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About Elissa JordanHelping to balance out her 9-5 work day, Elissa is a yoga teacher (Healium, 276 Lambton Quay, Mondays 5.30pm, and various gyms), a wine enthusiast and a dark chocolate nut (no reference sourced). Hailing from the wilds of Northern Ontario, she now calls windy Welly home. Her column, Adventures in Teaching, is designed to open a dialogue for new teachers. Voicing questions and answers, doubts and insights, she aims for harmony between action and intention. You can ask her a specific question about teaching here.
Ah, Elissa but you are in luck! Tanya and Stacey of AcroYoga in Oz are coming to Wellington last weekend in Feb next year for a workshop so you won’t need to wait too long : )
Blessings,
Amanda
Hey Amanda,
Thanks for the heads up! I think a few people will be stoked to know that.
Blessings,
KL
Hi Amanda – Yeah, my yoga teacher mentioned the AcroYoga workshop, very excited!
Cheers!
To my thinking, while the discipline of regular practice is important, the adherence to a strict line of what/how we should practice is not. In honouring ourselves and the needs of our body freshly everyday, using the different methods/styles that address it best in the moment, we are keeping more to the one-on-one historical teaching of Yoga. Group classes are a new phenomena. But then, I trained in a lineage and with teachers who emphasis the appropriateness of the practice to the individual rather than the individual’s loyalty to a static idea of the posture.
Hey Jessica,
I love what you say about group classes being a new phenomena… it’s so easy to forget that. And in remembering that yoga was once a one-on-one personal thing guided by the inner and outer guru… it’s easy to see that what one practices is what’s right… in that moment.
Of course, practicing in this way without the steady guidance of a watchful teacher can sometimes means that the ego gets in the way and we practice what we want, not what we need… as wants and needs can be two different things.
Blessings,
KL
It seems to me, the more rigid the required practice the more lofty, idealised and unattainable the promised outcome.