For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.
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#22I'm very yoga curious but the woo that often creeps in is a real turn off. For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.
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#23I'm very yoga curious but the woo that often creeps in is a real turn off. For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.
You might enjoy DDP Yoga - https://youtu.be/aB5ys1zsz-o - it's yoga from the professional wrestlers perspective.
He has gone on to rehabilitate multiple people and document it. It's really a fascinating story. Kudos!
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#24Rather than collate yoga videos with differing levels of accuracy relative to search (the search I just did was pretty inaccurate), why not have some gifs of poses and generate the practice by linking these poses together to mix something based on the user’s chosen level of difficulty, style, and goals? For my example, I chose “Advanced” and two of the three videos were labelled “Beginner”. The third I did a quick vi…
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#25I'm very yoga curious but the woo that often creeps in is a real turn off. For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.
You might enjoy DDP Yoga - https://youtu.be/aB5ys1zsz-o - it's yoga from the professional wrestlers perspective.
Thanks for that link.
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#28Some vocabulary info would help. As a beginner, words like "hatha" and "ashtanga" mean nothing, so hard to select.
According to Wikipedia:
* Hatha is seems to be a branch of Yoga (Hatha apparently means "force")
* Ashtanga is another type of Yoga brought to the modern world by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and involves synchronizing breath with a series of positions.
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#30Thank you! I was just hoping for something exactly like this, as a super new beginner.