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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would see this happen to people in yoga class, had no idea it was a thing and now i feel bad for internally judging. [/quote]

What were you judging?  I don't really understand.[/quote]

That someone is so emotionally fragile that they cry at yoga class[/quote]

It’s common to release and cry at yoga. Band we  all have been emotionally fragile at different times in our life. Does it make you uncomfortable to see others cry? It does me, I don’t want anybody to be sad. But try to pull out your empathy and remember those times when you were at your most fragile: break ups, divorce, death, miscarriages, grief, illness, loss.  If you’ve been repressing those feelings, your body doesn’t forget.  Yoga (or other exercise, I guess) can release them. And you cry. I intentionally did a lot of heart and hip openers once I realized I could release all this feelings I had ignored and bottled up. And I cried a lot.[/quote]

It does make me uncomfortable, and now I’m a little jealous. I have plenty of stress I can’t seem to let go, and would love it if i could find something that works. Daily exercise doesn’t seem to help[/quote]

DP:  Were you raised with a "suck it up, buttercup" kind of attitude and were sports or how you handled bodily injuries a part of that? This was my experience with both parents and coaches and which conditioned me to feel "strong" when I ignored pain and stress and led me to somewhat internally judge others who expressed emotions as "weak."  As I got older I changed my views and realized the strength in noticing and expressing emotions and the weakness in repressing and ignoring them. If you're like I was, you might have habits of tensing and containing stress during exercise that prevent it serving as stress release.  I just tried to notice this in my body and label it and gradually I grew out of it.  I don't find myself crying, but I do feel a wider range of emotions while exercising and feel more noticeable sense of stress relief from exercise. [/quote]

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