Re: The Spiritual Journey of a new Kind of Bodybuilder

Very cool!

So what’s the intersection between yoga and strength training from your perspective and experience?

If you’d like to take a stab at it!

Peace
~R

Re: The Spiritual Journey of a new Kind of Bodybuilder

Sorry it took so long to respond.

I think the intersection is breathe for sure….and also focus. The past couple of years I have been doing a lot of yin yoga, holding the seated/laying pose for 5 minutes and really allowing my muscles and my mind to go deep. I have also incorporated my journal into the process; really wanting to see what I wanted as the end result and also why I was doing what I was doing.

I think it is important to get your ego out of it. Everytime my ego gets involved, I get too sore, can't recover, get sick or get injured. And I have to allow my body, internal and otherwise, to be what it is wanting to be.

I am not as lean, by far, but I am happy. And my gut is happy. That bodybuilding lifestyle, the strict way I did it, can wreck havoc on one's internal organs!