Touched • 02.01.09
Starting off the new year, with my unfortunate gym membership debacle I was on the look-out in a big way for the best value yoga studio. Enter Laughing Lotus. I couldn’t get enough of the classes there during my one-week unlimited try out, it was conveniently located to home and office, and it could very well be the most friendly yoga studio in Manhattan, even the its’ incense infused scent lingering in the hall is friendly. When they posted their special $128 / mo of unlimited classes (mats, filtered water and cookies included), I couldn’t turn it down.
Nearly three weeks later, I’m still loving my classes here. The vibe, the larger than life colors, and the unbelievably friendly students have placed their mark permanently in my comfort zone. But what I have missed, are adjustments. I haven’t quite put my finger on it yet, but the teachers here seem adjustment disinclined. Not to say, they never touch you, they just hardly do. On the rare occasion that they do, I find myself wishing that they wouldn’t, for example in savasana I can hear the instructor roving doing a half-massage half reiki assist, and she made her way ALMOST to me, but not quite. Leaving me, deliciously disappointed.
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