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Yoga and meditation

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CowboySkibop
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Any of y'all into meditation or yoga? ive been doing both the past 2 years and honestly helps so much with all aspects of life, mentally and physically, even with skiing I can get into a state where I'm 100% into the moment and I feel like Aang in the Avatar state lmao. my body feels better than ever cuz I've been doing yoga every morning. what kind of experiences do you guys have?
Oct 19 2020 4:25PM
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AbiH
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Dude that’s sick! I’ve been attempting meditation on and off for a year but I suck at it haha!
Oct 19 2020 8:17PM
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GayWolf420
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hell yeah dude, morning yoga gang rise up.

started doing it a bit as PT last summer, carried over into stretching before skiing everyday/days off, and tried to keep up with it during all the lockdowns but it fell to the wayside...picked it back up after working all summer and been doing it for like 4 weeks straight. cant really get to the gym a bunch rn so just being able to get more flexible + mentally chill is good too
Oct 19 2020 9:02PM
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CowboySkibop
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AbiHDude that’s sick! I’ve been attempting meditation on and off for a year but I suck at it haha!


Thats cool homie! it definitely takes a fair amount of time to train your mind to go "oooh yea we doing this" and slow down
Oct 20 2020 1:24PM
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CowboySkibop
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DeebieSkeebieshell yeah dude, morning yoga gang rise up.

started doing it a bit as PT last summer, carried over into stretching before skiing everyday/days off, and tried to keep up with it during all the lockdowns but it fell to the wayside...picked it back up after working all summer and been doing it for like 4 weeks straight. cant really get to the gym a bunch rn so just being able to get more flexible + mentally chill is good too


good shit man, it rly makes your mind and body feel so much more relaxed throughout the day, not even tryna sound new-agey but thats just how it be
Oct 20 2020 1:27PM
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GayWolf420
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CrunnchyVanMangood shit man, it rly makes your mind and body feel so much more relaxed throughout the day, not even tryna sound new-agey but thats just how it be

for real. not even new agey or anything like that. i started doing it to basically tame anxiety and control the mind more + feel better. its nice to set your intentions on what youd like to achieve for the day and start off grounded, and then go back to breathing exercises throughout the day to re-center focus.
Oct 20 2020 1:32PM
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CowboySkibop
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DeebieSkeebiesfor real. not even new agey or anything like that. i started doing it to basically tame anxiety and control the mind more + feel better. its nice to set your intentions on what youd like to achieve for the day and start off grounded, and then go back to breathing exercises throughout the day to re-center focus.


awesome man, thats a great practice. I always try to give myself extra time throughout the day to just breathe or sit somewhere outside and ground myself. Before I got into yoga and meditation I was an anxious human but now I just feel like whenever anxious thoughts and stuff come up I can just sit back and acknowledge and let it pass through
Oct 20 2020 1:44PM
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SuspiciousFish
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I need to get back into Yoga. It sounds cliche but Yoga really does take your skiing to the next level both mentally and physically. I feel like I have complete control over every muscle in my body to turn etc. I would stand on the top of a run in mountain pose then launch down and feel myself make only a tiny adjustment in a single muscle in my right foot to throw down a huge carve. Its really good for injury prevention as well. I used to do the Rodney Yee Energizing set before heading up to the mountains then the Rejuvenating one when I got home.

I dont really meditate but I have a couple really nice Singing Bowls I like to play. I am really good at playing them even from the first time I picked one up at a shop. I must have been a Tibetan monk in my past life or something.
Oct 20 2020 4:30PM
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CowboySkibop
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SuspiciousFishI need to get back into Yoga. It sounds cliche but Yoga really does take your skiing to the next level both mentally and physically. I feel like I have complete control over every muscle in my body to turn etc. I would stand on the top of a run in mountain pose then launch down and feel myself make only a tiny adjustment in a single muscle in my right foot to throw down a huge carve. Its really good for injury prevention as well. I used to do the Rodney Yee Energizing set before heading up to the mountains then the Rejuvenating one when I got home.

I dont really meditate but I have a couple really nice Singing Bowls I like to play. I am really good at playing them even from the first time I picked one up at a shop. I must have been a Tibetan monk in my past life or something.


