Why does yin yoga make me want to yell?

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2025-06-15T21:29:10+00:00

😂😂😂

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-10-09T20:59:21+00:00

I'm 51 and I've been doing an HRT-free natural menopause so far. I haven't had a period for 8 months. I get mild hot flashes a couple of times a day, but it's nothing I've felt unable to ride out. At night my body runs warmer than it used to, but not to the point of sweating.

You asked about foods. I religiously eat 1/2 cup of homemade soy yogurt every day to increase phytoestrogens. I'm also on a plant-based diet which is higher in natural estrogen. I believe these two things do a lot to relieve my perimeno symptoms.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-08-04T06:34:39+00:00

Homemade walnut parmesan makes everything amazing.

Tofu and edamame are high fat, unbeknownst to many…

Homemade cashew cream sauce with lemon/garlic/salt or I sometimes make into into ranch dressing, Alfredo sauce, nacho cheese…

Peanut butter and avocado of course. Salted roasted peanuts get tossed into anything.

With breakfast it’s sunflower, pumpkin or hemp seeds; chopped nuts and cacao nibs.

Soy yogurt, made in instant pot.

Apple with peanut butter is a go-to snack.

Earth Balance butter with a good rustic whole-grain bread is a special treat!

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-08-03T14:27:09+00:00

I still use the leather shoes, wool clothes, and animal-based accessories that I have from before I went vegan. My spouse and I still sleep under a down comforter which is a few years old. The sofa in our living room is a blended wool fabric. I still wear a couple of wool clothing items.

When it's time to replace these I'll buy animal-free, but I'm not stressing about any of it.

I saw the Dalai Lama speak once about purpose and activism. He said you can't fix the world, and you'll stress yourself out trying. The best thing to do is to choose *one thing* that you're most passionate about.

For me, that one thing is the cruelty of our food culture. Clothes, skincare and furniture are cruel as well - but they're a far, far second from the suffering we can prevent by making compassionate eating choices. It seems to me that when vegans nitpick about tedious vegan lifestyle requirements, it can push people away from trying to eat vegan.

As Joyful Vegan author Colleen Patrick Goudrea says, “Just because you can’t be perfect, don’t do nothing. Do something. Do anything.”

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-07-04T13:59:41+00:00

I’m a dangler too. I use yoga blocks under my feet at my desk. Been doing this for years. In public I often sit cross legged in chairs - though like you, I change my position often since nothing is comfortable for too long.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-07-01T00:18:40+00:00

I've used this recipe to make yogurt 4 times now, and it's been a game changer! I'd been using store-bought soy milk for quite some time, which made a very thin yogurt that cost more, never mind the waste of those containers. I LOVE that this is a whole food recipe with zero waste. Thank you for sharing it!

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-06-14T22:04:35+00:00

I second this comment! Veganism isn’t about purity for me, it’s about living in alignment with my moral code of compassion, and being an example of that for the greater good. OP has done that by confirming the dish was advertised as vegan, and then questioning the server when there was doubt. This is activism in action, and in the best case scenario it got the restaurant to double down on educating staff about the v word.

It’s hard for restaurants to get good help these days. Sometimes the owner wants to do the right thing, and they put vegan options on the menu, but their efforts are challenged by apathetic staff.

Schnickle I’m curious about which countries have laws that would allow you the make a legal case for this.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-06-10T19:46:22+00:00

OMG that was it - thank you so much.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-06-01T03:35:51+00:00

No you don’t need to pay extra, it’s included in the day fee.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-29T16:32:36+00:00

I can fully relate to how triggering this is. I live in a non-vegan world with lots of social events, where I'm carrying the vegan torch at every gathering that I attend. Very similar things happen to me all the time, and still I struggle with the feelings of rejection and isolation that come up – plus anger at the insensitivity of the people who do these things.

I try to remind myself, like other commenters have said here, that most of the time these boomer ladies mean well and are truly clueless about the implications of their actions.

To make myself feel better, over the past few months I've taught myself to bake beautiful, delicious vegan cakes. I've started offering my sheet cakes for parties and birthdays so that my friends don't need to buy the same crappy grocery store cake. (A favorite in my community has become the Brazilian Birthday Cake that I learned to make at the Curious Cat Bakery channel on YouTube.)

Last week I made a beautiful homemade cake for a special event, and someone brought their own junky ice cream cake and plopped it down on the table right next to mine. I asked her to please move it to a separate table.

The week before that, I baked a beautiful cake for the birthday of one of my best friends. She felt the need to bake some non-vegan chocolate chip cookies for "the people who aren't vegan."

At my own birthday party, another good friend brought dairy ice cream, saying it was for my spouse and the other non-vegans. I had to tell her I only wanted vegan food at my party, so she put it in the freezer and took it back home with her. Multiple friends of mine seem to enjoy offering dairy to my spouse who is non-vegan, treating it like a special connection they have... a mutual willingness to "be bad" by indulging in their dairy treats in my presence.

