Angry Yoga Girl

 Meditation: This week we had a meditation practice let by Marcello Spinella. While before this there has been breathing and centering yourself in the yoga practices I have done, there has not been meditation. On my own I have meditated before and enjoy it very much. While centering oneself and breathing during yog is important and a great way to set the mood, I definitely feel meditation would add a whole new level to yoga if added in every day practice. I think yoga has been absent from my yoga practice because since the videos I watch are just that, videos, there is a stigma that they need to be fast, and easy and not waste much time. That meditation would take too long. Even if I type in meditation on Youtube, some of the first videos are 5 minute mediation, 19 minute meditation, quick mediation. All quick ones to get done fast and keep going. Meditation is not about getting something done fast and keep going with life. Its about finding ones self, earning a bit about yourself, and

 Yoga for stress/anxiety from MadFit on youtube Since this week there wasn't a prompt, I decided to go with a yoga that was more based off of what I was feeling. I've been stressed with school and finals coming up and I have plenty of anxiety to go around. So I found a video and followed along. The account that is is from is called MadFit on youtube. Right off she was focusing on breathing and kept with that the whole video. It reminded be of Jen from Hive Yoga with how focused on breathing it was. A lot of the stretches were relaxing and not too difficult for someone like me with tight hamstrings. I very much felt more relaxed and felt a bit of my stress and anxiety go away. My favorite exorcises were the ones she did lying down on the floor just because they felt the easiest and more relaxing in my opinion.  Over all I liked this video a lot and may use MadFit's videos in the future for exorcises or may try looking for one more centered around stress and anxiety rather th

       This week the instructor I followed along to was Jenn Kretzer from The Yoga Hive studio. She teaches a yoga called Sivananda yoga. This kind of yoga is the one you think about when you imagine crazy yoga moves like doing poses on your head. It was very different from the other practices we have done from the beginning breathing to the head stands. From what I have observed from the movies we have watched in class, it seems much different and a much more popularized version of yoga.     Jenn started out with focusing on breathing. While other practices have been mindful of breathing, this one took it to a new level of really centering yourself and doing different breathing exorcises like one where you really engage your gut and breathe in and out fast. From what we have discussed in class, breathing is a big part of traditional culture of yoga but its more of a steady and soothing pace. In traditional yoga, its a lot more about finding yourself and being centered with your spirit