Registries and NY scene

[Guest guest]

The costa yogostra alliance might be a necessary

evil if you want to teach yoga at health clubs and the

like. Nowadays health clubs want some kind of

certificate to show their insurance providers, to protect

themselves from liability. Some are strict about this, some

aren't. What sometimes works is to say you're in touch

with YA and are working on getting certified by them.

Probably the best bet, if you're really interested in

teaching, is to get your own yoga insurance policy (I think

there's always an ad for that in yoga journal, about

$300), so that way your mula is protected as well as

that of the teaching facility. The YA standards of

"knowledge" seem pretty Iyengarish, ie learning lots of info

on anatomy that you don't really need to know to

practice, teach or adjust others. Some teachers are far

better than others, some are outstanding to the point of

being true teaching Masters, but for the most part

teaching yoga is a very simple thing born of one's own

practice and common sense. I chuckle at how seriously some

take themselves as "teachers." It ain't brain surgery.

The mechanics of this practice are really very simple

indeed.<br><br>Now to NY. I've never been to Jivamukti, but even if

it's a crazy scene there this is a great thing for

Yoga. More people are getting involved, getting mats

and doing ujayi breathing, chanting OM, turing their

thoughts to ahimsa and good will. JivaMoo is bringing some

color to yoga! Guruji's yoga has much to do with this

too, Astanga yoga is catching the attention of the

public, and all of us who are attracted to this yoga are

so largely because we find it so enlivening,

vigorous, even acrobatic. Before this renaissance, we had

the Iyengar scene. When did the NewYorker ever write

about that?

[Guest guest]

"When did the NewYorker ever write about

that?"<br><br>You should be careful to distinguish between The New

Yorker, a quality publication that has brought us the

likes of Updike and Nabokov, and NewYork magazine,

where the yoga article appeared, which is a yuppie

Bible of overpriced restaurants, the latest trends to

follow for all the attorneys on the Upper West Side, and

personal advertisments where pretty young girls can meet

up with rich unattractive men, object: fornication

in exchange for expensive vacations.<br><br>So, in

response to your question,<br> When did the NewYorker ever

write about that?,<br>the answer is never did, never

will.

[Guest guest]

>but for the<br> most part teaching yoga is a

very simple thing born of one's own practice and

common<br> sense. I chuckle at how seriously some take

themselves as "teachers." It ain't brain<br> surgery. The

mechanics of this practice are really very simple

indeed.<br>____<br><br>Teaching Yoga IS a simple thing if you approach it as an

excercise program, which seems to be where you (and many

teachers, and most beginning students) are coming from.

<br><br>But it is not an excercise program, and teachers who

do not approach it as an excercise program should

take themselves seriously, just as a brain surgeon

would, hopefully with less ego.<br><br>(A joke a

paramedic told me: What's the difference between God and a

surgeon? God knows He isn't a surgeon.)<br><br>DMcG

[Guest guest]

we know the difference between ny magazine and the new yorker -- new yorker had

a long piece about ashtanga and mysore last year, that was the reference.

[Guest guest]

>new yorker had a long piece about ashtanga and mysore last

year,<br><br><br><a href=http://www.rebeccamead.com/2000_08_14_art_yoga.htm

target=new>http://www.rebeccamead.com/2000_08_14_art_yoga.htm</a>