Comments on: Yoga for Enlightenment? Booooring. Yoga for Weight Loss! http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/10/yoga-for-enlightenment-booooring-yoga-for-weight-loss/ daily blog, videos, e-newsletter & magazine on yoga + organics + green living + non-new agey spirituality + ecofashion + conscious consumerism=it's about the mindful life. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Burgess http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/10/yoga-for-enlightenment-booooring-yoga-for-weight-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-1803011 Burgess Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:10:52 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=30238#comment-1803011 Howdy, I stumbled upon your blog by means of Bing even while hunting for a very similar subject, your web site came out, it appears to be fine. I've book-marked it within my yahoo bookmark Howdy, I stumbled upon your blog by means of Bing even while hunting for a very similar subject, your web site came out, it appears to be fine. I’ve book-marked it within my yahoo bookmark

]]> By: Drivers Lord http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/10/yoga-for-enlightenment-booooring-yoga-for-weight-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-1128125 Drivers Lord Thu, 19 May 2011 19:05:16 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=30238#comment-1128125 Very nice post, I surely love this site, keep it up. Very nice post, I surely love this site, keep it up.

]]> By: Roger Williams http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/10/yoga-for-enlightenment-booooring-yoga-for-weight-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-25448 Roger Williams Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:35:46 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=30238#comment-25448 Its as much a burden for the teacher as it is for the student as to whether or not the student looks beyond the physical aspect of Yoga. The teacher has to go beyond just the poses and introduce breath control and meditation if they hope to take students beyond exercise. At least getting them to the mat for yoga practice is a huge step over going nowhere on a stairmaster or lifting weights to place them back where you got them. This is at minimal a subconscious realization for people as Yoga creates situations that the body is not familiar with or used to and the mind has to calm itself, especially in balancing poses. Plus as the article points out losing some weight can't hurt this Hungry Hungry Hippo nation. Its as much a burden for the teacher as it is for the student as to whether or not the student looks beyond the physical aspect of Yoga. The teacher has to go beyond just the poses and introduce breath control and meditation if they hope to take students beyond exercise.

At least getting them to the mat for yoga practice is a huge step over going nowhere on a stairmaster or lifting weights to place them back where you got them. This is at minimal a subconscious realization for people as Yoga creates situations that the body is not familiar with or used to and the mind has to calm itself, especially in balancing poses.

Plus as the article points out losing some weight can't hurt this Hungry Hungry Hippo nation.

]]> By: Sadie Nardini http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/10/yoga-for-enlightenment-booooring-yoga-for-weight-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-24862 Sadie Nardini Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:03:35 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=30238#comment-24862 I hope it's a gateway! You should hear me in class..."Your center this, your inner strength that..." I always use the physical intensity of my classes as a draw to teach people how to bear the intensities of living and loving, and knowing themselves on a spiritual level too. When anything becomes only physical, or only mental, emotional...even only spiritual, we lose the depth and richness the other planes bring. It's not a question of should we separate the physical from the spiritual. Anyone who has been on a beautiful walk knows that one informs the other, and ultimately, we need them all, working in harmony, or we risk losing lose the dynamic reflection of our experience of the heart, and soul of things. Looking at a diamond with only one facet? Now, THAT's boring! Working out, getting stronger, AND being in the fiery belly of life, creating our truths out into our worlds--using our whole beings? Not so much! Sadie I hope it's a gateway! You should hear me in class…"Your center this, your inner strength that…" I always use the physical intensity of my classes as a draw to teach people how to bear the intensities of living and loving, and knowing themselves on a spiritual level too. When anything becomes only physical, or only mental, emotional…even only spiritual, we lose the depth and richness the other planes bring. It's not a question of should we separate the physical from the spiritual. Anyone who has been on a beautiful walk knows that one informs the other, and ultimately, we need them all, working in harmony, or we risk losing lose the dynamic reflection of our experience of the heart, and soul of things. Looking at a diamond with only one facet? Now, THAT's boring! Working out, getting stronger, AND being in the fiery belly of life, creating our truths out into our worlds–using our whole beings? Not so much!
Sadie

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