What My Students Tell Me

ABOUT YOGA:

         When the semester first began, I thought this class was going to breeze by- it’s just yoga, right? However, I thought wrong. This class became a challenge for me physically and mentally. It required that I focus on certain aspects of my life that maybe I have not even thought to focus on during my own personal time...

         When you are just breathing that is an act that only is valid to you in a strict sense. Breath is living (and notably calming) and it does create a sense of self, an act that for the most part only you commit...

         I learned that you don’t have to be the strongest person to succeed in yoga (like I once thought you had to be) because of all the modifications you can incorporate into your private practice. I could never even think about doing the yoga sequence without modification because my upper body isn’t strong enough to lower myself down to my ribs without falling. Since there was the modified version, I was able to complete the sequence by dropping my knees and coming to cobra...