Email to My Yoga Teacher

Tag: meditation

  • 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…

  • iYoga

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    Tammy, For various reasons I didn’t go to my usual yoga classes this weekend.  It made me think  about habits and how to use them to change some of life’s patterns.  After all, one weekend away from yoga and I could abandon going at all.  If I don’t go to yoga next weekend, that’s no…

  • Ominous Yoga

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    Tammy, Sunday night I went to the beach for a yoga class.  Isn’t that a cool way to finish a weekend? As I was driving to the beach I could see a big black cloud just north of where our class was going to be held.  It had been raining most of the afternoon around…

  • 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…

  • Judging or Helping?

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    Tammy, So I arrive in your class one day.  There is a guy there and he says he’s happy that another guy (me) will be in the class.  I don’t think much about it.  The guy then rattles off a whole bunch of maladies and how he is affected by them.  I quickly decide that I…

  • Why I go to Yoga Class

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    Tammy, I think I know why I go to your yoga class. Your classes remind me of being in preschool. We arrive with our own blankets, or in yoga terms, a mat. You greet us with a warm smile and some encouraging words.   We know that you will take care of us. You then ask us to…