tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post1043059167912502045..comments2024-03-21T00:30:14.738-07:00Comments on Yoga in the Dragon's Den: Blogging Ennui: What I blog about when I have nothing to blog aboutNobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-55645719793994320562011-12-01T14:43:20.432-08:002011-12-01T14:43:20.432-08:00You're welcome, yoginicory. I hope you enjoy h...You're welcome, yoginicory. I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do :-)Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-35361892787074288642011-12-01T01:15:18.829-08:002011-12-01T01:15:18.829-08:00Ohhh. I should so check out his books then. THanks...Ohhh. I should so check out his books then. THanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-585392635210758422011-11-30T09:59:31.877-08:002011-11-30T09:59:31.877-08:00Thanks for the topic suggestions, Anonymous. They ...Thanks for the topic suggestions, Anonymous. They are very interesting. I especially like the one about the Protestant Work Ethic. I will keep this in mind. Thanks!Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-40302478976117931862011-11-30T09:58:00.563-08:002011-11-30T09:58:00.563-08:00Thanks for sharing, DeborahS. I think Freeman is d...Thanks for sharing, DeborahS. I think Freeman is definitely right that there comes a time when one needs to find some other reason to practice than collecting asanas. All I can say to this right now is that I'm not there yet: While I'm not exactly collecting asanas (not least because I'm in no position to do so, given the present state of my body...), I do have ambition. <br /><br />Like you, I'm also trying as much as possible to direct my attention to other things that can be worked on. Without quite intending to, I've found myself working more on my dropbacks and backbends in general. Hmm... maybe I can post on this in the near future. Maybe this will get me out of my blogging ennui...Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-74147835448413779992011-11-30T09:47:15.608-08:002011-11-30T09:47:15.608-08:00Thanks for commenting, Linda. I've never been ...Thanks for commenting, Linda. I've never been to the Lululemon website, although I'm really not surprised that the front page is full of people in yoga postures. But does that mean anything? If Sports Illustrated were to run a special yoga issue next week, full of models in yoga postures, and then claim itself to have become a yoga-inspired company, should we then start looking at Sports Illustrated as a publication dedicated to holistic yogic living, and overlook its capitalistic nature? <br /><br />Again, excuse me for saying this, but the fact that many people have come to see Lululemon as synonymous with yoga says more about these peoples' understanding of what yoga is about than about what Lulu really is: Lulu is a capitalistic machine through and through, and anybody who confuses it with anything else is either naive or seriously misguided. Do we have a responsibility to "educate" these people? Well, I don't know; I'm certainly not up to such a big responsibility :-)<br /><br />Hmm... it looks like I have more to say about this whole Lululemon business than I thought...Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-86469774805247618072011-11-30T08:17:11.759-08:002011-11-30T08:17:11.759-08:00I have some topics you could post on - what about ...I have some topics you could post on - what about those of us who feel like we could be cheating in yoga? How do you know when enough is enough, when you are striving enough, and when you are just going through the motions? And if you keep getting new poses without mastering the old ones, you feel like you're cheating, but to avoid that feeling, you strive for asana perfection, which isn't supposed to be ideal either (I know, you cannot really "master" a pose)<br />And, if you practice in a mysore room, how do you avoid the jealousy that comes with others getting more poses more quickly than you are - I personally attribute it to the nagging feeling that I've been "cheating", but if I let go of that (as I know I should) I am unable to reconcile how others can progress more quickly. Maybe this is all an elaborate construction stemming from the Protestant Work Ethic? <br />:) Some thoughts of yours on those would make a fantastic post, I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-26274801352682444972011-11-30T05:45:12.890-08:002011-11-30T05:45:12.890-08:00I am totally with you on the left knee thing. It ...I am totally with you on the left knee thing. It helps to focus on the poses that don't require the lotus, settle your ambitions upon improving the jumpthrough and solidifying pinca mayurasana or whatever. Of course now my shoulder hurts, so perhaps it is this ambition itself that is the problem. Someone wrote somewhere, I think it was yogarose about Richard Freeman's new book, that there comes a point where you have to find a different reason to practice than collecting asanas. But the ego, at least my ego, is having a hard time indeed missing the lotus in the primary series. Sometimes it does seem that the entire practice is mocking my injury. Good luck!DeborahShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02342199099292606304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-14682372557988701632011-11-29T17:26:18.102-08:002011-11-29T17:26:18.102-08:00"I just don't get what the fuss is about:..."I just don't get what the fuss is about: I've never had any illusions about what Lululemon is, i.e. a big corporation that tries to make a big buck (and does so very successfully, I have to say) under the guise of the "yoga lifestyle". So I really don't understand why everybody in the yoga world seems to be so up in arms about what Lulu is doing: Why is it so shocking to many folks that Lulu has chosen to blatantly trumpet its brazenly capitalistic outlook on its shopping bags?"<br /><br />THANK YOU! my feelings exactly! and when I said that on another yoga blog I was told: "i really disagree. lululemon still calls itself a “yoga-inspired” company. if you go to their website, the front page is full of people in yoga poses. their community ambassadors are local yoga teachers. in my city, lululemon organizes free public yoga events attended by 400+ people."Linda-Samahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07664989345039365084noreply@blogger.com