Email to My Yoga Teacher

Tag: breathing

  • 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 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…

  • Yoga Goal Achieved, So. Really?

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    Tammy, Little do you know but for the past month I’ve actually been doing the homework you assigned me some fourteen months ago.  That’s right, I’m doing child’s pose every day.  Woo hoo!  I’m completing your assignment, albeit a little late.  I know you’ve given up on expecting much from me.  But come on, what…

  • Yoga on the breath

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    Tammy, The other day you caught me grimacing during a pose and told me to breathe and smile.  Why is breathing given such a big focus in yoga? When you’re concentrating on your breath, you fail to take life for granted.  You fail to worry that you’re doing triangle pose wrong and you fail to…

  • Thoughts for meditation

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    Tammy, Today I sat and meditated.  For fifteen minutes I thought about normal things; like the garlic festival I will be going to and how garlic is supposed to be great for your health.  I then pondered how many weeks it will take to get the smell out of my pores.  Next I remembered something…

  • Yoga Experiment

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    Tammy, Recently I tried something new in your yoga class.  I wanted to really get into whatever it is that real yoga people, yogis, experience while practicing. It was right after you gave the first instruction that I tried my new yoga accessory, eyes closed during class.  I didn’t know what to expect but I…

  • Yoga on TV

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    Tammy, Last night I was watching a movie on tv.  A commercial came on for an allergy medication.  The actress was doing downward dog and a canine approached her.  It was ironic and funny,well, if you’re into yoga. What other poses could be shown on tv? For an insurance company commercial:  how about while the…

  • Yoga Occurrence Leaves Me Puzzled

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    Tammy, I’m a little perplexed and a little embarrassed as I didn’t know how to handle a situation in class today. As you have told us, yoga is non-competitive, even with one’s self. Recently you’ve noticed that I’ve been pretty close to the poses you have described and told us to get into. I’m even…

  • Sick Note Excusing me from Yoga Class

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    Below is the note from my doctor excusing me from yoga classes: Tammy Yoga Studio Boca Raton, Florida Dear Yoga Teacher Tammy: Kindly be advised that your student Gary Kahn is not expected to be in class this week.  He presented today at my medical office with flu-like symptoms.  Gary is asthmatic so we must…