05-23-04, 11:40 PM | |
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Katie, I have a coupon for a free class at Yoga Centers in Bellvue. If you think you'll use it let me know and I'll send it to you.
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05-24-04, 12:15 AM | |
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Thanks Jane and Loretta, for your comments, it was an incredible weekend...
for the first time, I think I "get" yoga. Annie, who is the studio director, is a former student of Felicity. She mentioned that Felicity is coming back to Two Dog Yoga Studio, next year. Loretta, thanks for the offer of the coupon, but I don't think I'll use it. I bought a drop-in card for Two Dog, since I liked it so much there. Jane...now I have to go google Manuso Manos, who I've never heard of. Also, don't know about Aadil's, but I live in North Seattle, only a 5 minute drive to Two Dog. PM me if you think you're coming to Seattle, another time. Would love to meet you. |
05-24-04, 12:39 AM | |
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That's great you like Two Dog so much. Finding a studio you like is half the battle. Maybe the next time I come to Seattle I'll have to try to catch a class there.
I, too, was intrigued about the Manuso Manos tape that I saw at the Unity Woods site (linked from a post earlier today). He's a senior Iyengar teacher in Los Angeles. One of the teachers at my studio studied with him and with Erich Schiffman when she lived in the area. Felicity has one video, but it's more instructional about how to teach some basic poses to different levels of students, rather than a tape you can work along with.
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05-24-04, 06:19 AM | |
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As Loretta says, its great if you've found a studio you like - and so nearby. Aadil Palkhivala is a very senior Iyengar instructor who tours all over the world and gives teacher trainings. My understanding is that several of the NW video yogis have studied with him - including Lianne. This is his studio:
http://www.yogacenters.com/ I would love to meet him. I have his guided relaxation cd which I like a great deal http://www.aadilpalkhivala.org/educatio.htm. Manuso is also a very senior Iyengar instructor. He's discussed in Elizabeth Kadetsky's book, First There is a Mountain - the book about, among other things, the recent history of yoga and the authors trip to Pune to study with the Iyengars. She describes him as pulling her out of difficulties. His videos are pricey - $35 - $40 each - they're also available on the Unity Woods site.
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05-24-04, 07:52 AM | |
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Manuso
Many years ago I took a workshop with him. It was in the days when I was a practising ashtanga on an irregular basis. I would describe him as having his roots in the tough love, old-fashioned military school traditions. We did pretty basic poses and held them for a very very very long time.
Since some of the poses of Iyengar differ from how I learned them for ashtanga, I ended up being the "poster child" for how to do them the wrong way and stood in class, holding a pose while everything was critiqued. He sure knows his stuff and answered many questions about modifications for various quirks and physical disorders. At the end of the first day I could hardly walk and had felt as if I had been hit by a truck, and not quite in that good kind of way. Some people really adore him. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him and can understand his ferocity, in spite of his bringing me to tears within the first 5 minutes of his workshop, as well as another student's weeping for minutes; I suspect that was due to some major events as he helped her open up her hips. I had never seen anything like it, much less in a class of 70 people or so. Fran |
05-25-04, 12:57 AM | ||
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I guess Mr. Iyengar and his teachers in India are into the Tough Love school of thought. The director of the studio I go to, who has done 4 intensives at the Iyengar Institute (she's on the assessment board and is up for Senior level certification), has a theory about it. She said that she thinks most students in India have no problem relaxing but have to be pushed to work hard enough. On the other hand, students in go, go go America have no problem with pushing themselves and working hard, but it's tough to get them to relax. So she thinks that teachers in India have to be tougher and teachers here have to be more soothing. That's her theory anyway. I think some teachers that have studied extensively with Mr Iyengar have taken the tough love stuff to heart. Luckily some teach a kinder/gentler version of Iyengar yoga.
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