Three Weeks Down

Well, Christina and I have just completed the third week of classes. Last night, we had Chandra's class. IT was excellent and much more like a typical Iyengar Class one might encounter in the US. There were several demos and more repeated poses (Christina is posting the sequence on her blog as I write) . We did standing poses and a bunch of backbends. This morning we had the ladies class and Abijata (Iyengar's grandaughter) taught. She was really excellent also. Again, the format was more like Iyengar classes I"m used to, except for the direct instructions from Guruji on sirsasana (and repeating sirsasana several times). Abijata has an incredibly pleasant, captivitingly pleasant demeanor as well.

We are on our way to cash some money at the Chetak (we spent a good bit at the batik store yesterday) and then we are heading over to Crosswords for more movies. We have been enjoying our trips to "videoland" as Jaya called it last night. After practice (where we plan to do the most excellent Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana sequence), we have another trip down FC road, via Chatushringi Road, for dinner at either Roopali or Goopali on Randy's insistence.

Side note: We are thinking about naming each of the practice sequences, For instance "Calves of butter" which we got from Laurie has morphed into "Cheryl's calves of ghee" (after she showed us how to use the wooden bar covered with sticky mat piece, so far we have "groins of delight" otherwise known as "the simasana sequence"

So more later, Jeri (in her second comment to the blog yeah!!!!) asked about props in Iyengar Yoga and I"m going to write a bit about that next time around. It is one of the big differences I've noticed here in terms of how they are used/ what the Iyengars say about them...

Well that's it for now.