Yoga

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Does anybody else feel sad/angry after doing yoga? I often often feel a mixture of sorrow and anger afterward, especially if i have not done yoga in a while. Does anyone know why?

[jean]

1. that is so interesting

are you taking a class or working on your own? I have just started working with a yoga dvd t home but wonder if a class would be more beneficial.

Maybe the yoga positions release tension or pent up energy in your body and it doesn't get completely cleared - I wonder if changing your breathing would help?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i take classes

after the first 2 weeks i am ok...but the first few classes are so rough on me

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. also

i think classes are more beneficial cos then and instructor can correct your position if something was wrong...just be sure to take classes with someone who knows what they are doing other wise you may get hurt

[Skittles]

3. I fall asleep doing yoga

so freaking boring

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. thats funny!!

[MoonAndSun]

6. I'm just the opposite, I feel so at peace and rested, I just want to fall

asleep after shivasana, I don't want to get up and get into bed, just sleep on the floor.

Could it be that there are personal issues that are getting in the way of your yoga practice?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. yes its entirely possible

i just wanted to know if i was the only one

[KCDem]

8. do you feel like you just wasted an hour of your life

that you'll never get back, and that's why you're angry? ;)

I'm not a yoga person; I'm too stressed to do it.

9. yoga, reiki, purifications all

release toxins, either physical or psychic, so it's no surprise at all if you feel sorrow and anger initially afterwards

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. good to know

i am not losing it but last week i have never been so overwhelmed with pain

[MoonAndSun]

11. Is it physical pain or emotional or maybe both??

Please continue with your yoga practice, if it is helping release the emotional and physical toxins in your system, keep going because one day when you've done your practice, you may just feel so peaceful that you could cry. At least that is what happened to me after I started yoga many years ago.

Now it is just such a joy to me, I look forward to my practices. And I take at least 2 teacher-led classes a week just to keep me from becoming lazy with my asanas.

Good luck!!

[SnowGoose]

12. Maybe there's something to this idea

I have a hard time with the notion of "releasing psychic toxins" and the like (no slam intended, it just doesn't work for me), but I *do* think that most of us spend a good deal of our time keeping our big monkey brains occupied, and - intentionally or not - this prevents us from confronting things that we kinda realize aren't right in our lives.

It makes perfect sense to me that when we consiously slow down, and let the quieter parts of our mind speak their piece, some disturbing things can come up.

Same thing happens to heavy smokers; smoke supresses the cilia in the airways which are supposed to bring up mucus and other stuff out of our lungs. After sleeping through the night (without smoking) the cilia are working again, and the smoker awakes with big flegmy coughs.

As with the smoking analogy, I think your experience argues for doing the yoga (or whatever activity allows you to bring this stuff up) rather than avoiding the activity to avoid the negative experience.

Good luck.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. thanks