by guest author Anna Coventry, Bubbles and Backbends. Yoga and Hong Kong. An oxymoron or a match made in heaven? Admittedly, being in a class on the 16th floor of a high rise, overlooking, well other high rises, is not exactly the quintessential yoga image, yet the industry here is BOOMING! My desire to ride the Hong Kong yoga wave is twofold. I am both a yoga teacher and an avid practitioner so of course I want to find out more about the people practicing and leading this beautiful … [Read more...]
The danger of thinking you know more than your yoga teacher
Back in February, I wrote an article called Why I may never take another yoga class ever again. And true to my word, I hadn't been to a class in six months, instead practicing daily at home. One of the reasons I'd been steering clear of classes was that in class I'd struggled with being told what to do by a teacher. Often it felt like what my body needed and what the teacher was sequencing wasn't right for me. But a few weekends ago I went to two yoga classes at a yoga studio that's … [Read more...]