Category Archives: Class-y

An Exercise in Open-ness

February 12, 2008 – 6:11 am

I knew yesterday as I tried to get into my own practice, that I was off in some way. Usually, once the music is on and I get through those first couple of relaxing forward bends and into Sun Salutations, I’m on my way and my body begins to take on a mind of [...]

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Flow vs. Detail

February 11, 2008 – 6:36 am

I had an interesting conversation with a mate from the class I’m teaching- using term oh-so-most loosely- where she brought to my attention the importance of modifications.  Not only modifications but perhaps a less than acute attention to detail in the postures.  Very nicely, of course.  This particular student of yoga is certainly the most [...]

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A Great Class… Really

February 5, 2008 – 4:59 am

The mind is everything; what you think, you become. ~Buddha
I was prepared to have a really good class. I knew I would have a good class.
I was tired. Not only had I put Filipes through the yogic paces, for over an hour, to work on my cueing, but I had had a [...]

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Lead… Guide… Instruct… Assist… Yup.

January 29, 2008 – 7:26 am

On a cold, snowy night.  In a warm, cozy room amid a steady refridgerator hum and the smell of coffee, a yoga class was taught….  For me, great.  I have cleared the hurdle of the scary first.   For the three women in attendance, I’m not sure.  Only one had a real point of reference given that she maintains her [...]

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75 Minutes of Great!

January 25, 2008 – 5:46 pm

A great 75 minute practice today followed by a nice, if somewhat inadequate, five minutes of Savasana. 
Closing my practice with a good long Savasana is still a challenge and one I will continue to work on.  But I feel so good and I am ready to move on and tackle the demands of this crazy house.  [...]

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Cue… Dammit!

January 23, 2008 – 6:30 am

It was a good practice yesterday afternoon.  A first one in a good long time, as is evident from this PLOG o’ mine.  One hour.  With Baron Baptiste.
OK, not really.  Not the man in person, but his voice.  In my Bootcamp in a Box.  I had to admit to my husband last night as we were [...]

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She Who Can’t Do… Teach!

January 22, 2008 – 7:33 am

Well… an interesting development.  A friend and neighbor has asked if I would teach an informal yoga class every week to a group of other friends and neighbors.  It will be in her coffee shop nearby, after hours.  It’s a fantastic, large but very cozy space with dark, wide hardwood planks, a gas fireplace and coffee and [...]

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