For the past few months, I’ve been teaching an Ashtanga Primary Series class once a week at Bloomington Power Yoga. Overall, I’d say it’s gone well, although I’ve had to modify the sequence quite a bit to accommodate the experience levels of the students coming to my class. This has resulted in a slower paced class that omits about 8-12 poses (mostly seated postures and a few of the finishing poses). From what I understand, this type of modification is quite typical in an hour and a half Ashtanga class, and it is all the more necessary when dealing with a lot of students who are relatively or completely new to yoga. Of course, the downside of modifying an Ashtanga class too much is that when you get a serious Ashtangi in your class, he/she is probably not going to be happy. This is exactly what happened yesterday, and I was especially surprised at how forward this student was in telling me all the things I did wrong in teaching my Ashtanga class. (more…)
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I’m going to be doing a little traveling this summer to Ireland and England. I’ll be in Dublin and London mostly, but will also visit some smaller cities. If anyone has studio recommendations (or any other recommendations, for that matter), I’d really appreciate it.
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Debby Harris, Bloomington’s favorite Ashtanga teacher, will be joining Bloomington Power Yoga in December. Her first Ashtanga class at BPY will be Tuesday, December 2, at 6:00 PM.
Note: My usual Tuesday night 2/3 Flow class will be on hiatus until further notice.
Also Note: Class packages with Debby are valid for all BPY’s classes. And BPY students may use their class packages to take Debby’s class.
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Over the next few weeks, I’ll be visiting Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York. Hopefully I’ll have some time to squeeze in a few yoga classes. If anyone can recommend some good studios in these cities, I’d really appreciate it. Many thanks!
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I’ve been growing increasingly distressed over the past months as I’ve discovered more and more websites that are stealing content from my blog. The people responsible for these sites are taking my articles and reposting them on their own blogs, and pretending that they are the original authors of what I’ve written.
I know that most people who are doing this are doing it to make money off Google advertisements, and that they don’t mean any ill will towards me specifically. Nonetheless, this is upsetting to me for a number of reasons. First of all, I feel as if my work and my website are being used/exploited in a very disrespectful way. None of these people has asked my permission (and I doubt that any of them really have any moral qualms about what they are doing). Also, I’m upset because, from the very first day I started this blog, I made a conscious decision to keep it 100% free of commercial interests. I don’t make any money off this blog, although I easily could, and I certainly never intended anyone else to make money off it either.
If you’re one of the people stealing my blog’s content for your own financial benefit, please stop. Thanks.
And if you’re reading this posting somewhere other than Om Shanti: A Yoga Blog, please be aware that this site is the original, and that the one you are reading is likely a fraudulent site set up solely for the purpose of getting you to click on one of those annoying Google advertisements on the side of the screen.
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After driving almost non-stop for three days, I’ve finally arrived in Los Angeles, along with a horribly aching back. Hopefully some yoga will straighten that out, literally and figuratively…
I plan to start posting regularly again on the blog very shortly. Stay tuned!
Eugene
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Below are some pictures from my Costa Rica yoga trip. I’ll put some more up in a week or so that are actually pictures of yoga. But, for now, here are some images to set the tone for what it was like to be at the Samasati yoga retreat.
