by tori on August 5, 2010
Welcome to my web site
Wow! I never thought I’d be writing that. But thanks to the encouragement of my students and friends over the years, I finally have a home on the Internet where you can find out where and when I’m teaching as well as what I’m thinking.
I hope you will come back regularly, or subscribe to my blog, which I plan to keep fresh and current on issues pertaining to life and yoga, which are, after all, practically one in the same.
Meanwhile….students frequently ask me how I became a yoga teacher. I wasn’t a dancer…or a gymnast…or a super jock. I was just a normal person, probably a lot like you. For more about my background, you can read my post, “How I Began Teaching Iyengar Yoga.”
Namaste.
On June 5, many of us will gather at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York to celebrate the life of Mary Dunn, by partaking in the always fun and memorable annual Yogathon and day’s events in honor of Mary. She was a major exponent of Iyengar Yoga in the US and founder of our association and Institute as well as several others. This event was one of her favorite ways to do one of her most favorite things: share her infectious love of Iyengar Yoga. It is the non-profit New York Iyengar Yoga Association’s main fundraiser where teachers and students alike come together to show how and why we do yoga in order to raise money for our association.
This year, I have the honor of being the MC of the event, after I open the event by showing a progression toward the advanced pose, Vrschikasana 1 or Scorpion Pose, which I hope you will all enjoy and be there to cheer me on at 1pm.
In anticipation of my MC duties for the event, I have come up with some ways that you know you are hooked on Iyengar Yoga (a la David Letterman’s Famous Top 10 Lists). So here is a preview of some of them:
You Know You’re Really Hooked on Iyengar Yoga When…You agree to MC the Yogathon…You ask the teacher where you can get a pair of shorts like that…You own several pairs…You coordinate special outfits around the color of your legband shorts…You really don’t eat 4 hours before class…You have become completely unfazed by hearing the word “buttocks” over and over…You have a special suitcase just for your props…You have a special room just for your props!
Oh the possibilities! If any of you would like to contribute suggestions to this list that is meant to be humorous and playful, I will welcome your suggestions and will read the best of the best throughout my MC duties between 1-4pm this coming Sunday at 150 West 22nd Street, 11th Floor. Sure hope to see you there!