Fuck yea man thats great, that mind body awareness is the key to send, for me it takes a lot of fear away when I throw down cuz feel like I know what my body is doing rather than just sliding down the hill on skis and flailing


Singing bowls are tight, I love mine
Oct 20 2020 5:04PM
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sqeellicbic
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I've been meditating for years now but only really got into it a year ago. I use a book called 'The Mind Illuminated' as my guide. I'd highly highly suggest buying the book and getting into it. It carries over to skiing quite a bit and helps with the mental game of learning new tricks.
Oct 20 2020 8:34PM
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Lé.Skiing
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So rad to see more and more people getting into meditation. I've been doing it for a while now but recently(before covid hit) started getting into group meditation and silent retreats. Something about it just refreshes my mind.

Also started getting into singing bowls and sound baths there's something about it that just gets into my core.
Oct 20 2020 10:17PM
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sqeellicbic
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Lé.SkiingSo rad to see more and more people getting into meditation. I've been doing it for a while now but recently(before covid hit) started getting into group meditation and silent retreats. Something about it just refreshes my mind.

Also started getting into singing bowls and sound baths there's something about it that just gets into my core.


What kind of retreats have you done? I've been meaning to do a 10 day one but then covid happened.
Oct 21 2020 12:39AM
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yessirskiii_
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Controlled breathing and yoga and/or stretching for a solid thirty is the best way to start a day
Oct 21 2020 12:49PM
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snowmosexual
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I'm big into yoga and meditation after taking a lot of religion classes in college. I just started doing yoga about a year ago and haven't been too disciplined in practicing everyday, but it definitely helps to reach the avatar state while skiing/biking/playing music for me.

Zen buddhism is pretty dang cool. I like zazen meditation where you sit with your eyes open and count your breaths to ten for 10-20 minutes. Its a pretty easy way to achieve an empty mind.

I was just recently gifted a copy of The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh. I've only read the intro and first chapter, but I'm diggin it
Oct 21 2020 1:09PM
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CowboySkibop
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snowmosexualI'm big into yoga and meditation after taking a lot of religion classes in college. I just started doing yoga about a year ago and haven't been too disciplined in practicing everyday, but it definitely helps to reach the avatar state while skiing/biking/playing music for me.

Zen buddhism is pretty dang cool. I like zazen meditation where you sit with your eyes open and count your breaths to ten for 10-20 minutes. Its a pretty easy way to achieve an empty mind.

I was just recently gifted a copy of The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh. I've only read the intro and first chapter, but I'm diggin it


I've gotta try zazen that sounds awesome...



Sweet man, Im reading Be Here Now by Ram Dass at the moment and its a pretty cool book too
Oct 21 2020 4:47PM
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Splendor
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I have been practicing yoga for 2 years every morning. Yoga even helped me out of my depression a few years ago. That's why I decided to take a course of YTT. After yoga helped me cope with depression, I realized that yoga is what I want to do all my life. I also want to help people who like me are in trouble and my yoga classes might help someone cope with their problems or just learn more about themselves. So if someone has any questions about yoga then feel free to ask me any questions.

**This post was edited on Nov 1st 2020 at 3:34:44am
Oct 30 2020 2:37PM
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CowboySkibop
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SplendorI have been practicing yoga for 2 years every morning. Yoga even helped me out of my depression a few years ago.


Thats awesome, its crazy how much linking the mind and body can help, yoga has brought me so in tune with myself and I've fixed parts of me that were angry or irrational that I wasn't even mindful of before
Oct 30 2020 2:39PM
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steeze_louise
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I was doing at least 30 min of yoga and meditation every day, 20 min of yoga and 10 min of meditation and some times 10 min of wim hof breathing, sometimes I did another 20 min right before I went to bed when I felt like it. Literally I was so militant about it, Woke up 40 min before I had to to do it. Fell of the wagon when I tor my acl, been pretty hard to make it a habit again but I am getting back into it as opart of my rehab. OP was 100% right about feeling like aang. Yoga combined with the gym makes you feel like a savage.
Nov 1 2020 7:54PM
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Squirtle
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I've gotten pretty into yoga over this past year. It's so great. It's such a well-balanced and overall healthy activity; both physically and mentally. I've become stronger and more flexible throughout my entire body, my balance has gotten better, and I've become calmer and more at peace.10/10 would recommend.

