YogaWorks – Downtown • 06.13.08
Yogaworks, possibly the most famous national yoga chain. Yet it doesn’t suffer the pejorative connotations of a chain, it is still is seen as offering some pretty good yoga. And i can see why. In many ways practicing at Yogaworks was familiar. The teacher offered a balance between mediation, dharma (parables / story-telling), and asana. She shared personal details with surprising candor, and underlying vulnerbility. Her focus on alignment was intelligent, and enlightening. She was familiar.
I wondered if the familiarity was due to the Ishta influence in her’s and Kristin’s teaching. Possibly. But I appreciated that she realized hips and feet in Warrior I and Warrior II don’t readily align. It was refreshing to not be awkwardly flowing between these poses, compensating or compromising alignment in order to “flow”, and feeling guilty about it.
