Email to My Yoga Teacher

Tag: yoga training

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 Goal Achieved, So. Really?

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    Tammy, Little do you know but for the past month I’ve actually been doing the homework you assigned me some fourteen months ago.  That’s right, I’m doing child’s pose every day.  Woo hoo!  I’m completing your assignment, albeit a little late.  I know you’ve given up on expecting much from me.  But come on, what…

  • 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…

  • Taking Yoga Seriously

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    Tammy, The other night in class you came over to my mat and looked at me and asked, “How did you get into that mess from what I demonstrated and described?”  You laughed at me.  I laughed at me.  Yeah, I try as hard as I can, but come on, yoga’s funny stuff. Let’s take…

  • My First Bikram

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    Tammy, Tonight was my first Bikram yoga class.  I don’t know if I can go back but I’ve already paid for 9 more lessons. When I walked in the studio door it was already a little steamy.  Okay I thought, this is really going to be exhilarating.   When the teacher arrived she asked for my…

  • Yoga’s Mass Classes

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    Tammy, Today I wanted to take a mid-morning yoga class at a local gym. I was a guest of a friend and we got to the parking lot ten minutes before the class was supposed to start.  Cars galore.  What’s with that?  Well, there was a fitness class prior to the yoga class and there…