It's hard to believe that this is our last full week at RIMYI.
Monday, Nov. 21: Geeta's class
We did lots of poses that had back-bending actions. When they rolled out thick mats for us to do drop-backs from headstand -- and provided teachers to help anyone who needed it -- it brought me back to Mrs. Babin's dance studio when I was three years and learning backbends in acrobat class while being helped by the older students.
Tuesday, Nov. 22: Prashant's class
Asana focus: lots of twists Philosophy focus: "mind on breath; breath on mind"
Wednesday, Nov. 23: Abhi's class
The class included both balancing poses and twists. For one of the balancing poses I was within a few feet of Mr. Iyengar, but because of some large yoga props, I was out of his line of vision, yet close enough to hear what he would say. He was not happy at all with our very imperfect poses and kept Abhi and her two assistants busy giving them instructions on what to tell us so we'd improve. With only five minues left in the class, Abhi told us to lie on our backs, so I got all ready to relax into savasana. What a surprise to find out that we still had five backbends to do, pushing up from the floor, before class would be over.
Thursday, Nov. 24: Pranayama class
Had a wonderful teacher for class tonight. She can explain things so clearly and took us stepwise through different breathing exercises. This class always flies by quickly.
Monday, Nov. 21: Geeta's class
We did lots of poses that had back-bending actions. When they rolled out thick mats for us to do drop-backs from headstand -- and provided teachers to help anyone who needed it -- it brought me back to Mrs. Babin's dance studio when I was three years and learning backbends in acrobat class while being helped by the older students.
Tuesday, Nov. 22: Prashant's class
Asana focus: lots of twists Philosophy focus: "mind on breath; breath on mind"
Wednesday, Nov. 23: Abhi's class
The class included both balancing poses and twists. For one of the balancing poses I was within a few feet of Mr. Iyengar, but because of some large yoga props, I was out of his line of vision, yet close enough to hear what he would say. He was not happy at all with our very imperfect poses and kept Abhi and her two assistants busy giving them instructions on what to tell us so we'd improve. With only five minues left in the class, Abhi told us to lie on our backs, so I got all ready to relax into savasana. What a surprise to find out that we still had five backbends to do, pushing up from the floor, before class would be over.
Thursday, Nov. 24: Pranayama class
Had a wonderful teacher for class tonight. She can explain things so clearly and took us stepwise through different breathing exercises. This class always flies by quickly.
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