When Did You first Teach Someone Else Yoga?

Just like the ass that I am...I did it at first as if I were playing Simon says...it turned into two large full grown men splayed out on a friends living room floor. It was 1990 and I'd met a husband of a travelling yoga teacher. He described this awesome sounding career, and he was so proud of her...you rarely see a strong cool man truly in love so that moment stuck with me...a seed was planted...so there I was that same week trying my hand...I got as far as floor series and at some point they both looked so cute and funny I couldn't stop laughing. I only had visuals of postures so I can't imagine all I said to get em down like that....oh ya, I forgot, important factor of youthful beauty....whatever it takes to help people take the step...but too often yoga classes have students for the worst superficial reasons....

I just sprained my foot walking....try explaining that to some hot young leggy former gymnast yoga teacher...people come...they have their little gatherings...and hold each other hostage for support....fake hatha period....

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I watched a mother take photos of her daughter posing. A very beautiful teenage girl doing yoga in a way she could injure herself. The actress playing the part of the yoga teacher, molded the girls body as she wanted to see it in a yoga photo calendar or something...just epidomized everything that's wrong with so much exploitation of yoga to make money and pretend otherwise. I mean usually it's all good and there's nothing wrong with making money....but at the unconscious, risk of injuring a child....ibmake a point of saying so because of the cold way the mother showed me her ostracizing gossipy stink eye treatment for no apparent reason.

I'd walked in to prepare room for my class and they politely asked me if I minded if they took some photos...I said not at all of course. But right away the mother was subtly rude and snappy when I said from across the room "breath!" to her daughter while struggling with her balance...then I made the mistake of suggesting a camera trick...in other words as I was simply being friendly welcoming and helpful, the woman instatnly became annoyed....I was flumoxxed so I slid down to her floor level and politely quietly asked "do we know each other?" she had just rolled her eyes....she was so mean she made me feel so sad. In 22 years I've never taken a class that wasn't Bikram that mattered...the young girls experience was being reduced to beauty and modern dance....ibmean she looked like she was modelli g NOT doing hatha yoga...a joke really...and I only say that publicly in reaction to her wintry disresect. I don't know her name, and don't care to know - but do want to expose adult bullying for what it is. Ya baby! Let's do yoga! Let's fix the world with yoga. For real

oh ya...the girl did these art nouveau statue made up posture ( (all for the camera-while emoting with her eyes..."what other poses are there?" she asked her teacher after doing maybe 4....

I mean I can stand back and let it be ...but...damn...i'm so tired of being victimized by peoples gossip. Do you mind if I say that? Is it ok to speak? To express? To say who you really are? A nonpasteurized living breathing being with flaws and perfection. I'm not the best Bikram teacher on the planet by any means...but I am 200,000 times better a yoga teacher than any barnes and noble weekends in tuckahoe girl scout troop yoga alliance...

Best of all about Bikram- I can be totally screwed up in so many ways and yet never falter providing the workout people come for with true hatha yoga...lol playing khrishna das doesn't make your class hatha yoga-especially when you mix it with Marshall Tucker lol...I mean can't u see is a gorgeous old time favorite...but the filler? to distract from all the holes? All u don't know?

So who's listening? Who's at the party ? 20 hits a day but a bust? Reveal yourselves oh witches Arthur Miller wrote about.