You’ve practiced with them on YogaGlo. You’ve followed them on Facebook. You might even take their classes in person once in awhile if they travel to or live in your city. But how well do you know our YogaGlo teachers? Ask a Yogi is back so you can learn more about our teachers by asking questions you’ve always wanted to ask.
From favorite poses and tips for beginners to deeper questions about how their practice has changed their worldview, our teachers will collectively answer a new question each week. If you have a question you’d like to “Ask a Yogi” let us know in the comments and we’ll add your questions to the list.
What other forms of exercise do you enjoy participating in regularly? How does that inform your yoga practice & vice versa?
Alex van Frank: My yoga practice is influenced by my running, biking, hiking, swimming, dancing, and playing with children and dogs. In turn, yoga has helped make me more mindful, agile and focused in how I move my body and how I react to external influences.
Amy Ippoliti: I enjoy cycling, stand up paddle boarding, hiking, skate skiing, and resistance training. They all make my yoga practice tighter, but they keep my body feeling so healthy and strong (both on and off the mat), it’s worth it!
Chris Chapple: Swim, walk, and bicycle! Breath, counting, and movement suffuse all four! Rhythm arises from the ancient Vedic word Ritam, that sacred moment of everything being exactly where it needs to be.
Claire Missingham: I started running half-marathons and competing in triathlons in the past couple of years. I do HIIT training alongside the swimming, cycling and running and they are great for keeping my strength up – I notice such a difference in my ability to keep going. I also have noticed my thighs are considerably more muscular and my hamstrings tighter from all the triathlon training!! … but I don’t think it’s a bad thing I’m more balanced now with strength and flexibility rather than just being flexible with no power.
David Harshada Wagner: The two main things I enjoy are trail running/walking, and kickboxing. They are so different from an asana practice that happens on a mat in such a non-violent way. The trail work gets me out and moving through nature which I love so much and the striking work gives the more aggressive aspects of my nature healthy ways to express themselves. These both get something out of my system that allows me to enjoy my yoga mat more. And both are also pretty high-impact on my body, so the asana work is really necessary to balance the impact of the running or striking.
Felicia Tomasko: I began yoga since I was a committed and dedicated runner and yoga was my cross-training and way to maintain a focus on my breath and a sense of ease and comfort in my own body. Over the years, I’ve also been a dedicated bicyclist and find that yoga helps work out all the kinks that can develop from hours spent bent over handlebars. I’ve kayaked and canoed, and yoga has always been my cross-training. I still run, hike, and now lift weights and find that yoga always helps me maintain a sense of ease, suppleness, strength, and balance in my own body.
Kia Miller: I love getting out into nature. I consider nature the great equalizer. I walk, hike, sometimes run for the sheer joy of it. It is an essential part of living in this body. My asana practice keeps my muscles strong, yet limber and makes everything else I do physcially more joyful.
Noah Maze: Yoga is the only form of exercise that I do inside. Everything else is outside. I live in LA, so we have nice weather all the time, but unfortunately no snow (otherwise I would have back country skiing listed below). When I have time, I love to cycle. I ride my kids to school and commute to the studio on my cargo bike. When I can, I love to get on my road bike and ride the canyons in the Santa Monica Mountains. When I have more time I will ride my cyclocross bike or my mountain bike on the fire roads and trails. The balance, breathing, coordination, focus and rhythm of cycling is entirely complementary with my asana practice. Cycling tightens the hip flexors quite a bit, so I counterpose cycling with backbends and inversions. I love to hike with my dogs and my kids. Sometimes we pound up to the top of the mountain like a hard vinyasa practice, other time we meander and explore and play. I counterpose hiking with calf stretches and hamstring stretches like Downward Facing Dog Pose and quadricep and hip flexor stretches like Reclined Hero Pose (Supta Virasana).
Sally Kempton: I walk and dance and do a bit of tai chi. Also, my main practice is meditation. My physical practice has become infused with the spirit of tai chi and dance. In other words, I try to practice asana as a subtle flow of movement and stillness—a moving meditation.
Steven Espinosa: I love playing with my dog, Uma and taking her for walks or hikes. It’s also a great reminder on how to stay present and enjoy the moment.
Tara Judelle: I love dance and free movement. Regularly I put on music and move around wherever I am staying (since I have been nomadic for the past seven years). I look at asana as aspecific container for energy, so free movement allows for innovation, and creative expression. I also love African Dance, and anything that creates a different body vocabulary.
Taylor Harkness: HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is awesome for yogis as well as rowing, boxing, and any work with weights to bring a more refined and determined strength to the yoga practice.
Tiffany Cruikshank: I don’t have one thing I do regularly other than yoga but I love being outdoors and I grew up dancing, running and playing tennis so I love those but I’m not consistent with any of it now. I am constantly inspired by all sorts of movement and sports though.
source https://blog.yogaglo.com/2017/01/what-other-forms-of-exercise-do-you-enjoy-participating-in-regularly/
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