I wish I had started weight lifting when I started yoga. I started practicing at 40 which is pretty late. At 57 I had a hip replacement (not necessarily due to yoga). So I started weight lifting 1 year before my surgery to prep and never stopped. Yes, I may be a little less flexible but I’m deadlifting 250 pounds and I’m only 115 pounds. At 61, post menopausal, and having a slight frame, weightlifting is pretty important to help prevent osteoporosis, osteopenia, and prevention of injury if I was to take a fall. I never was one to gain muscle just by Ashtanga alone. Maybe because I never got past first and second series. I think weightlifting is a great complement to yoga. I do pay a college educated exercise physiologist to train me once a week. Well worth it. I never looked at Ashtanga as a form of exercise, other than exercise for my lungs and brain. The new research on weight training and it’s benefits of preventing cognitive decline is really interesting too.
as you say, yoga isn’t a form of exercise - or at least, that’s not its best use.. Especially if at least the first three series aren’t available. Impressive deadlift by the way! amazing , keep it up!! 🎉
Great interview and message. For me, even basic elements of strength training and strength based yoga asanas beside the Ashtanga sequences (for example side planks, bulgarian squats and bridge pose variations) have been essential to stop self-injuring myself in yoga asana. I think that would be true to many yogis, especially those hypermobile ones. Now I take first steps at the gym, and I only feel better and more stable in my asana. Thanks for a great episode ❤
yes, i don’t know where we got this usage of asana as if it were a whole body conditioning system, but it’s really not… It very much falls down on the strength part. I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the episode ; going to the gym was a taboo for serious yoga students so we’re still working on breaking that !
Another great episode! Interesting how Prasad moves the language away from 'east vs west' when it comes to modern yoga (or popular yoga as he refers to it) - I've only been to India once, but I saw very much the popular yoga in Mumbai and Bangalore as well as the more devotional, bhakti, pilgrimage forms Prasad talks of in rural areas in south Kerala where I was staying. I think what's really coming through for me at the moment, following your podcasts, Adam, as well as conversations with others and wider reading, is that in the west we like to compartmentalise a lot more and divide things up, whereas in Hinduism and Indian culture, there's not as much of that going on - it's much more of a melting pot and everyone seems totally okay with that. Thanks again for helping me organise my thinking on all of this and keep up the great work out there! :)
Important because you go to yoga class and they don't understand that you're sore and have lost your flexibility and at the gyms they encourage you to go right after yoga and you don't know whether to give it days in between and it just seems counterproductive
Here I found serious problem with your channel 1. ✗ Less views 2. ✗Low SEO Score 3. ✗ No tag count 4. ✗ No tag volume 5. ✗ Title contains no keywords 6. ✗ No keywords in description 7. ✗ No triple keywords 8. ✗ No ranked tags 9. ✗ No high volume-ranked tags 10. ✗ Longer titles 11. ✗ Small tags 12. ✗ No video tags 13. ✗ No channel tags 14. ✗ No social media promotion This is why your video is not in the top results. Do you want to increase your channel's SEO score? And want to take your video to the top result?
Great Interview. Prasadji lives in the dynamic balance between traditional and modern yoga and thus can express yoga in everything he does.
that’s a good way to put it!!
I wish I had started weight lifting when I started yoga. I started practicing at 40 which is pretty late. At 57 I had a hip replacement (not necessarily due to yoga). So I started weight lifting 1 year before my surgery to prep and never stopped. Yes, I may be a little less flexible but I’m deadlifting 250 pounds and I’m only 115 pounds. At 61, post menopausal, and having a slight frame, weightlifting is pretty important to help prevent osteoporosis, osteopenia, and prevention of injury if I was to take a fall. I never was one to gain muscle just by Ashtanga alone. Maybe because I never got past first and second series. I think weightlifting is a great complement to yoga. I do pay a college educated exercise physiologist to train me once a week. Well worth it. I never looked at Ashtanga as a form of exercise, other than exercise for my lungs and brain. The new research on weight training and it’s benefits of preventing cognitive decline is really interesting too.
as you say, yoga isn’t a form of exercise - or at least, that’s not its best use.. Especially if at least the first three series aren’t available. Impressive deadlift by the way! amazing , keep it up!! 🎉
Great interview and message. For me, even basic elements of strength training and strength based yoga asanas beside the Ashtanga sequences (for example side planks, bulgarian squats and bridge pose variations) have been essential to stop self-injuring myself in yoga asana. I think that would be true to many yogis, especially those hypermobile ones. Now I take first steps at the gym, and I only feel better and more stable in my asana. Thanks for a great episode ❤
yes, i don’t know where we got this usage of asana as if it were a whole body conditioning system, but it’s really not… It very much falls down on the strength part. I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the episode ; going to the gym was a taboo for serious yoga students so we’re still working on breaking that !
Another great episode! Interesting how Prasad moves the language away from 'east vs west' when it comes to modern yoga (or popular yoga as he refers to it) - I've only been to India once, but I saw very much the popular yoga in Mumbai and Bangalore as well as the more devotional, bhakti, pilgrimage forms Prasad talks of in rural areas in south Kerala where I was staying. I think what's really coming through for me at the moment, following your podcasts, Adam, as well as conversations with others and wider reading, is that in the west we like to compartmentalise a lot more and divide things up, whereas in Hinduism and Indian culture, there's not as much of that going on - it's much more of a melting pot and everyone seems totally okay with that. Thanks again for helping me organise my thinking on all of this and keep up the great work out there! :)
Important because you go to yoga class and they don't understand that you're sore and have lost your flexibility and at the gyms they encourage you to go right after yoga and you don't know whether to give it days in between and it just seems counterproductive
i think we all have to experiment with how to combine the two most effectively. Not easy, but try to listen to how you feel not what others say.
Here I found serious problem with your channel
1. ✗ Less views
2. ✗Low SEO Score
3. ✗ No tag count
4. ✗ No tag volume
5. ✗ Title contains no keywords
6. ✗ No keywords in description
7. ✗ No triple keywords
8. ✗ No ranked tags
9. ✗ No high volume-ranked tags
10. ✗ Longer titles
11. ✗ Small tags
12. ✗ No video tags
13. ✗ No channel tags
14. ✗ No social media promotion
This is why your video is not in the top results.
Do you want to increase your channel's SEO score? And want to take your video to the top result?