As I mentioned on my last post, I’ve been spending some days out of Scottsdale. I came to Portland on July 11 to visit part of my family. And by the way, the summer is very nice here! I knew I would have to stop my Yoga classes for a while, but I thought I would be able to figure out something. So after a few days here, I got a 2-week membership at a local gym and they offer 2 yoga classes per week. I could not manage my agenda to go to the classes on the first week. So I finally tried one today. Even though I was so excited to try it, I have to admit that after class I got very disappointed. My 4 months experience with Yoga have been very intense, but in a single fitness club in AZ (Mountainside Fitness). They have about 10 different Yoga instructors, each one of them has their own style, but there are some similarities in their classes. The gym offer classes like: regular yoga, yoga flow, power yoga, heated power yoga, stretch yoga, gentle yoga, yoga 101. Usually the room is a little heated, and all the instructors use music. The indirect light helps getting concentrated and focused. I thought that with that variety of instructors and classes I could speak the same language as anyone else that practices Yoga. But after the class I attended today… I don’t think so. It was a weird experience. The room was very cold, with freezing air conditioner. The lights were so bright. No music at all. We only had a down-dog one time in the whole class, very quickly. No planks and chaturangas at all. One triangle. I don’t have an instructor’s eye to explain why the class was weird. I just thought that my grandma could be there doing the same class with me. I didn’t feel challenged at all, and I also didn’t feel like the class contributed to my apprenticeship. And I don’t see how people that only know this type of class would relate to my previous posts. It was a worth experience though, it’s always important to know what goes on out of our little world.
Anyways, after I came back home, I told my friend that lives here that I didn’t really enjoy the class. And she invited me to go with her to a Bikram Yoga class on this same night. And that experience was quite different! But I’ll write about it on a next post.
