Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Yogi All-Stars

101 classes in 97 days.

I've already discussed my difficulties with weekend classes, as it's a break from my Monday-Friday routine. So I won't go over that again right now. It was the usual difficult Sunday class for me, but overall it went Ok. It was nice and hot with close to 60% humidity. But I thought I'd write about something I love about Sunday classes.

For a variety of reasons, the Sunday 3 PM class is stuffed with experienced and great yogis. One of the reasons is that Advanced Class is at 5 PM, so a lot of those guys do the 3 PM as their "warm up." Then recently we have some visiting teachers, as well as some of the people on teacher training. The trainees have Sundays off, but a few of them come in and do class on their day off! That's some serious dedication.

Needless to say, I don't go in the front row on Sundays. Not because I'm worried about a rough class, but honestly I'd rather be behind these super great yogis so I can watch them for any subtle things about the postures. It's awesome. So I set up in the second row and got to watch all of these incredible yogis do their thing. Very inspiring.

Greg

8 comments:

  1. There is advanced class in Vegas on Sundays?!? Oooooh... that sounds... well, not advisable... but very very tempting....

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  2. That is so cool! My studio doesn't have advanced (tear) so it's great that you get to see them coming in and warming up. Incredible!

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  3. "Warm up" = beginner's class + slacking. Very glamorous.

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  4. 100 classes in 96 days. Wow! Have a great Monday.

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  5. J, there's actually 2-3 advanced classes per week at my studio. When you come out, I imagine it'd be fine for you to drop in for it.

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  6. Ok SWEET, I will totally be hitting that up. (I have such a one-track mind.)

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  7. I've never been invited to advanced. I'm going to roll myself up into J's mat and sneak in!

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  8. Don't most studios try to keep the advanced sessions under the radar? As I understand it, there are only a handful of people approved to be teaching advanced in the first place. Also, I think if you want to get invited, you pretty much first would have to ask.

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