Comments on SquirrelInHell: The Unyoga Manifesto

I'm awfully curios if you have any recommendat...

2020-07-15T22:46:08.828+01:00

I'm awfully curios if you have any recommendations as to how one can actually get into a yoga practice coming from an analytics perspective.

As in, yes, digging through the religious bs is easy, but I'd still like to start with a course that ignores that bit entirely to save time.

Also, it seems that yoga does promote some positions which look damaging to the back and I'm really curios as to how one can discern between potentially damaging poses/movements and useful ones. Without assuming 100% of yoga is correct and without being an expert in understanding human musculature.

I don't actually disagree all that much with y...

2017-10-24T09:42:05.527+01:00

I don't actually disagree all that much with your comment. If learning is a dialogue between your own body and the teachings you receive, view my post as a "first correction", a reaction to people not showing up for their side of the dialogue. What you say is a "second correction", which makes perfect sense but only after you acknowledge the validity of the first correction.

Rationalist and yoga teacher here. Honestly disag...

2017-10-06T19:20:19.960+01:00

Rationalist and yoga teacher here. Honestly disagree with the main claims. Correct posture requires the progressive engagement of muscles that have largely atrophied in most people. Precision approaches, like Iyengar, or even Ballet, will get you much farther, early on, than gradient decent from a bad starting point.

Once your body has recovered a full range of basic functionality it makes sense to personally discover what's right for you, and certainly not to keep repeating the same postures over and over. At the same time, once you can do that, your practice will probably tend to move naturally towards meditation and pranayama, for which the hatha was ultimately just a warm-up.