Emotions during Yoga - anger/agression w/ Warrior pose

[Shallah Kali]

A few days ago I did a workout dvd for the first time that had some yoga thrown in mostly Warrior and Triangle poses. After the first few times I did them I started feeling angry and almost gritting my teeth and grimacing like I was going to growl each time I did it. This threw me for a loop so it wasn't until after I finished it that I though of actively working with the emotion while doing the workout doi! Anyhoo as I am new to yoga has anyone else ever felt something like this?

I do know I need to balance myself more instead of avoiding my male/yang energies which is probably why emotion came up. Or maybe it is just cellular memories being stimulated by movement for release. In any case I think it would do me good to learn more of yoga and maybe particuarly 'power' poses like these and this time remember to breath into the emotions.

[Celebration]

1. I would bet on the cellular memory

Talk to massage therapists and rolfers about this. Some people start weeping or have some other emotion when they get manipulated. I remember my daughter wept through an entire massage once.

Also, once I went to a kind of channeling session that sort of freaked me out at the time. The guy was reading minds and there were things I definitely didn't want revealed about myself. So, naturally he said that I had my doubts about it. But there were people there that were highly into all this stuff, and they went up there and sort of got into an altered state, and it looked like they were in the lion pose of yoga and they actually started growling. ROAR, ROAR--as if it was some sort of release. So I do think yoga poses are sometimes used for things like this.

I'm a little bit too inhibited for all this and have never attended a similar event. But, yes, yoga type poses can be used to release things. That was my point.

[Shallah Kali]

2. I have had many emotional releases during bodywork such as accupuncture

but they were all of the fear and grief spectrum. I have gotten used to my eyes seeping tears or even breaking into sobs at times. I have even laughed uncontrollably for nearly 30 minutes during the treatment after my reiki 1 attunement which worried the master who called over another master who was exchanging treatments with another student to try to stop my relentless giggling and chortling which got the other students going and set the massage tables a rattling. I just felt so good I was overflowing with joy I couldn't help but have a giggle fit.

In this case it was the anger that threw me. I have worked hard to actually let myself be angry when I am angry instead of flat out suppressing it or turning it in on myself like I used to do. I didn't want to be a bully who took out my frustration on innocent bystanders the way other certain people in my family were so I suppressed it. It took me along time just to accept the fact that there is such a thing a healthy anger. What matters is what I do with the energy. I can use anger to strengthen myself when standing up for myself or another. I can use it as fuel when working to change something that made me angry. I think of the Volcano Goddess Pele and how with her lava she makes new land. Used wisely anger can be used to unmake mistakes and make a fresh start instead of just blindly destroying everything in it's way. I knew yoga was healing but I didn't know it would be this potent when I didn't even get any where near the full range of the position as the instructor did!

[Matariki]

3. I've heard of this before.

and I always thought I was getting angry because of the instructor's 'la-la' way of speaking, if you know what i mean...

[Shallah Kali]

4. by la-la do you mean sing-song? My pet peeve is instructors like Denise Austin

too perky and cheerleaderly for the likes of me. I much prefer instructors who simply give instruction with good form pointers instead of lots of 'you can do it!' and wooing.

[Celebration]

5. hahaha

I'm with ya there. I actually like the Allie McGraw yoga video. Why? She is just a participant, and has her yoga instructor telling us what to do. It is visually a beautiful video, very calming and with the White Sands Monument as a backdrop. It is the opposite of the perky cheerleader approach.

[Shallah Kali]

7. Do you have any other videos that you like?

I am working on being more physically fit and want to find a nice variety of videos to do. I want variety so I won't get bored and even more importantly so I work as many muscles in as many ways as I can. I also would love it it has a nice background. I did part of a pilates type video I got through netflix the other day by Karen voight and it was soooo gloomy and dark - and the soundtrack was eleveder music type modern jazz :( I love new age, classical and enjoy pop, classic country, classic jazz and world music. Elevader music of any sort and modern jazz makes me :crazy:

I am a newbie to yoga and am not fit nor flexible enough for the anything advanced yet but will modify and use props to keep myself safe. If my bod will only go a few inches so be it. eventually I will get safely into more range of motion.:crazy: right now I have Element Yoga at the top of my Netflix q so if I am lucky I can try it out tuesday to see if it suites me. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Element_Mind_Body_Experience_Yoga_for_Beginners/70082414?trkid=226871

[Celebration]

9. I only have yoga videos

The other video I have is AM PM yoga, which is a kind of a standard. It is for beginners, and only lasts about twenty minutes for each one, which is good. The video itself is fine, but slightly annoying at the beginning when you have to sit through a mini advertisement. Oh I have a VHS tape of Lilias, which is done in a chair, and for people that are not proficient in yoga at all. Most of it is done in a chair. The McGraw one is the most advanced, but you can skip a few parts at first. It is about 45 minutes.

I would go to amazon.com and read the reviews and you will get a good idea about what you are getting.

[Matariki]

6. Yep! That annoying *breathy* sing-song. Along with annoying instructions to 'surrender to the floor'

Whatever *that* means!

I usually go to yoga on my lunch break - wanting a good workout, not someone else's idea of a spiritual lecture. There, I said it. (I guess I'm a crabby-puss). And I'm saying this as someone whose practices include Tantra, which has a relation to yoga. None-the-less, I find myself getting unusually annoyed with what seems to be the requisite, breathy, faux-spiritual rambling from many instructors. Someone suggested to me that it might actually be stress relief from the poses I'm feeling - or at least exaggerating my irritation. :shrug:

[rumpel]

8. I have not done yoga in quite a while

and that is truly one of the things I would like to start up again.
I never had such an experience.
There seem to be many styles and teachers, but my yoga experience was with a student of Kanjitsu Iijima as my teacher in my late teens. At the time I stopped because I attracted all sorts of animal spirits , while practicing alone with the meditation part, and it spooked me. Many years later, I was fortunate enough to have one session with the late Iijima Sensei himself.
It was always soothing and inspiring to me - I am rather surprised to hear of anger, and would love to hear if others also experienced any anger....