What do you think about meditation and yoga? What has your experience been like? Feel free to share your story here if you’d like.
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Meditation feels like it would be me sitting down and pacing in my mind until I eventually get annoyed about all the metaphorical pacing I did.
Yoga intimidates me because I know I will never be that flexible and any woman who can do it is probably really hot so I’d likely overthink talking to her. 🧐
I wish I was more patient lol It's hard to relax when I have a million things to do
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My middle school gym teacher taught us yoga instead of making us run or play basketball. Been a huge fan since lol. Though as a guy, I've always felt it would be awkward to go to a yoga class so I haven't done any yoga, or pilates in a long time.
I know what you mean. There are some yoga classes I have gone to where I am the only man, and feel out of place. I sometimes get the impression that some women there are a bit bothered by it as well. I can say however that Jivamukti Yoga attracts a fair deal of men. Don't you live in New York? Aren't there a lot of men who do yoga there as well?
Meditation for me was life-changing. I got very into Dzogchen, and later zen buddhism. I started reading the Tibetan text Kunyed Gyalpo, and would meditate on it daily. After a month i had my first experience with ego-death that was so powerful that I was shaking the entire next day, and became vegetarian over night because of the realization that I could have been the animal I was eating, and in some ways I WAS the animal I was eating. I was lucky in that I had my first zen training the next day, so I got to talk to the teacher about it. He smiled and said "it is a shock the first time you escape the matrix". It was nice to talk to someone that understood and didn't see me as crazy. I got so obsessed with it that I even started an organisation dedicated to the study of mysticism, to try and make sense of what happened.