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Last night I went to a yoga class at The Creative Living Room--it's the place where I take the dance classes, and I missed a dance class a few weeks ago because I had a migraine, so they let me make it up with yoga. Very nice and flexible of them!
It was an interesting class--definitely a more restorative style, rather than the vinyasa flow that I usually practice or the hatha that Lucia teaches, but that made it interesting--I stretched in different ways than I'm used to. Practicing a style of yoga I'm not used to is an exercise in humility for me, and an exercise in paying attention. With a new teacher, I totally want to push really hard to impress her, but that's not the way to go about doing yoga. Last night I worked to focus just on what I was doing right then, and listening to her voice, and paying attention to make sure I was doing the pose properly. Of course most of the poses were familiar, but with a different style of yoga, there's a whole different approach, and I needed to be careful that I didn't assume anything. This teacher did bridge pose entirely differently than I'm used to and that was kind of cool. Also, I'd never used a blanket in my practice before.
This teacher, Barbara, said "Fire up the muscles in your legs" a lot, but mostly she was really great. Apparently there's a studio in Media where she also teaches, so I'm going to email her and get the info. I don't know that I'd want to make this sort of class my primary practice, but a few times a month it could be really helpful.
It was an interesting class--definitely a more restorative style, rather than the vinyasa flow that I usually practice or the hatha that Lucia teaches, but that made it interesting--I stretched in different ways than I'm used to. Practicing a style of yoga I'm not used to is an exercise in humility for me, and an exercise in paying attention. With a new teacher, I totally want to push really hard to impress her, but that's not the way to go about doing yoga. Last night I worked to focus just on what I was doing right then, and listening to her voice, and paying attention to make sure I was doing the pose properly. Of course most of the poses were familiar, but with a different style of yoga, there's a whole different approach, and I needed to be careful that I didn't assume anything. This teacher did bridge pose entirely differently than I'm used to and that was kind of cool. Also, I'd never used a blanket in my practice before.
This teacher, Barbara, said "Fire up the muscles in your legs" a lot, but mostly she was really great. Apparently there's a studio in Media where she also teaches, so I'm going to email her and get the info. I don't know that I'd want to make this sort of class my primary practice, but a few times a month it could be really helpful.
