YOGA TODAY
Ancient & Modern Solutions for Health Acupuncture • Chinese Herbal Medicine • Ayurvedic Healthcare Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine Treats acute and chronic pain including but not limited to—back pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, sports injuries, and fibromyalgia Women’s and men’s health issues including low libido, impotence, menstrual disorders, and infertility Chronic fatigue syndrome; mental depression, anxiety; general overall health optimization, dry needling, and much more Chuck Miller, was one of the co-founders of YogaWorks — the busi - ness that would become a model for Yoga studios across the country. She also co-founded with Miller and Lisa Walford, who added Iyengar Yoga to Ezraty’s Ashtanga practice, what is considered the first for - mal teacher-training program that would eventually spread through legions of students trained to go forth and instruct. For me, it was the best $12 I’d ever spent. That phone call unlocked decades of training and teaching and per- fecting — becoming discouraged, inspired, and tossed around until I wasn’t recognizable anymore. The world of standing poses opened to me through the vigor of Ashtanga Yoga, and the alignment and stabil - ity of Iyengar Yoga. And it was shortly after this initial encounter in the mid-1980s that the “green sticky mat” became available for pro - fessionals like myself. Yup, I was seriously in the loop among serious yogis, doing high profile, high cost Yoga on green sticky mats. Those first stick mats proved to be made of the stuff that would unravel and disappear with too much love — like much of the Yoga industry itself as it has evolved. Many times we would all walk away from 6am Ashtanga (Mysore style) with Chuck Miller and our green sticky mats, with flecks of green Yoga mat in our hair. These mats would wear out with continued practice, flaking all over the place and disintegrating over time. There would be a big hole where you stood at the front. Soon thereafter, everything Yoga-related got its seemingly fancy, innovative, super cool upgrade. The Yoga I knew was no longer about the meditation; it became about the poses, the celebrity athleticism, and the new “stuff” you could get to make your Yoga experience all that much more… [insert whatever need here…]. As we barrel forward with this phenomenon in the post pandemic world, the Yoga that was once upon a time cutting edge has changed
face, again, and perhaps forever. The Yoga mats are definitely better quality now, and any practicing yogi has one. But I can’t help but won - der about the quality of the practice. Is Yoga still ‘a Thing’? Or, are we starting to move back to the place where those who do it are no longer the norm? Claudia Neuman, MSW, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Certified Para® Yoga Instructor, Cer - tified Para® Yoga Nidra Instructor, has been a student and a teacher for over 4 decades. She currently offers group classes (virtual and in-person) and retreats in Yoga and En - lightened Rest 108 through Grace Yoga Studio in Silver Spring, MD (see “Workshops” at www.graceyps.com/), as well as through her own website: www.alignwithgrace.com.
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