In this episode, I share my thoughts on 20 years of yoga teaching and 30+ years practice with three of my students who share their own intersectional yoga journeys of differing backgrounds, bodies, and ages. They discuss their individual paths to yoga and what teachers and types of classes work for them.
1. Eric is close to 70 and practices Iyengar Yoga for resistance training. He loves being his age and able to do many of, if not most of, the poses in class that students half his age cannot. He feels empowered by choices in yoga, knows that these practices are what keep him getting out of bed in the morning, and he vastly—vastly!—prefers in-person yoga to online yoga. I also enjoy making him laugh when he's upside down.
2. Lizzie, in her 30s, has had scoliosis since becoming a teenager and, until finding my classes, found that yoga was painful and not useful for her. Now, she not only sees the benefits of a practice modified for her body's needs but also values yoga as a way to still her mind, no matter what else is happening in the world.
3. Miah is in her 40s and has practiced alignment-based yoga for decades. She loves her body and also knows that it has particular needs for it being safe. She loves both online and in-person yoga classes especially because they cool her ambitious, competitive side while also challenging her to do things that would otherwise scare her to try.
All these students discuss what their practices are actually for and how yoga helps their lives.
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Episode credits:
Original music by Governess
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
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