Yoga

[neviditelny]

I've been thinking about taking up some yoga but got no idea where to start. Anyone got some youtube-channels or similar to recommend?
Classes will be difficult to attend due to me mainly being on night shifts at work so I thought youtube-channels could be used from home

 

[neviditelny]

Something like '30 days of Yoga' with Adrienne on YouTube is a good place to start if you're an absolute beginner. After that there's endless flows/classes on YouTube which you'll probably find via the suggestions box.

The thing you miss out on not having a good teacher is having someone who can physically adjust you if your alignment is out in certain postures, get to know your body in terms of strong/weak areas and give you options to make a pose more/less challenging. There's also many different types of yoga so it depends on why you want to start the practice of yoga - taking into account stretching is only a small part of it - if you want stuff that's more regimented and like 'exercise' (Ashtanga, Vinyasa flow stuff) or slower and more focused on holding poses for longer and body awareness (Yin, restorative).

/someone who has practiced yoga for nearly 3 years

I'm mainly looking for the more stretching/flexibility and body awareness with the yoga to start with. I will try get to classes when I can but work restricts it quite a bit unfortunately. At the moment I would say my entire body is a huge weak blob

 

[neviditelny]

I've added a yoga mat to my shopping list on Amazon and will look into what yoga classes I can find in my area (Chelmsford) and which would be suitable for me.

 

[neviditelny]

I had to stop doing Yoga as I detested the happy clappy "namaste" we all love you aspect of it. I could take only so many lessons of people chanting or singing before I wanted to knife them all.
However, Pilates, much better for me. If you just want to tone and srengthen then maybe consider that.

I must say I didn't think of pilates at all, but it is definately worth looking into as well though.

 

[neviditelny]

Pilates is very core-centric compared to yoga (well, asana, which is the postures bit), which is more gymnastics, breath techniques, plus mindfulness, although there is a lot of core stuff as well:

(advanced practice, obviously)

I would definitely need a lot of work on my core, breathing techniques are always welcome too, and mindfulness is always useful too. I got plenty of stuff to look into now Will spend the next week looking into it a bit more and then aiming to start in end of the month Doing some research for exercises to do at home for strength and stamina as well with the small space I got and few pieces of equipment I have.