Some yoga teachers ask this at the beginning of class. It sounds all welcoming, but it's a trap. One of the skills of a great vinyasa yoga teacher is sequencing. There are some styles of yoga where the poses are always the same and in the same order. In some of those styles, how you get into a posture has no bearing on the posture itself. Vinyasa yoga is different.
Vinyasa means to place in a specific order. In vinyasa, the order in which the teacher places the poses is called sequencing. The transitions between the poses matter just as much as the poses themselves. Planning a vinyasa yoga class requires skill and care. For an experienced teacher, this may not be an incredibly long process, but it happens nonetheless. So, when a teacher asks those fateful questions, "What would you like to work on today? Any body parts or poses that you are really dying to practice?", we know that they are open to getting a little creative and maybe a little daring. My muscles start to ache just thinking about what might come next.
In a recent class, the results were hips, core and inversions. Those three parts actually go together quite nicely and the teacher was somewhat of an inversions expert, so it turned out great. Then the next night at yoga teacher training, we spent three hours working on teaching poses that work the hips and core in preparation for inversions. It was awesome, but man, it made my everything ache!
Vinyasa means to place in a specific order. In vinyasa, the order in which the teacher places the poses is called sequencing. The transitions between the poses matter just as much as the poses themselves. Planning a vinyasa yoga class requires skill and care. For an experienced teacher, this may not be an incredibly long process, but it happens nonetheless. So, when a teacher asks those fateful questions, "What would you like to work on today? Any body parts or poses that you are really dying to practice?", we know that they are open to getting a little creative and maybe a little daring. My muscles start to ache just thinking about what might come next.
In a recent class, the results were hips, core and inversions. Those three parts actually go together quite nicely and the teacher was somewhat of an inversions expert, so it turned out great. Then the next night at yoga teacher training, we spent three hours working on teaching poses that work the hips and core in preparation for inversions. It was awesome, but man, it made my everything ache!
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