Yoga is awesome

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

I decided to try it out because I'd heard of people
who started doing yoga, and after some time,
quit smoking "automatically" or something.
After only 4 classes I'm starting to get little tastes of how that might work.
For a couple hours or so after class, I can feel the physical craving,
but it's like my mind is simultaneously super-conscious of it and also
disconnected from it. It's a very cool feeling!
Maybe I'll start going twice a week instead of once.

Also I'd heard of people being overcome by emotion doing yoga.
Today in class there were a couple points where I was filled
with happiness and mirth from "out of nowhere"

[I Have A Dream]

1. I never heard of the smoking thing. That's realy interesting!

I'm glad that you found something that works so well for you, Crab Nebula.

[Flying Dream Blues]

2. Interesting you should post this CN...I've really been wanting to start yoga and

I would love it if it would help me with my cravings. Mine are food related. :) Good luck with it...sounds like it's really doing you good, both physically and emotionally!
:hi:

[Celebration]

3. from the Health Forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x37915

About yoga and CHF........these results are really, really good.

Yoga gets all chakras and meridians in balance. That may be what is happening.

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

4. heart chakra opening?

what does that feel like?

during one class some of the poses caused pain around my hips.
That night when I went to bed those areas felt blissful and happy,
with the sensation spreading down my legs.
This week there was one night I went to bed and that feeling enveloped my whole body,
with a pleasant hot sensation near my solar plexus.

My teacher mentioned that about yoga and chakra balancing at the end of last class.
Awesome!