I taught a 3 hour Yoga Body Buddha Mind workshop at Tokyo-Yoga in Aoyama.  A gorgeous studio – check it out when you are in Tokyo.  The students were — as always — totally openhearted and open minded.  I think it was a good workshop!  

Here are two of the students from the workshop with me.

 The woman on my left, Tammy, is a native born and raised Tokyo -ite, but she lived in NYC for three years.  During that time she was an avid yogini and practiced at OM yoga.  She wanted to take the OM yoga Teacher Training but one of the requirements is the ability to do Sirsasana, Headstand.  She was told by a teacher at another yoga studio that because her upper arms are short and her head is little bit bigger than that length, she would never be able to do headstand.  So she gave up and didn’t take the training at OM yoga.  When she told me that I felt sad because, of course, she absolutely can do headstand.  There are so many ways to do it, no matter what proportions you have.  So I showed her how to place blankets under each forearm to create space for her head and now she is sooo happy that she can do Sirsasana.

posted on Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 3:06 pm.