Having taught yoga once upon a time, I'm always reminded about how much I miss a regular practice! It's physical, yes -- but also meditative and spiritual. Do you practice?
I love yoga! I mostly do Bikram yoga though
Bikram is *intense*! 90 minutes and the *heat*. Here in a Texas summer, all you need to do is step outside to practice those 26 postures ;-)
Haha, don't I know it, here in Florida, it like's to treat heat like a full time job.
Ashtanga vinyasa yoga
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a style of yoga as exercise created by K. Pattabhi Jois during the 20th century, often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Indian yoga. The style is hot and energetic, synchronising breath with movements. The individual poses (asanas) are linked by flowing movements (vinyasas).
Jois established his Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in 1948. The current style of teaching is called Mysore style after Mysore, India where the practice was originally taught. Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga has given
that Yoga to the People would not present Bikram Yoga.
Despite not having a court-ordered obligation to do so, Yoga to the People ceased to present Bikram Yoga postures in its studios and instead began using its own postures. Of the settlement, Bikram said ""I win, he lose, and that's it... Nobody will ever be able to steal Bikram yoga anymore."
Bikram's Yoga College v. Evolation Yoga.
Evolation Yoga was founded by a previous associate of Bikram Choudhury. Choudhury similarly