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I attended a mat class where a lovely woman was obviously a yoga teacher trying to teach pilates.
If she were teaching pilates it would not have been obvious that she had a yoga background.
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Fluorescence
If you are teaching a mat,
allow someone to come to the mat and dissappear into the group.
Pointing them out, talking to them, trying to have a discussion with them during the class at the expense of the other participants is not good, when all they want to do is come to a mat and reach for the group cueing and be left alone.
Contrology
Clara
I took a mat class recently, where after Roll Up, we did Leg Circles, and then Roll Over. I felt that the absence of getting to do the Roll Over before Leg Circles left my shoulders unprepared to hold stable for the Leg Circles.
The order matters, you don't have to follow it, but it exists for a reason. When you don't follow the order, you ought to have a reason.
Hubertus
I took a class from Jan Henson recently who liked to point out that when you are doing the Crab on your shoulders with your legs over your head it preps you for doing the Balance Control.
Joseph
refers to drawing tension between the axis that runs through the ears and the axis that runs through the shoulders. By engaging in tension in this way you get expansion, sensational alignment, and fluorescence.
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