Gena

I can say that I go to the same studio so far, but they have different teachers sometimes. So it was, probably, my fourth time and there it was – a different teacher then the one I was used to. She was talking to us as if we are soldiers. I have an old knee ligaments trauma so I’m trying to be easy on my knees. And she was coming to me all the time pushing me further down or up depending on the pose – and she didn’t care when i told her about my bad knee.I could not relax. I felt like I had to do the pose well for HER otherwise she will come and hurt me correcting. I was so angry I didn’t get any benefits for my body or mind that day.
However, next day I came and she was there again. So what I did was I asked her before the class not to press me to do what I cannot do, let me move in my pace. And since then I feel perfectly fine at her classes as well as with other teachers. ;-P

And what is interesting, last time I had a teacher who was not EXACTLY following the speech. And, oh my god, he was so good. I’ve never done better or felt better in and after the class. He was correcting little-little things that were making all the difference. He managed to make the atmosphere both relaxed and concentrated. He gave more explanations to the poses than there is in original speech and everything just made so much more sense. Maybe following the exact story letter by letter is not the best idea…

Gabrielle,

I have a similar problem, i think. My period started a week earlier than it should (two weeks after i started doing Bikram yoga). There is always a certain day when it starts because I’m on pills. And it goes on already for a week. I’m hoping it is going to end when my regular period would have ended, otherwise I will be really worried and I’ll have to go to the gyn. I really don’t want to give up yoga – I just started and I like it so much – but I’m afraid what if heat caused such side effects from pills?

I will be really grateful for your reply. :down: