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I just started doing yoga and both times I've found myself blubbering after wards. I hope this is normal. Maybe it's a release thing, like when one gets a massage?

It happens.

I just started doing yoga about a month ago. I haven't cried yet, but I usually feel a nice release from the tension that's built up over the week. It could be that crying for you is the way your body & mind react to such a 'sudden' release of tension in your body.

Yes its quite normal. Go with it!

I've had this happen quite a few times. The relaxation at the end always leaves me feeling very mellow and often tears seem like the normal response for me when I feel like that, so I would agree - definitely just a form of release.

Yoga does one of two things, leaves me feeling incredibly happy in a spacey way or less frequently makes me cry. Either way I always come away feeling so much better.

I get irritable after. It makes me feel like I'm doing it "wrong" because most people are relaxed.

happens to me too sometimes. lately i've been taking ashtanga yoga and i've had some awesome releases afterwards. i'm usually crying on the way home. they're kinda happy cries though.

It really is a thing. I've been so embarrassed in the past (but I shouldn't be, etc...). I always think it feels great after the fact.

Totally normal, and totally good for you! It means you're letting things out. It's good stuff.

Its definitely a good thing, means you relaxed and any stress build up is being released. Half the time, we don't realise how stressed we are even when we feel okay :)

This happens to me any time I do any work out, yoga especially. I feel a little better knowing it happens to other folk too!

This happened to me last weekend! I took yoga in college and never cried, and I've taken 3 classes this past month, and nothing--then after 2 classes this past weekend, bam! tears on the way home, out of nowhere!

I've had a couple of yoga teachers who have mentioned in class that it's normal to cry. According to them (and I believe it) we hold a lot of tension and emotions in our muscles, and as the muscles relax and warm up, the feelings come out. I've definitely been there.

Bekki: I've also been there! If I'm taking a class that's more exercise focused than meditation, and I forget that it's not a competition, I get really pissed. My balance isn't great, so if I'm in the mood, I get so frustrated about not being able to do a pose that all of the good vibes are replaced with grrr.

Yep, it's happened to me at the end of the class when meditating. It really does feel like a release thing.

It's also normal to fall asleep at that time too... which totally did not happen to me at my first class after having Ezra. And I totally did not snore loudly. No. Not at all.

Sometimes I cry after yoga. It's more like tears just coming out - no sobbing or bawling like crazy, but I do sometimes feel more emotional. Also, I always fall asleep in the meditation part at the end. haha

It's comforting to know that happens to others, too!

I was like that my first few classes. I thought something was wrong with me or that I was really more stressed than I knew, but now I think it's just some of the "baggage" that we all have being released.

It hasn't happend to me, but I remember it did happen to a new student in a class I was in once. She was embarrassed, but the teacher assured her it was normal.
In this class I'm in now, with this teacher, I often leave with the happy spacey feeling, but this is the first class that has ever done that for me. I don't know if it's this teacher, or if I'm different now, but I think it's more the way this teacher runs her class.

i felt very weepy after yoga today. it felt normal, though. i was reaching some of those emotions during the meditative parts of my practice today and in the privacy of my car on the way home, i was able to let it all hang out.

I always cry at how sadly inflexible I am