2/12/11

February 12 was my first saturday. The previous two weeks I had been going to the sunday class, but because I am scheduled until 9 in the morning on sundays at work and class begins at 9, saturday is a much better day for me to attend class. If I can get out of work early on sundays I'll get a second day of class in.

Saturday has a different teacher than sundays does. Sunday is Alice and saturday is Jenn. Right of the bat I noticed saturdays classes are much more full than sundays. Most likely because sunday is a day of rest for most people. This time when I entered the studio I made it my goal to study the over all atmosphere of the class, based on our discussion in class of Nevrins article. What I ended up really noticing was the different relationships people had with each other. Its not really a place where anyone is real serious. For the most part many of the people know each other, and the first 5 to 10 minutes before and even a little after 9 is spent catching up with people you haven't seen in the while. Right about this time the weather is starting to warm up every so often, and beach season is nearing in, so it seems everyone is starting to get back into their practice. There was also a different energy in the room, it just seemed more lively. I attribute this to multiple factors, the number of people, the fact that it was a saturday and not a sunday, and the weather was warmer that day.

Once the class started Jenn said that it was going to be a vinyasa day, so we were going to be focusing on our breathing. In Alice's class we have done segments of vinyasa, but the whole class isn't vinyasa. I've done vinyasa before so I knew what to expect, but as usual I had some trouble with the timing of my breathing. Breathing is something I really have to focus on because I end up breathing in when I'm supposed to be breathing out and out when I'm supposed to breathing in. As Laurie has pointed out this is probably due to my lifting back ground. So, I really tried to key in to Jenn's voice so I could follow her signals when it came to the breathing. Jenn's teaching style is somewhat similar to Alice's because she doesn't spend to much time actually doing the yoga, but spends more time walking around and checking everyones form making small corrections. My overall impression of her is that she is a free spirit.

At the end of class when we were in shavasana I wanted to see if she also read a passage from a book to the class like Alice does, but I ended up falling asleep. I was extra tired from work.