Email to My Yoga Teacher

Category: Yoga Pose

  • Did I Go to the Wrong Yoga Class?

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    Tammy, I went to today’s yoga class with the intention of watching the teacher carefully so I could perfect my poses.  When we walked into the studio I looked for the spot right in front of the teacher.  Shucks, taken.  I placed my mat right behind an old guy.  I put my water bottle and…

  • How Much Yoga is Too Much?

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    Tammy, This week I took three yoga classes.  Is that too much? I’m afraid if I practice yoga too much I may become severely depressed if I can’t get the poses right.  I wonder what kind of side effects the yoga Prozac presents. I might start dreaming about doing yoga outdoors and end up severely…

  • Is Yoga Supposed to Feel Like This?

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    Tammy, In the past couple of weeks I’ve had a couple of peculiar yoga classes. In the first one, the teacher told us to get into child’s pose.  I complied and then she promptly sat on my bum. In the other class, the teacher had us do a pose I’ve never heard of and I…

  • Yoga Hating Poses

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    Tammy, I know yogis are not supposed to hate on anything but there are a few poses I find less than desirable. First there is half standing forward bend.  I bet I look like the hunchback of Notre Dame when doing this pose.  I don’t think any teacher has corrected this pose of mine because…

  • Favorite Yoga Poses

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    Tammy, I thought I’d let you know which are my favorite yoga poses, even though I am not an expert at any of them. First there is the rarely done frog pose.  With legs out wide you feel helpless and get the feeling you taste like chicken. Pigeon pose produces a pain like no other…

  • Yoga Makes Us Laugh

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    Tammy, Last night I went to a beach yoga class. I guess beach yoga puts a lot of things in perspective.  Yoga is there for us to laugh at ourselves.  We go to a place of nature and try to act naturally.  We put our body into a pose to resemble a tree.  The wind…

  • Side Angle Pose Reflection

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    Tammy, As you know, I normally keep my eyes closed in yoga class.  That way I won’t feel any pressure to compare myself to my classmates.  Okay, I admit it: the real reason is that I don’t want to see the scary looks other people have when they’re looking at my poses. At an outdoor…

  • Funky Yoga Sensation

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    Tammy, You will recall I was at your yin a/k/a “happy hips” yoga class three weeks in a row. Last night I was part of a private yoga class with my girlfriend; there was no teacher.  There was a little mood music, though I don’t know if it was technically yoga music.  We were trying…

  • Weird Halloween Yoga

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    Tammy, I went to a Halloween party. There were a few new topical costumes.  Osama Bin Laden was there and that of course brought the Navy Seals (though some of these guys must have been on a 2 week pass as they had quite the stomachs).  Justin Bieber was the favorite for men in their…

  • Chilling Daydream in Yoga Class

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    Tammy, In class you instructed us to do a variation of uttanasana.  We leaned over and hugged our bended knees.  I felt wobbly and visualized that I was a Norwegian long jump skier preparing for a run at an Olympic gold medal.  Fortunately I had been training my whole life for this moment.  NOT!  I…