So, because I picked up an activity (curling) that conflicts with my regular Sunday class, I went looking for a new class. I mean, I suppose I don't *have* to go three days a week, that's just what I've been doing since ... whenever I started going three days a week. Anyway, because of my other other activity (spin class, apparently I am yuppie scum, hush) I have to go Sunday morning. And both of the choices are allegedly more beginner (which, as has been pointed out, the levels are all bogus anyway because most people have good poses and bad poses). So I went to the earlier one, because, I was up (I even did laundry first!) and why not?
This class had a new-to-me teacher. Who was male. Now, my *first* male yoga teacher was one of my favorite people ever - he wore a unitard, was the only Texan I ever met with a Texas drawl, and just radiated gentleness and serenity. Apparently I subconsciously assumed that this guy would be similar, which he wasn't. Thus far it seems a *leetle* more strength-ish than my regular class (he does chataranga dandasana, which sensei doesn't) and we did navasana. And I was sore in my upper abs and ... between my sitbones (is that a muscle? really?) all afternoon. (Of course, I managed to bang up my knees pretty good this afternoon, so that overshadowed any lingering muscle soreness.)
He had one thing that immediately bugged me, though. He seldom used sanskrit (which I know is something that no one but me cares about, but how do you know whether bridge is urdhva dhanurasana or setu bandha?), but on top of that he used weird names for some poses. Locust?? (Apparently that is salabhasana.) He was differentiating between two things I would call child's pose, calling one prayer pose and one child's (the difference was the arm position). This is a minor thing, but, well. We'll see. I'm planning to try him a few more times before I judge.
my instructor doesn't use the sanskrit names, and that's probably why i can never remember what any of them are...i'd be completely lost if i went to a class that did use them!
kudos to you for having learned them!
Posted by: valerie | 10/20/2008 at 04:41 PM