Why Did You Do That For?

Today’s yoga class was somewhat weird. To start with, we expected the girl we had last Thursday, who said she was taking over the class in Iiling’s absence, but instead we had another man as the three months replacement. To be fair, the 'Thursday-girl's' style was different from Iiling but at least she didn’t skip postures in case they might be too difficult? huh? We are only doing the primary series, and to be honest, majority of the class have been going to I’s class for almost a year now, some are even longer and even if some postures are more challenging than others, we still practice them so that we progress in time, which I believe it’s the whole purpose of practicing. This is a way to learn and listen to your body and gradually you will be able to get into each posture.

I agree every teacher has different approaches and teaching techniques, but surely you still teach the full, precise sequence rather than doing bits of it! Well, at least that’s what I think and that’s the way I have been taught and practicing.

I am going to try this man’s class once more and see how it goes. Though most of the people felt the pace was far too slow and certainly didn’t understand the reason of skipping postures!!

नमस्ते