Flexibility

best yoga poses to increase flexibility? and some challenging yoga poses for who want to get out of the 'beginner category'? pleaseee.

There’s a lot of poses that you can do to increase flexibility in so many different places of your body. I used to do poses from this video to gain flexibility in my hamstrings and calves. The laying pose with the scarf I did daily. Camel pose is my favorite for back flexibility. Here’s a video on opening your shoulders and gaining flexibility there. Here’s a list that I made for opening your hips.Beginner category… Hm. I’m not entirely sure where exactly you’re at or how to answer this since there are so many different ways I could go with this. Like you could be looking for poses with more flexibility or that are a lot more difficult, like inversions. Or you’re just looking for a more regular practice. I think maybe go on youtube and go through some Tara Stiles videos and find which one’s you enjoy most and what poses that you really like! Sorry I couldn’t help you more here (: read more..

Yoga Class

Which is your yoga routine?

Right now I don’t have one and am trying to work on that. What I used to do is practice daily in the morning for 30 minutes to an hour on my own, no videos. I also took a Yoga class for a semester in college and that was two days a week. read more..

Yoga For Beginners-Video Links

How do you get started with yoga? I'm completely lost x.x be descriptive please. Thank you xoxo

See right here, my friend! Yoga for Beginners! There are also some video links you can watch and go along with. If you don’t find that helpful, I will go into further detail for you. Please excuse the typos and such, I’m too lazy to fix it haha. (: read more..

Yoga For Beginners

how did you initialy lost all that weight? (i saw a 'before' picture/post) just eating right and doing yoga or.. what? :)

Mostly because it’s in my metabolism, to be honest. That photo was taken when I was in 10th grade so that’s a little under 4 years ago or so. I lost the 11 lbs total over a span of time before I was a healthy eater and I hardly did Yoga back then. I started eating healthy about a year ago, actually. Here’s the whole story on how I lost weight, all unintentionally.I lived with my dad on weekdays and mom on weekends and my dads’ house was, and still is, always stocked up on junk and that’s all I ate. I had frozen pizzas and hot pockets for midnight snacks, and drank tons of juice boxes, and literally all I ate on Sundays was fast food and junk from the gas station. After moving out of my dads’ house and fully into my moms’, I still ate the same but I ate less and I lost 5 pounds. Then over a year ago when I was dealing with my stomach problems from January-or -so to the beginning of July, I was eating a lot less junk and I brought my own food to school sometimes, and then in July I saw an urgent care doctor who told me to go gluten and dairy free and I had no idea what to do, and I was in my less-hungry phase (I hope you all understand what I’m talking about when I say that haha) and I pretty much only ate salad for a week and that was just really bad and I accidentally lost 6 pounds. I’m not sure when I’d lost it, if it was over the months or because I was told not to eat all the stuff I was used to, but that’s how I lost it all.But if you are aiming to lose weight, then yes, that’s how you want to do it. Eating right and exercise! (: I have a health for beginners page, and a yoga for beginners page (both that probably need updating but I’m too lazy to work on it) in the FAQ link if you need a bit of help (: read more..

Yoga

do you do yoga every day?

I used to but I’ve been very slow with my practice lately. Like I said with working out more often when I’m fully in my new house, I’ll do the same with Yoga. I can’t not do yoga daily when I have a lovely backyard and sun room (: read more..

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre-Buddhism For Beginners-Barnes And Noble-Ashtanga Yoga

do you know any good books to learn more about yoga? and buddhism too? thank you

I don’t have any books on Buddhism and do most of my reading/studying online. But here’s a few things that might help. I once sat in Barnes and Noble for a while skimming through Yoga books to see which one’s I’d want to be at some point (when I had money) and a few of them are here.

• Beth Shaw’s Yogafit (new YTT students have to have it. I have it and like it.)
• Om Yoga: A guide to daily practice - by Cyndi Lee
• Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual - by David Swenson
• Yoga: 101 Essential Tips - by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre
• Buddhism for Beginners - by Thubten Chodron
• buddhanet.net

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Weight Loss

First of all, thank you, you're an inspiration and you're so beautiful :) Anyway, I started eating healthy lately but I don't really work out, just 1-2 times a week (sit ups, hoops and a bit of yoga). I lost some weight though and I noticed that my tummy seemed to jiggle more than usual and it's kinda like.. jelly? Is this good or bad? Or is it just a part of weight loss? I hope you have a great d

Aw thank you so much! I’m glad that you have started eating healthy and that is even a great start for exercise. You’re doing something, and that’s what counts! I assume that is part of your Weight Loss. It likely that it’s the extra skin on the outside that hasn’t shrunk along with the fat that has been lost beneath it. You’re doing great (: And thank you! I hope you do as well, wherever you are (: read more..

