Email to My Yoga Teacher

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  • Toga! Toga! I Mean Yoga Yoga

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    Amy, It was my first yoga class in a while and it felt weird.  I mean, what’s the perception of someone who hasn’t been to a yoga class in a while?  As I looked at all the bodies flat on the ground, all I could think of was John Belushi, I mean Bluto, in Animal…

  • 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…

  • In the Dark at Yoga

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    Tammy, A yoga teacher invited me to a special Halloween yoga class. I arrived and set up my mat in the darkened room.  Suddenly I felt a couple drops of water pour down my forehead.  I looked up and saw there were no leaks in the ceiling.  So how could this be?  We hadn’t even…

  • Yoga on a Bicycle?

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    Tammy, This week I watched some videos online  about yoga on a bicycle (click here to view).  Yoga teacher Kelli Refer, who lived in Colorado (a US mecca for cyclists) and now hails from Seattle, demonstrates some super yoga poses for cyclists. Side stretching while riding works on the torso and tests balance as you…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Early Morning Yoga

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    Tammy, Last night  I saw a hilarious movie and a few live comics; a late night full of laughs. I arrived at the outdoor yoga class early in the morning today.  Apparently the teacher said hi to me right before the class started, but I didn’t even notice.  I must’ve been in the “yoga zone”…