seeking advice: join class or go all-out with yogini

[shapeshifter]

Hi. Sorry if there's a thread on this already, i tried to search...

 

I am new to NF and wll be doing my first challenge soon: my main goal for the year will be to do the CPAT test and overall in life is a move towards sustainability. I dont do yoga now, but have always appreciated it and have done a few classes in the past. I'd like to start. I dont meditate although I am a farmer and like to hike, both at which I tend to fall into what I can only descibe as a meditative state, which  i love.

I am trying to come up with classes/group activities which I would like to do to get me out and working-out, this is a bit of a challenge b/c I live in a village where my options are limited. For yoga I have an option of a class which is one hour per week ($8/class) which is run by a friend who is very nice and presumably it is a nice social time. My other option is to goto my neighbour and ask her to be my yogini (is that the word?)  - She is...intense. And would be a teacher more n line with classic hindi (language and all). She's 84 (I think) and lives/breathes yoga. She takes students on for free, in any discipline (I have a friend who does chanting with her who thinks its great) - I'd be doing posures.

Here's the thing - I'm fairly terrified of having a yoga teaher being so close. The dissapointment if you dont succeed, the emotional closeness, the 1-1 aspect being so, I dont know, personal. Does anyone have this with a teacher? Do they like it? Do you get a lot out of the group/social classes?

 

thanks for any help!

[Sunmage]

Hi,

 

I have a yoga teacher in my family, so what shall I say? 

 

If you really do yoga there is no disappointment. You will learn this quite fast.

 

If I were you I would visit your neighbor immediately.

 

Yoga has developed into a modern discipline. In many yoga schools traditional stuff got lost to make it more trendy and so on.

Nothing can be better than experience. Most people will never get a chance to be so close to the idea of yoga like your neighbor might be.

 

You could also do both and see what suits you better

 

 

At least ask her about your concerns. If she is the right teacher for you, she will make these disappear immediately

 

Have fun discovering yoga!