#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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#58

Yeah ballet gives you weird legs. I haven’t done it properly since I was 9 or 10 or so, but I’ve still got the turnout.

Used to really like ballet, but hated the way once you started to hit the teenage years they just assumed you were going to devote your whole life to ballet all the time, and weren’t allowed to just do it 1-2 hours a week as a fun activity.

#59

Haha. I have the same turnout posture from swimming breastroke competitively when I was younger.

Most doctors I’ve seen have commented on it, but have been fine when I explain my swimming background.

#60

Agreed. Several of the girls that I used to have lessons with started being home schooled so that they could schedule their life around ballet. They all thought it weird that I took my GCSEs and A Levels seriously. Most of those girls never got a proper education and now seem to work on make up counters in my home town department store :confused:

#61

Oh god, small-town devoted to dance parents really set their kids up for disappointment. I guess like the parents of kids who get into youth football teams. Yes, some will be successful, but it’s brutal and you need a plan B and plan C too, because the odds are so slim.

#62

this is in my list of things to do this year - it’s good for you mentally as well yeah?

#63

Yep go every week and practise at home…

My class is very non competitive full of middle aged women who just want to be themselves for a few hours, is really lovely. The leader is great, no pressure…Likes to say ‘however you feel this week just do that’…

#64

i used to go to classes and now just do it at home (infrequently and probably badly)
i can’t really take doing any sort of exercise more strenuous than walking for an hour so had to stop going to classes. plus they don’t really fit in with shift work. if anyone wants to start some half hour classes that you can just turn up to whenever then sign me up