Email to My Yoga Teacher

Tag: what is yoga

  • 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…

  • It’s Your Yoga Class

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    Tammy, While waiting for yoga class the other day, I did a little yogic thinking.  I guess these emails suggest I might do that once in a while.  When yoga teachers say that it is my class, I figure that means I focus on me and do the best I can; stopping only if I…

  • 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…

  • European-influenced yoga class

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    Tammy, I arrived ten minutes early for class Saturday.  As I approached, I saw a woman who smiled and said, “Hi.”  I was taken back a little as the “nobody talks to strangers rule” is usually in effect here in South Florida. I smiled back and she said, “Where is everybody?” “It’s a holiday weekend,”…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Yoga Wall

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    Tammy, In class yesterday, you asked us to get into the downward dog position with the soles of our feet up against the wall.  I’m trying to figure out why.  I know one reason is for the students to work with this sensation and feel what it is supposed to be like if there is…