Email to My Yoga Teacher

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  • Is Yoga Good For Real Life?

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    Tammy, Last week I stubbed my toe.  It didn’t hurt, rather there was blood that took almost a week to completely scab over.  It was at the top of the captain toe so I had to wear sandals almost every day, even at work. I went to a yoga class and after a couple of…

  • 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 Chatting

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    Tammy, Recently I went to yoga class and there were people hanging out chatting before, during, and afterward.  I started to  wonder why I don’t chat with others when I go to class. Let’s see, first, most of the students are women and they seem to know each other.  What would I say?  Where did…

  • Yoga Games

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    Tammy, You know the swimming pool game Marco Polo?  What if yoga teachers played a similar game called pada gustasana?  I kinda like the rhythm, pada        gustasana                              pada        gustasana. How ’bout Whispering Down the Lane sahaja bhujangasana and see what the last person…

  • 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…

  • 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,”…

  • 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…

  • 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…