?

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Risks that poor teachers won't pick up on include:

Yoga butt ie. Hamstring tendinitis from people over stretching in down dog, hanumanasana, forward fold etc especially by not warming up sufficiently. You can get groin strain from frog etc if done cold, likewise. A good teacher will warm you up well before these poses, and remind you to ease into down dog the first few times (knees bent, pedal the feet, etc).

Hypermobile people can be seriously injured if not instructed e.g. to keep elbows slightly bent. Often people don't know they have jypermobility in certain joints until a teacher tells them so

Headstands etc should never be attempted until someone has the core strength to keep everything correctly stacked as well as the shoulder strength to make sure the Wright isn't going into the head

People need to be reminded not to turn their neck in plough pose, not to force their knee into 90° in pigeon if it doesn't naturally turn that way, to use props to bring the floor closer to them etc etc or they can hurt themselves

Also a good teacher will correct your alignment so you aren't further entrenching yoyr anterior pelvic tilt every time you do goddess, or hunching your shoulders in tadasana.

Breathing reminders which are crucial for being able to advance in your practice

Silly coment.

I stopped going to classes when I found Charlie Follows and Kassandra on youtube

I really enjoy doing Yoga, teacher is good

I don't get involved with the spiritual side and am not keen on that aspect of it

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Definitely still thriving in my quite-far-out part of SE London, lots of classes to choose from, well attended by a wide variety of students and high quality of teaching. I'm quite surprised to hear what you say! I guess I think of yoga as being quite timeless

There can be. Joesph Pilates developed a reformer machine.

For me, it's that I can do basic yoga at home for free with a youtube video, but I will go to a Reformer Pilates class and pay for it because I can't replicate it at home (unless I want to spend 3 grand on a machine).
Plus strength training is definitely more popular in the last few years, and RP covers that.

Move with Nicole is good for pilates. At my gym yoga is still popular but not as popular as Pilates which is very difficult to book in for

Yoga is booming in my village and the next village too. There are two dedicated yoga centres and individual classes too. Even the 7am classes are full!

I've been practising yoga for 30+ years and I have recently 'defected' to pilates. The class is women only, subsidised by the LA and the instructor is very jolly... it's also only 45 mins and starts at 6 30pm. Yoga starts at 7.30 on a less convenient day. Many of the good teachers in the past just moved on. Yoga teaching can be a bit of a lifestyle stop gap. I still go sometimes, practice with Adrienne every January and found a teacher who runs relatively affordable weekend breaks - I got a cancellation, she fills her breaks with repeat custom - ladies of a certain age and the occasional guy.

The yoga teachers that worked in my area were pretty awful. I recall one woman not being able to do downward dog without pain and she repeated asked the teacher for tips. At the end of a class where I was still packing up I overheard her telling the student to keep. pushing it and work through the pain

That's not like the yoga teachers I've had. They've been very much, you know your body and its limits, and usually given different options for poses, and to recognise the difference between working a muscle and pain and to stop beforethe latter. My current teacher once showed us x-rays of different pelvises to explain some people will never be able to do certain poses who their fullest expression, without cutting off bits of bone - you can stretch soft tissue over time, but dolid bits will stay solid. She's especially keen on protecting knees and shoulders, though I think that's partly because of people in the class telling her about injuries, that she focusses on them.

Anyway, the class I go to is always busy, but she is a good teacher. I haven't been on a yoga retreat for a couple of years because I was made redundant and couldn't afford it, so I don't know how they're doing, but the ones I've done before still running, going by the mails I get.