There's no substitute

When I got to my yoga studio today, there were good news and bad news waiting for me. First of all good news - my teachers Kelly and Jason had their baby on Saturday, a little boy! But the bad news is that they are both going to be on holiday for couple of weeks now. So, we had a substitute teacher, Jesse.

When it comes to different teachers, I believe I'm pretty open to new ideas - I believe that it's good to try different teachers now and again, as they all see the practice in a slightly different way and have something different to say. But for some reason I couldn't get into Jesse's teaching style, at all. He was talking quite a lot, and giving lot of detailed instructions - some of them where too detailed and I had difficulties in figuring out what he wanted. Like "pull your ribs up" - excuse me, but my ribs don't move. I asked him after the class what he meant with that and he said that he meant using uddiyana bandha and not leaning backwards - well, in my mind that still doesn't have anything to do with ribs.

Also, it's called Flow Yoga, but his style wasn't very flowy. Right in the beginning we did Surya Namaskar A's, but instead of B's we did a series of warriors with vinyasas between - and most of the warmth I had gathered during A's was gone.

Oh well - I guess I just have to grin and bear it for now waiting for Kelly and Jason to get back, also there are other substitutes too, maybe I'll catch someone really interesting next time.