QUOTE(dimensia @ May 13 2004, 01:11 PM)
dude yoga looks gay, wots the point?
Yoga cannot and does not have a sexual orientation.
The point is spiritual and physical exercise.
personally, I prefer martial arts to yoga any day, although I love yoga. I should do more yoga because it is so good for stretching your muscles.
And people always say that yoga is a 'wussy' sport/exercise method, but it is extremely difficult to do correctly. There are different types of yoga to suit different people too. My sister and my mom do Bikram yoga, which is yoga in a room that is 100-110° in temperature.
Yoga is a lot like martial arts in that it tests your endurance and stamina in a non-harmful way. And in its difficulty it also exercises your spirit. I swear, I can be in the worst mood, or the most stressful mood. 30 minutes of tai chi, or another martial art - I'm in a completely tranquil state.
I think everyone should try Yoga or martial arts for at least 6 months at one time in yoru life.
But
not American yoga or martial arts. American yoga is too much like arobics, and american martial arts is too much like boxing. They won't exercise you spiritually, which is just as important as physical exercise. Do something authentic. Yoga has been practiced in India for thousands of years, I think they know how to do it a bit better than we do in America. Martial arts has been practiced for thousands of years in the orient, I think they know how to teach it a bit better.
b.d
edit - and btw. I don't know what kind of sports y'all play. But most mainstream sports athletes could not handle a good 2 hour session of yoga (if they are doing it right). Not many people in the
world can. I sure as hell can't. Mainstream sports work just a few muscles, and yoga works every muscle you could image. The reason yoga hurt so much to all of y'all who did it just once is because y'all were using muscles you have never used before. It takes a while to build up those muscles, and you get very sore the first couple of times you use them. Luckily I have done diving and martial arts for years and years and years, so I had worked out most of not-regularely-used muscles, so my first yoga lesson was not that bad

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