#37

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#38

He was infront of me wearing insanely short yoga shorts. Like short speedos.

He did a pose where he lifted his leg behind him and up in the air so his ball was exposed like that in front of me out of the side of the shorts.

#39

Sort of like this?

#40

I once choked myself on my own breasts whilst doing a pose laying face down on the floor. I had to get up and compose myself.

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#41

Sort of yes. But no peen. Just ball.

#42

Thanks for clearing it all up and for all the detail. You are a master of language and paint a real picture with all of your posts IMHO.

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#43

Okay, I’ll admit it. I was not aware that a thirty years ago a guy invented a yoga type that used many of the tools and methods of pilates.

Everybody look at this
#44

Iyengar yoga is really, really popular. You’re obviously not up to date.

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#45

Thank you for your dignified response. Let’s all try to put this unpleasantness behind us.

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#46

Yoda?

#47

Yeah, @_Em.

#48

Really need to start yoga or pilates. Cycling a lot means I have decent cardio fitness but the rest of me is fucking shit and I’m very week and have absolutely no core strength. There’s a sort-of cycling specific class at Cadence I’ve been eyeing up but I just cannot be fucked, it’s more mentally I’m like “I cycle, I’m fit, fuck everything else” but really I should make the effort.

Can any SE Londoners recommend anywhere? Or alternatively something not £££ in The City?

#49

This is your first gold star on the chart. Once you complete it, you win a small prize.

#50

This is where I used to go. It’s right by Brockley station. Make sure to read the timetable carefully though, because they do a lot of different classes of different difficulty levels, and you don’t want to be stuck with the mean gymnast women making you feel bad you can’t do backflips.

Particularly nice teachers were Fontini and Carlene. The mean gymnast woman was Carlie.

#52

when I lived in oxford there was a ‘yoga for cyclists’ class over winter that a lot of my cycling club pals went to that was meant to be really good. specifically targeted all the muscles that get neglected / shortened / whatever by being on a bike for ages.

I never went

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#53

I’d like to start yoga this year, mainly so I can strengthen my core and then start running again. My brother and my dad both have problems with the same knee that is giving me grief but running is the only exercise I’ve found that I enjoy doing several times a week so hopefully it’ll help.

Bit worried about the farting thing though, I’m a fucking machine

#54

My dad’s an Iyengar teacher. When I was growing up I learned never to say any part of me hurt around him because his solution was invariably to make me do some sort of stretch or stand on my head.

He does some sort of back pain class out of the University, which is attended by people who apparently don’t know anything about their own bodies.

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#55

oooh, thanks for this. they have a £20 for 20 days thing i might have a go at!

#56

Our dance teacher is also a yoga instructor, which means we do it before and after each class. I really enjoy it but have trouble with some poses because I can’t open my hips enough.

Would like to do more classes but would also like to avoid the whole spiritualist vibe. Not a fan of that shit at all. We don’t get that in dance class because our instructor is so practical.

#57

I think I would prefer a yoga class that was taught by a dance teacher. Last time I went to a yoga class, I got into an argument with the teacher (a wellness pseudo-hippy type) who told me that my turn out was unnatural and a sign that I carry tension in my legs. She would not accept that I’ve had 25 years of ballet lessons and that is how I normally move. The class ended with me calling her undisciplined and narrow-minded, and storming out :pensive: Not my finest hour

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