Roxy Yoga

back to reality February 21, 2009

As Eminem would say, back to reality, oh there goes gravity. Back to work. Back to teaching yoga. Back to my messy apartment. I taught a few yoga classes this week and tried to incorporate some of what I learned at Shiva Teacher Training without changing my teaching style and format too much. I don’t want to be lost or lose my students trying to teach them something I only half ass know. I forgot how there is a whole process for me after I learn something I want to teach in yoga. I have to bring it home and practice it on my mat alone quite a bit and also practice teaching a friend before I take it to class. I tried to incorporate more flow into my classes, which are Vinyasa style. I incorporated more pulsations while holding poses, more body vinyasas moving the limbs while in poses, and rhythmic vinyasas, going back and forth between two poses, all connected with breath. I think it went pretty well. I feel like I need to find more words for the philosophical aspect of yoga. I know all the queue’s for alignment, but once people are in poses I feel like I want to say more about the true essence of yoga but I’m not sure exactly what to say. I am not looking to say anything super spiritual, but some of the yumminess that people don’t really think about but are feeling in their bodies. I am going to bring the nerd in me out and make some index cards to study and bring to class with my favorite yoga tidbits to share. I also love teaching to my yoga mix! It’s so much better to do yoga with good tunes. It has some rock n’ roll (uh duh, i am teaching roxtar yoga) and some great yogi tunes from Shiva’s mix cd Yoga Rhythms. I highly recommend her music compilations. You can purchase most of them on amazon or google them to find other online stores selling them.