Email to My Yoga Teacher

Category: Yoga

  • Toga! Toga! I Mean Yoga Yoga

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    Amy, It was my first yoga class in a while and it felt weird.  I mean, what’s the perception of someone who hasn’t been to a yoga class in a while?  As I looked at all the bodies flat on the ground, all I could think of was John Belushi, I mean Bluto, in Animal…

  • Yoga Games

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    Tammy, You know the swimming pool game Marco Polo?  What if yoga teachers played a similar game called pada gustasana?  I kinda like the rhythm, pada        gustasana                              pada        gustasana. How ’bout Whispering Down the Lane sahaja bhujangasana and see what the last person…

  • A little Yogi

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    Tammy, Saturday morning I took an outdoor yoga class.  I placed my mat down before class and immediately went into my routine pre-class corpse, or savasana, pose.  I try to establish my goal of being non-judgmental for the class.  When I looked up to see if class was starting I noticed a little girl on…

  • Rock & Roll Yoga

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    Tammy, Saturday I went to a rock & roll yoga class. At the beginning of class I heard Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ over the speaker system, except something was different.  Usually my mind thinks exclusively of the hot, skateboarding woman in the video.  This time I was actually listening to the lyrics and for the…

  • Yoga Battle of the Sexes

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    Tammy, Today I arrived about ten minutes early for your class.  I was the fourth person there.  To my surprise the three other people were guys.  I set my mat up where I usually do; this is apparently now the “men’s” side.  More people started arriving; they were women.  In fact, four women showed up…