Email to My Yoga Teacher

Tag: Focus

  • Weird Yoga Proposition

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    Tammy, Last week I met this woman at a public speaking class.  She was telling me she met a small business management consultant.  She rattled on, “This businesswoman really took the time to get to know me.  She cares about me and I’m in my 50’s.  With all the age and sexual discrimination that goes…

  • Yoga Blog’s First Birthday

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    Tammy, This is the one year anniversary of my blog.  I wonder what posts people have liked the best. I guess yesterday was a good example of my yoga experience over the past year.  It was raining while I was driving to an outdoor yoga class and I was wondering why I was going.  I…

  • Am I Becoming a Yogaholic?

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    Tammy, I think I may be  turning into a yogaholic.  Can you tell me if I am in need of a twelve-step flow, I mean program?  Will I need an anti-yoga intervention?  Will you be my sponsor? I practice yoga with you once a week. I go to Barnes & Noble a couple of times…

  • 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…

  • Heated Yoga Studio Causes Mind Clearing

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    Tammy, It was really hot tonight in your class.  We were 15 minutes into the class and I had to take off my shirt.  It’s taken me awhile but I think I may have gotten over the body image and body hair neuroses; even if I didn’t, we were now talking about avoiding heat exhaustion.  …

  • Yogic UFO

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    Tammy, In Today’s class we were doing triangle pose.  When I looked up I saw something I had never before seen in class.  Through the window I saw a red light out in the main road, at a distance.  Was it a sign that I should stop doing yoga?  Was it the Amsterdam red light…