I went to a class today at my local gym. I haven't done yoga for years, but I used to really enjoy it. This class however, was different to anything I've done before. It was ALL just lying on the mat, doing some sitting up and lying down, lying and twisting (banana asana!), and at the end of it I felt like I'd hardly done anything at all. It was literally an entire hour of being horizontal on the mat and I felt really disappointed.
The type of yoga I used to do, which I really enjoyed, was a class mainly done while standing on the mat and doing the poses from a standing position. I remember it started with a series of sun salutations and then flowed from there - but plenty of movement, lots of twisting and balancing, holding a pose and then moving onto the next one. There was a relaxing bit of lying on the mat at the end, but by then I felt I'd earned it!
Can anyone tell me what each kind of yoga is as from now on I'd like to focus on the latter type! I've also done some Bikram Yoga, and this was the same sort of kind of yoga I enjoy, but done in a hot room (and I know its just 26 poses).
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What kind of yoga was this?
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juneau · 19/05/2015 18:17
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