So, I have been at my studio for a little over two years. The instructors are generally very good, and there are many with long years of yoga teaching. (Not that new teachers can't be good, but old teachers have, as one teacher put it, more tricks in their bag. Which is handy if the first modification suggested doesn't work for you.) But my favorite teacher (the one with 20+ years of experience) left a while back (it was too painful to blog about until now!), and, I'm not sure what to do.
I have been attending various classes by various teachers. And don't get me wrong, they're not bad teachers. And I have learned things from all of them - my favorite is a trick I learned for a pigeon modification that works hip stability rather than hip openness. But overall, I feel like I'm not getting a whole lot out of the classes.
Part of this is timing - it's inconvenient for me to go to the classes that are labeled most advanced. (I counted, of 31 classes offered, only 8 even claim to include their top rating. And of the ones labeled level 3 that I've been to (that's none of the three that finish before 9 AM), I have seldom been challenged.)
So...what's a yogini to do? Several members of the class I affectionately call the "little old lady" class told me I should take up a new sport when I mentioned not feeling challenged. Private lessons are right out at the moment for economic reasons. How does anyone else invigorate their practice? Studio-hopping? DVDs? Taking up running?
that does get tough - i no longer go to a particular studio because i really can't afford to...so i drop in, whenever and wherever is convenient at the time. i think that's helpful...a home practice has always given me a bunch of different options. i personally haven't found any dvd's that interest me, so i use it as a time to come up with different choreography on my own and i write them down for future use...or i try to have a theme and come up with a practice surrounding that...
Posted by: valerie | 12/15/2009 at 01:59 PM