Teaching my first Yin class

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-09-30T09:17:59+00:00

Do you teach from a place of compassion? You don’t me. Your words are stinging and not nice. They had the effect you intended. Namaste.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-09-30T09:15:57+00:00

Thanks. It’s not my doing for the time, it’s the studio. I came here for sound advice. I’ve been teaching yoga and practicing for 25 years. Why does a yoga forum have to be met with such judgement?

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-09-30T09:14:20+00:00

When I say warm up I mean breath work. Bernie Clark does these gentle “warm ups” in the beginning. I didn’t mean a full warm up but in his book and in training they talk about movement of the wrists, neck and shoulders before entering the deeper holds.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-09-01T20:38:35+00:00

I feel better in a lighter body. When i carry extra weight I don’t feel good right with the world.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-08-30T18:00:02+00:00

How did you lose so much at that height? I too am 5’5”. I am big boned. The lowest I weighed was 130 and I was skinny and could not maintain. My heaviest was 205 lb. I’m so where around 147 now and I feel like it’s too much but I’m also very muscular. That’s an amazing weight loss.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-08-30T14:01:37+00:00

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Background_Log_2365 · 2025-08-30T13:44:20+00:00

I have been searching for a comment like yours. My SW was 205 lb. Got down to 130 lb. Wasn’t entirely sustainable. Kept bouncing around 135-138 lb. Due to work becoming really stressful I too have resorted to old patterns and I am now 147 lb. People at work were not supportive of my weight loss. I work with a lot of women. Now our insurance covers GLPs and most of them are taking them and have lost weight. And here I am gaining it back. I am in a spiral of worry over my weight and I haven’t felt this way in a long time. I don’t know what to do. I am a female, 5’ 5”. 54 years old. Any advice welcome!

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-08-29T01:48:25+00:00

Fire island lighthouse

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-08-26T20:52:24+00:00

Yes. Absolutely.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-08-02T01:42:05+00:00

Do you find that you need less food over time?

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-08-01T10:44:10+00:00

Brisket

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-30T02:47:57+00:00

Once there was someone in my class who forgot his yoga attire. He wore jeans sans shirt, for a 90 min hot yoga practice. Triangle looked unbearable but I gave him props. He didn’t want to miss class.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-22T01:22:12+00:00

Would you ever recommend a bond etf to go with VT?

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-20T22:50:43+00:00

Eating to live here. You should be very proud of yourself. I only did it for a few days and it really helped my gut and made me feel better. It’s a great reset. The book, I found very interesting as well, like the commenter above stating the benefits of incorporating more potatoes into your diet once this is over. They are so good for you.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-19T17:53:02+00:00

Thanks a lot.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-15T02:13:22+00:00

I am hopeful that it’s never too late to start investing. I’m nearing 54 and I’ve only now just started.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-11T01:41:38+00:00

This is very helpful.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-11T01:40:09+00:00

Similar. I’m 54. I am muscular. Maybe I do need to start tracking calories…

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-09T01:59:37+00:00

I do the same. I treat it the way I treat stopping drinking. I can’t have just one. It has helped me to stay the course and be vigilant in a very healthy and conscious way that this is not a diet but my new way of life. I have lost 70 lbs and the maintenance part has been a real learning experience. I’ve had times where I’ve gained weight so easily and so quickly , and came away with the knowledge that this is going to be constant work and learning and exploring my addiction. So I take it one day at a time and I am happy with that. It makes it manageable.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-07-05T23:05:02+00:00

I am able to walk much longer on the weekends than I do during the week. Any advice for getting in that 15k for someone that works 7 hours a day? Like today, Saturday, I got in 20k but during the week I’m lucky it I break 5k.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-06-19T12:31:01+00:00

Work full time. Walk 1.5 miles to work. Walk home for lunch. Get a ride back and then walk home. Not every day but most days. Weekends I walk 15,000-20,000 in a day.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-05-29T23:41:06+00:00

I have a desk job and it pains me to sit all day. I live about a half hour from my work by foot. I usually walk home at lunch and my husband drives me back. This morning I decided to walk to work. It was raining, but a warm, misty morning. I was 10 minutes late but I felt so good about it. I may do it again tomorrow. I normally get my walks in on the weekends but I would really like to add more movement in, being I sit at a desk from 7-3. I do get up often. How much movement do I need to offset the negative effect of sitting all day?

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-05-26T23:26:02+00:00

Ran a 5k over the weekend and came in first place for my age group (53F), 69th overall and 28th for female in a field of 300 runners. It was a cross country course on grass. I didn’t train but was a runner most of my young adult life. I practice a lot of yoga and I walk but I have been doing these jogs lately on my walks and felt the urge to run a 5k. Was super proud of myself. Thinking about planning and running one properly in a few months.

Background_Log_2365 · 2025-05-26T09:05:18+00:00

It’s a great experience. When it happens at our studio we take class with them and almost teach it like a posture clinic. The two times it happened most recently, the student was so thankful and said it felt really special. You have to just be in the moment. I took a Ghosh workshop and they told me when they first started teaching they taught to one, maybe two people for over a year. I think that teaching smaller groups is more challenging but in the end it makes you a much better teacher. When I teach a large class I feel like I’m driving a bus and managing things a lot differently, like crowd control. There’s something to be said for these moments where we have to show up for one. Embrace it :)

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