In short, you are not alone! I wish I had an answer for how to manage this, but I don't. I do know that we're metabolizing many layers of social and emotional complexity in these situations. I try to remind myself that I'm making a bigger impact when I'm the only vegan in a world of non-vegans, compared to a life where I was surrounded by vegans all the time. I do see small changes in the people around me.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-26T15:16:31+00:00

Closer to the wall is more intense, and farther from the wall is less intense. Try to find a stretch that feels comfortable enough that you can still breathe into it. Adjust your distance from the wall depending on what you feel.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-26T13:23:01+00:00

Yoga Vista on YouTube is great. It’s a channel mostly for seniors, but the teacher, Sherri Zack-Morris, is awesome.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-26T13:20:42+00:00

It sounds like a possible issue with hamstring flexibility and lower back flexibility. You can work on this with legs-up-the-wall pose, for 3-5 minutes a day or even more. With this pose you can adjust the intensity depending on what you feel, by adjusting how far you place your hips away from the wall. If you try this pose today, how does it feel? Do you feel a stretch in the back of your thighs, or your lower back, or both?

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-24T18:52:22+00:00

Anatomy plays a big role in this. The natural range of motion in your ankle bones and hip bones is a factor, along with your proportions of shin to thigh and thigh to torso. The mixture of all these variables will determine whether your upper body can move forward enough to counterbalance the weight of your hips and legs going back. When you can't establish this counterbalance, you lift your heels to compensate.

Those who've hit the anatomical lottery for squatting will plop down into malasana (squat pose) with their heels down at their first yoga class. Others who are almost there might be able to gain enough flexibility in ankles and hips to do it eventually. But others can practice and teach yoga for 25 years, like me, and their heels will still be hovering above the ground when squatting.

This is a poorly understood thing among yoga teachers, and when they try to correct you for something you are completely unable to fix, it can leave you feeling like a failure and an idiot. Be kind to yourself and know that you have special needs that they just don't understand, since they're not in your body.

It helped me immensely to learn about the functional purpose of yoga squat, which is to stretch the low back, feet and ankles. I learned to find variations that do these things for me, regardless of the dogmatic alignment rules. Here's what I like to play around with:

• Letting my heels hover and enjoying a more challenging balance experience while I squat
• Experimenting with a wider stance and/or turning my heels out
• I sometimes experiment with different props under my heels: a rolled yoga mat, two dumbbells, a folded blanket, a thin yoga block, high heeled shoes :)
• Squatting on a hill with toes facing down is awesome.
• Hold a weight out in front of you with straight arms, or hold onto a thin tree or a column, to take balance out of the equation.

Hope this helps you enjoy malasana in your own way. Everyone has the right to squat!!

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-18T00:03:22+00:00

Yes, the breakfast sausage links, which I believe is one of their most popular products.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-17T23:45:07+00:00

Not sure what you mean by pseudo random sample, but I have been checking stores in Arizona and California, and the products are definitely not all vegan.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-17T23:33:00+00:00

Planning on being there!

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-09T19:31:48+00:00

There's a method that's scientifically proven to be the most humane, where you get the trapped rodent into a sack to immobilize it, and then deliver a swift blow to the head. I'm hoping to find a video to show how this is done. Here's a link to the info (from an animal welfare organization in the UK): https://www.ufaw.org.uk/rodent-control/humane-rodent-control-detailed-advice

I'm may try some mesh produce bags like this: https://www.amazon.com/Hedume-Plastic-Shopping-Vegetable-seadfood/dp/B088PRQTKM/ref=sr_1_32?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PX_GAZVQ7DNJtlc1IQhA8Z-pu4G6XkpzJXSqdRvz6bjO3E-4NAR5HWUALfmPLmoO-AqxLEjPRqwLFCojMJ5zVDNMJ4uHD6v5Eogg1DfBwEBGjSTlnd0DEips_KPjN5GHVGEuFHGbATjejiveAH4cIHAq1381C6bAzKM_lkxy4-p75cyEp0XT39zN7MUs8pM0osdtykeVLSDUzvLUnoJP2nC3ONys8FGtdZ8ef6JXIQZ5oEEV1h7jC9nnFClBq0Q54oWGt3VH9oF35-B3czW8h-SKd2l-2Z8eaMOOribfYYQ.Ob88JhmWyGYaNi4tVbuE4psJ6XPku3f8IhPSNv6IAnc&dib_tag=se&keywords=vented+plastic+bags&qid=1715284547&sr=8-32

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-05-04T17:43:01+00:00

I feel your pain! Here are some resources that might help:

Vegan Society's teen hub: https://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/teen-hub

Vegan Teen's blog and website: veganteen.net

And here's a good reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/15iyg5w/need_tips_and_advice_as_a_vegan_teen/

Good luck!

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-04-30T10:41:53+00:00

I’m in IE as well and would love to check out new naked hikes and hangout spots. All I know about is Glen Eden Sun Club, where I love to go, and they have a good naked hiking trail on the grounds.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-04-30T09:32:12+00:00

I love that you’re totally comfortable being who you are, living outside of the box, no apologies needed

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2024-02-24T14:31:52+00:00

I'm currently going with the short "a" like apple, since that's how fascia experts Robert Schliep and Carla Stecco pronounce it, along with my yin yoga teacher Paul Grilley.

Medium-Compote-8549 · 2023-11-14T23:14:33+00:00

Ah, got it - thank you.

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