Yoga Practice Blog

 Final Yoga Journal Reflection     This semester marks the semester that I practiced yoga the most. While I have been doing yoga for about six years, I only really used it for a specific purpose. For example, I would do a flow for stress when I was feeling anxious. When I felt like my muscles were getting tight I would do a flexibility practice. Previously, I never did yoga for any other reason but a physical exercise and a way for me to relax into my body. This semester, I've taken yoga more seriously and now the physical asanas are one of the many aspect of yoga that I focus on. Instead of it just being a physical practice, in the last few months I have cultivated it into my life on and off the mat.      Out of all the practices that we participated in as a class, my favorites were Iyengar Yoga and  Sivananda Yoga. I really liked Iyengar Yoga because it is highly customizable and can be tailored to your own personal progress. While I think Iyengar is excellent at marketing by mak

      This week I didn't have much time to do a yoga practice so I did a 30 minute yoga flow for achieving front splits. This class was taught by Cat Meffan and I took it through Youtube. The front splits has been a pose I've been trying to master for some time now. Back when I used to due gymnastics it came easy to me but now that I've been out of practice for some time, it is a pose that I really want to work toward achieving. Most of the time my hamstrings and hips are where all of my tension is stored so this flow was perfect for that.      In this class, I liked how the teacher catered the flow to preparing for front splits. We did pigeon pose, low lunge, and flowed through other hip and hamstring openers. While I didn't achieve the full pose this time, I got pretty close. I used my blocks to prop my hands up and the pose felt a lot better and less intense that way. Normally when I do this pose without the blocks, I tend to hunch my back or go into the pose too far