Maybe I just haven't met the right instructor yetĪnyhow, as you can see, I could probably go on and on about this! I'd like to hear more about what you had in mind and what others think about the idea. I occasionally participate in ones led by instructors who cobble together their own series of poses taken from different traditions, but most of the time they are kind of like those meals you fix for yourself when you haven't gone to the grocery store in a while - just a mishmash of stuff that the instructor has at hand in their toolbox. I generally like to avoid eclectic classes. Personally, I'm partial to one style of yoga that I have grown to enjoy. Later on, when you have a sense of what is out there, and how to do the poses in a safe way, you can try other styles and be a little more eclectic. I think this is a possibility when you don't know how to adjust the pose to meet your own physical condition (this is something a teacher can help you do).
Otherwise, you are liable to just stand around doing glorified stretching, or worse, hurt yourself. At least at the beginning, you may also want to pick a particular style and focus on it. To start off with, though, you might want to make a list of sites, videos, books, and other resources. I'd be very interested in seeing a shared notebook for this. I am hoping that the next place I move will have yoga studios nearby! I subscribe to Yoga journal (I think their target reader is female, but it still has relevant content), follow a couple of DVD videos (I have two yogis in particular that I like), and I read the blogs. It's OK, because I like to do yoga on my own, but I think I would benefit from having a teacher once in a while.
The schedules and locations of classes where we live now make it very difficult to get instruction. Unfortunately, I moved away from that area, and I am on my own now. If you can find a space and if you figure out the money, it might work to get together with a few people on a smaller scale and do something similar. We received funding from the university to establish classes for the graduate students, and we would invite excellent teachers from New York and the local area to teach. A mix of individual and group practice is ideal, in my opinion.įor a couple of years I ran a yoga club with about 100 members. For the first few years I always had instructors at least once a week. I don't know how things will go if you do it on your own from the start.
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