Butter Cookie Yoga Question

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Hi Mary Ann -

 

I feel like I'm being objectified here, although I am kind of enjoying

it!!! Isn't laughter just wonderful? The men here are usually too

serious except for Len.

 

Okay, it might be a problem with the positon or angle of the pelvis

because the hip and legs don't quite line up right to start with.

That is why I started into Pilates to help correct that or at least

keep the IT band stretched. I only started doing yoga last Spring and

stopped over Summer so I'm still a newbie here. I am getting the

postures right and my strength and balance is much better than when I

started earlier this year. I'm still working out the positions. I

was thinking, too, that the kundalini experience has made me more

aware of my body from the solarplexus down. The problem might have

been there before, but I just wasn't aware.

 

The standard sport cups or athletic supporters would probably create

more problems than not because they don't usually pull the penis and

the scrotum up and against the body. A woman friend of mine who was a

dancer told me to see about something called a "dance belt" and see if

that would work. I purchased one Friday and tried it today. It's not

perfect but is a big improvement. There are other kinds of support

available that wrestlers and baseball players use. There are other

designs for dancers. It is apparently it is more of an issue than I

thought.

 

The teacher may not be as experienced as I need. I don't have a body

that lends it self well to yoga because my arms seem too short and my

legs too long. I had been thinking of doing a flow class but a

hathayoga class might be the way to go. You have been hinting at that.

 

With all that said, as a male member of the group when I'm about 20

pounds lighter I'll consider posing in my spandex bicycle pants.

 

;-)

 

Eric

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, "Mary Ann"

 

<buttercookie61> wrote:

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> Hi Eric:

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> I am wondering if the problem might also have to do with the

> position or angle of your pelvis. I have had difficulty with my

> pubic bone jutting into the floor and I know that it has to do with

> the angle of my pelvis (which angle is changing since I stopped

> taking yoga "flow" classes and started seriously working with a

> hathayoga teacher who is well-grounded in body mechanics as well as

> the relationship of same to the rest of one's being).

>

> What about a "sports cup" for yogis, would that be totally

> uncomfortable? It could be extremely fashionable for men the way

> thongs under sweatpants are for women in yoga classes...it would be

> a thong for men.

>

> Mary Ann

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