Most of my yoga practice is at home as I generally only go to 2 or 3 classes a week in my studio. I do this for a few reasons, the main one being that I can control the nature of my practice and I am not at the whim of what the yoga instructor wants to do that day.
Some instructors are better than others in the teaching environment and I find that their classes are less of a physical work out than the instructors who follow pretty much the same flow from week to week. I like to go to the flow classes because of the physical nature of those classes but I do take one class each week that is less of a strict flow type of class.
Last night (in a hot class), our instructor took the time to show us the best way to get into a head stand. In my two years of practicing, no one had taken the time to break down the different steps to get into the pose. I had always assumed that you push both legs up and I was never able to even get close. The way she described it was very different (one leg at a time) and while I was not able to get up and stay, I was able to bring both legs up to the wall and over my head(we were against a wall) which was more than I had ever done before. I assume with a few months of practice, I should be able to accomplish this.
In hindsight I could have tried this on YouTube (I am sure there are a pile of how to do headstand videos) but I thought I was doing it correctly. Guess I was wrong.
So there is value in instructors who take the time to teach....
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