Routine-Yoga

Hello! I am 17 and trying to fit working out and yoga into my busy daily activities, I was just wondering if you could possibly post a workout/yoga routine that is efficient? I think that your blog is refreshing and inspiring- thank you!

Hello! I’m not too sure what you’re looking for but I’ll link you to a few videos on my blog. We all prefer different exercises and different amounts of reps so I’m not sure I can really post a specific Routine. Maybe sometime in the future I’ll get an easy at home routine set up and will post it. Right now my brain isn’t functioning as clearly as I’d like. 

• Cardio Yoga
• Sun Salutations
• 15 Minute Morning Energizing Yoga Routine
• World’s Fastest Workout
• Spring Break workout, that of course can be applied daily still.
• A few ab workouts in a chart

And if you ever want to go and find this stuff on my blog, here’s the pages. You can find everything in the Index page! (:

• Page of videos
• Workouts page
• Videos page (some yoga, some workout, and other stuff)

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Health And Fitness-Mental Health-Btw

Hi I was hoping you could help me. I normally work out every day in some form (walking, yoga, etc) and eat pretty healthy. But these past 2 weeks I've done maybe one workout and been eating TERRIBLY (binge eating mainly). It's just taken a turn for the worse and I feel so hopeless and useless. I just can't get back into the swing of things with my health and fitness. Any advice or help please? I'm

Hello! Hmm.. I say just push yourself into it. When you are going to bed one night, get things ready for going to work out in the morning and go to bed with the mind set that you are going to work out when you wake up. That’s worked for me before. Then if you don’t feel like it, just do it anyway. That is just one workout, and that one could get you back into the groove. I think kicking yourself back into exercise will help you with your eating habits. Just buy all the good foods that you can. If you feel like a binge is coming on, do it on something good. Watermelon, grapes, strawberries, etc. That might help to eliminate the binge habit and get you back on track. Also, lots of fitness blogs! Just look at all of the photos of toned bodies doing workouts and tell yourself that is going to be you.I really hope this helped. I don’t think I’m all that great at answering these kinda of questions but I try! read more..

Upper Body-Shoulders-Muscle

Do you think yoga has helped you build some muscle? As in your upper body (arms, back, shoulders, etc.)?

Yeah, a bit but not as much as actually working out has…. which is still not very much. Right now I’m in a funk and not really doing any exercise (ugh :/), but when I did yoga regularly, I worked more on my flexibility than anything and would work out for the muscle. read more..

Progress Photos-Vegan Diet-Yoga

can you link your progress photos? :) also i have been on an organic vegan diet for a month or two and have been practicing yoga and working out 2-3 times a week, how long do you think it will take to start seeing results? im about 115 pounds.

I cannnnn if you message me non-anon for the link!I’m not sure what kind of results you would like to be seeing, muscle gain/get more tone or fat loss. Assuming you mean muscle, since you’re not at a high weight, it depends on how long and how hard you work out and what exactly you do when you are doing Yoga and working out. It’s all different for everyone, we all have different bodies and body types, so I couldn’t really tell you. I can say that you seem to be doing quite good! Just keep it up and be patient, you will see results. Take progress photos and compare, you will definitely see them more than you would be seeing yourself daily. (: read more..

Beginners Yoga-Hip Openers-Youtube

I recently hurt/pulled the front of my hip while exercising and was wondering if you could suggest some yoga poses that could possibly help stretch it! :))

Certainly! How’s this? (: Hip Openers. Some of those hip stretches should stretch the front of them as well. If you need/want more, let me know! read more..

Hi! What yoga videos would you recommend to an unflexible beginner with little time on her hands (10-15 minutes 6 days a week) who wants to become flexible and improve her running? Thank you! :)

Sorry it took me a bit to get back to this one! How do these work? The first 3 are videos on youtube and the bottom one is a post from my blog (:

• Yoga for Flexibility
• Beginners yoga for flexibility
• Yoga for runners
• Yoga poses for runners

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Yoga

Favorite yoga ish related blogs? :)

I can’t just pick a few to post. Healthysoul is definitely one of my favorites. But these are some (or all, I don’t know which) of the blogs that I follow that post Yoga stuff and who are talented yogi’s.

• http://healthysoul.tumblr.com/
• http://odolnost.tumblr.com/
• http://yogillama.tumblr.com/
• http://yogachild.tumblr.com/
• http://happyhealthysoul.tumblr.com/
• http://liliezencoach.tumblr.com/
• http://yogacrazy.tumblr.com/
• http://selfloveandhealth.tumblr.com/
• http://fuckyeahyoga.tumblr.com/
• http://arilumiere.tumblr.com/
• http://theyogiway.tumblr.com/
• http://365daysyoga.tumblr.com/
• http://dharmakicks.tumblr.com/
• http://balancepath.tumblr.com/
• http://eatyogalove.tumblr.com/
• http://yogaprivatelessons.tumblr.com/

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Meal Plans

I have been studying for finals and do not have the time currently to work out or do any yoga; can you give a small meal plan that won't let me really over eat while maintaining my weight. xx

Hm. I can try but I’m not too good with Meal Plans. One thing I suggest is to start a food journal and keep a track of your calories, even just an estimation of about how many you are consuming. You can use myfitnesspal for that or just do it in your journal. This will help you to know what, how often, and how much you are eating, and to make sure that you are getting enough calories, but not getting too many. If you put your weight, height, and how much you exercise into myfitnesspal, it should tell you how any calories, carbs, protein, and fats you should get daily. Also try to eat 3 small meals, and 3 snacks throughout the day. Writing your meal plan ahead of time will help a lot.As far as what you eat… I don’t know what you have or what you like to determine this. For breakfast - a cup of whole grain cereal with fruit, 2 small whole wheat pancakes with fruit, 1/2 cup oatmeal with fruit, a piece of toast with fruit, things like that. Lunch and dinner - a sandwich on whole wheat or whole grain with tomato, spinach or lettuce, a few slices of avocado, and maybe your choice of lean meat or just leave it. Maybe with some fruit on the side. a cup of whole wheat pasta or quinoa with marinara sauce, spinach or kale, diced tomato if not already in sauce, and your choice of protein whether that be beans on the side, shred some chicken in your pasta, or a lean ground meat like turkey or vegetarian ground ‘meat’. You could do a lot with squash. As said in previous asks… slice it length wise and add some veggies inside or slice it width wise and mix it up with some veggies. As far as snacks go, fruit always works, veggies and hummus, a small handful of trail mix, air popped pop corn. Buy it plain and if you want butter and/or salt, add a tiny but of sea salt and use a small bit of Earth Balance natural spreads. I hope this was at least of a little help. read more..

Would yoga help strengthen my muscles, like in my back and arms? Or is that just Pilates?

Would yoga help strengthen my muscles, like in my back and arms? Or is that just Pilates?

Yes, it will. Especially if you are doing poses that focus more on those area’s. Chaturanga and plank are two more simple, easy poses that will help you to build strength in those area’s. Then once you gain enough strength, you can move on to other poses… crow for example. If you want to, (girl) push ups and tricep dips will also help. read more..

Android-Yoga

do you think 2-3 hours of yoga a day are too much?

Wow! Go you! Haha. That’s a lot of Yoga but if you are listening to your body and not hurting it, then no… I think it’s fine. (: read more..

Instagram: deidreelliott

It was just released for Android so I am still trying to figure it out and stuff but I’m sure I will post some yoga and/or food pictures and stuff so feel free to follow (; read more..

Hi there, I started reading your Blog from yesterday and so far I love it! thanks :) I got curious to see your progress pictures if you don’t mind sharing them, also I would like to know more about what you did to achieve the results :)

Hi there, I started reading your Blog from yesterday and so far I love it! thanks :) I got curious to see your progress pictures if you don’t mind sharing them, also I would like to know more about what you did to achieve the results :)

Hello! I’m glad that you like it. I would prefer that you come off anon so I can send you the link. If not, maybe I could link it up for a bit or something. As far as the results go… I can’t really say that there are any. I am working on becoming more fit and definitely still working on gaining a bit of muscle. What I am doing though is just living a healthy lifestyle… Tons of healthy foods, yoga, working out, trying to spend more time doing outdoor activity. (: read more..

Unnecessary Details-Personal Questions-Strength Training-Body-Yoga

Do you do anything besides yoga? Like running/walking, or any strength training. You're body is like perfectly toned!

Yes I do, I sort of already have this answered in my personal questions page (I really need to update and detail that page more). I work out a few times a week. We hike sometimes in my fitness class in the hills behind the college and I love to be outdoors and want to go on more hikes/nature walks soon. I ran for about a month and loved to do it but before I go into unnecessary details, I stopped. Thank you! I would have to disagree though. I have a lot to work on (definitely my abs), but I really appreciate the compliment! read more..

Sun Salutations

Thanks! But there isn't an order you should follow right? Positions you should do first??

I’m not too sure, but I don’t think so. If you are warming up with yoga before getting more into the poses, you should do sun salutations. In the book I suggested, towards the end of the book it gives you series of poses to do for specific things (like for runners) so you could always go off of that if you wanted. read more..

Yoga Book

heey :) I want to try doing some yoga at home but I not really that video thing so I thought that maybe I could buy a yoga book and copy the positions. Do you think that'll be bad?

Helloooo (: You’re not into doing it with videos? No, I think it’s okay if you’re wanting to do that to start getting into Yoga. Just be sure to do them correctly and breathe correctly. If I may suggest Beth Shaw’s Yogafit. I have it and it’s full of poses, how to do and modify poses, breathing techniques, and more. read more..