YogaWorks – Downtown • 06.13.08
Yogaworks is possibly the most famous national yoga chain. Yet it doesn’t suffer the pejorative connotations of a chain, it is still 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 hers 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 deepen the “flow”, and feeling guilty about it.
