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I'm a yoga teacher. Yoga really changed my life before the Asperger diagnosis changed it again. There are many different yoga traditions and yoga teaching styles to be tried. Generally in the gyms the yoga tend to be more dynamic and tough. In the yoga studios you can find really calm classes with low lighting and white walls. In yoga studios the teachers tend to touch and correct more than in a big class in a gym, but many teachers ask you to tell if you don't like it.
A great alternative is online classes. You can find some of varied quality on youtube for free (lending eyes and ears to some really annoying commercials...). I Really enjoy using Yogaglo that has a monthly subscription. There I can choose between different teachers, length of classes (5 min to 120 min), and areas of the body to be worked on. I am sure there are several good offers online to choose from.
I think the most important thing, whether in a class or by your self, is to use yoga to get to know your body with its strengths, spaciousness, tightness and weaknesses. Accept it and work with it. When you deny it trouble may develop.

I am a certified instructor but I don't teach,it didn't end up being the right thing for me.But I do my own practice almost daily,which is asthanga based.I feel really calm and happy and body strong and flexible afterwards.I've been doing yoga on and off for ten years now.It really helps me neurologically,to calm and stimulate the brain.When I slacked off recently I went through depression again,so I won't ever again! So vital to my general health and wellbeing.

I've been doing it twice a week for the last few months now. I gave it a shot at my gym just for fun and loved it. I spend a good amount of time at the gym, 5 to 6 days a week, alternating strength and conditioning and Yoga is just as intense and exhilarating. But what really got me is that all though the work out can be just as tough and you feel just as much, even more of a burn, than any other kind of cardio work out, when you're done you're much more invigorated and relaxed.

I also do yoga in the comfort and peace of my own home. I absolutely hate gyms, they give me a huge sensory overload before even starting the class, plus there's also the issue of unwelcomed physical contact from the instructor.

I currently follow an online yoga program and it helps. I do it every day, it makes me feel relaxed and happy for a couple of hours after, and it helps me connect to my body and be a bit more aware of it. It's really helped with meltdowns, they still occur but less often, I am more aware of the changes in my body so I can take steps to either remove myself from whatever it is causing the meltdown, or take any other necessary steps to reduce its impact. And it has helped with my breathing, I would hold my breath a lot before without realizing, but now I notice if I'm starting to do it and revert to yoga breathing.

It makes me feel good and I love it!