Tammy,<\/p>\n
While waiting for yoga class the other day, I did a little yogic thinking.\u00a0 I guess these emails suggest I might do that once in a while.\u00a0 When yoga teachers say that it is my class, I figure that means I focus on me and do the best I can; stopping only if I have trouble with a pose.\u00a0 On this day, I did something uncharacteristic and intentionally watched the others.\u00a0 No, I’m not a perv, just curious.\u00a0\u00a0 I never knew how much other students disregard the professional yoga teacher’s instructions and do whatever they want.\u00a0\u00a0 What’s up with that?\u00a0 I noticed a woman doing savasana the whole class.\u00a0 Why get out of bed for an early morning yoga class to just lay on the ground when you could have been snoozing away in a comfy bed?\u00a0 Then I saw the little duckling pose.\u00a0 That’s where the mother brings two daughters below ten years old and they try to imitate their mom; in other words, a yoga class of three.\u00a0 It was cute, especially when the girls couldn’t keep up with the flow and didn’t get totally frustrated.\u00a0 With more yoga practice, one day all the ducks will be in a row and will be joining the rest of us.\u00a0 How about the muscle dude in the front row?\u00a0 When we flowed, instead of upward dog, he did a headstand.\u00a0 I was shocked when I first saw it and thought maybe that was how advanced yogis do the pose.\u00a0 Then I realized he was just trying to impress the hot woman next to him.<\/p>\n
I know it’s their yoga, but how do you teach your yoga when so many people are freestyling?<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, While waiting for yoga class the other day, I did a little yogic thinking.\u00a0 I guess these emails suggest I might do that once in a while.\u00a0 When yoga teachers say that it is my class, I figure that means I focus on me and do the best I can; stopping only if I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[12,19,8,71,20,21],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-yoga-3","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-blog","tag-yoga-pose","tag-yoga-style","tag-yoga-teacher-2","tag-yoga-training"],"yoast_head":"\n