Where do you guys get your yoga routines from? I'd like to try classes at some point when covid is over, but rn I've mostly been getting my routines from YouTube. (Yoga with Adriene. Sarah Beth, Boho Beautiful). Do any of you know of any other good sources for routines, or YouTubers?
Nov 15 2020 11:00PM
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snowmosexual
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I went to a samadhi bliss class last night that went through some quick flows, a kundalini breath work exercise, and a guided meditation. I probably can't relate the meditation without sounding like a nutcase, but I can give my word that the weirder side of yoga is fully worth it and can give you some intense insight.
Nov 16 2020 2:32PM
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CowboySkibop
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snowmosexualI went to a samadhi bliss class last night that went through some quick flows, a kundalini breath work exercise, and a guided meditation. I probably can't relate the meditation without sounding like a nutcase, but I can give my word that the weirder side of yoga is fully worth it and can give you some intense insight.


For real, I’ve done a bit of Kundalini, that stuff is wild, I love it
Nov 17 2020 1:54PM
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snowmosexual
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SquirtleWhere do you guys get your yoga routines from? I'd like to try classes at some point when covid is over, but rn I've mostly been getting my routines from YouTube. (Yoga with Adriene. Sarah Beth, Boho Beautiful). Do any of you know of any other good sources for routines, or YouTubers?


Squirtle, I know times are weird right now and you may not have access to a yoga studio, but there is a reason yoga teachers spend years learning. Going to a studio and getting to know your teachers is fundamental to the practice. I do not mean to come off as pious, I got my start with at home online videos. But since joining a studio, I have learned so much more about how my body can move and balance, the importance of breath, and the strength of the mind.

That being said, the best way to find videos is to do some research onto what types of yoga there are. I've found a great resource in erowid.org: https://www.erowid.org/spirit/yoga/yoga.shtml
Nov 17 2020 8:30PM
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qazwsxedc34
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Sat in cave for a nearly three weeks and meditated on God's word. Not three years like Loyola but still. I'm hoping I can get up to 5 momths with fasting with no water.
Apr 27 2021 5:19PM
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mikemac
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broke 4 vertebrae, my hip socket, my femur, my tibia, meniscus and hip labrum in 2017.

Yoga helped me in an insane way... even after docs and PT were like ya you’re fine I could barely run, couldn’t sit cross legged, felt like I’d never play pickup sports or ski at my level again. Every single class I went to I felt myself breaking open and breaking down scar tissue. After 3 years of practice and 479 classes (the sign-up app tracks your activity) restorative, yin/yang, vinyasa heated power yoga, hot 26&2, etc. in addition to cycling and getting back into lifting I found myself at 28 3x the athlete that I was at 24 when I got hurt.

it also has helped me a TON with my mental health, quitting nicotine, my relationship to alcohol, my diet, my interpersonal relationships, my professional performance (aka keeping cool when everyone else is losing their shit.)

unfortunately didn’t practice as much in 2020 due to COVID, and I sort of fell off the rails with a lot of that stuff, but I don’t think we can judge ourselves too harshly for anything we did in 20/21. Cuz fuck this year so hard lol
Apr 28 2021 4:26PM
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buck_nasty
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SquirtleWhere do you guys get your yoga routines from? I'd like to try classes at some point when covid is over, but rn I've mostly been getting my routines from YouTube. (Yoga with Adriene. Sarah Beth, Boho Beautiful). Do any of you know of any other good sources for routines, or YouTubers?

I've been doing DDP Yoga at home with dvds since last fall and am a big fan. It's pretty athletic and not too heavy on the breathing/meditative side of things. Also Brian Kest's Power Yoga is solid.
Apr 28 2021 5:21PM
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steeze_louise
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check out strength side on YT, its pretty dope, its martial movements, mobility flows mixed with yoga, super dope. does a lot of body weight strengthening as well. Its not really yoga but the @kneesovertoesguy on insta is dope as well, I was doing yoga for a year and barely saw any progress in my flexibility, one month into the knees over toes program I can do full splits and touch my palms flat to the ground. Knees are also feeling pretty strong out of surgery.
Apr 30 2021 9:13AM
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elcheapo
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I want to start yoga but don't know were to start. Or how
May 2 2021 8:49AM
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CowboySkibop
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ElcheapoI want to start yoga but don't know were to start. Or how


I would start on youtube, look up "easy yoga flow" and kinda build from there.

probably wanna buy a yoga mat but a nice patch of grass in your backyard will do also
May 2 2021 11:25AM
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ThaLorax
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Man yoga helps me so much but I always forget and/or lose time to do it.
May 2 2021 12:10PM
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