Well, tonight it’s the last class of my first-ever 6-week beginner’s course in Brighton, and it’s been fun! They’re a great bunch of people and it’s been nice to get to know them – and to hear them get to know each other – there’s generally a noticeable amount of chatting before and after class 
The course has also been a real learning experience for me as I’ve discovered that certain ‘beginner’ and key postures, such as cat and downward dog are really problematic for heavy computer users, so I’ve been trying to do lots of warm-up exercises that get the wrists and shoulders to start working. I’m now determined to understand the specific issues computers users face and to try to tailor classes to benefit them because, after all, there are a lot of geeks around these days!
As for the people on my course – I have seen a real improvement in everyone; they’re starting to connect with their bodies and pay attention to them. I’m hearing things such as: ‘I’m noticing that I stand with my weight in one hip,” and ‘I didn’t realise that I couldn’t straighten my fingers fully,’ which is great because by noticing these things we can then begin to change them – slowly, surely, little by little, and it all helps. For example, if you can exercise and stretch your fingers fully and get to the point where you can spread you fingers and palms on the ground, it will make postures such as Downward Dog much easier as the weight won’t be sinking into the wrists – and then you can enjoy the fantastic numerous benefits of this key posture. And it really does become a resting pose. Well, sometimes The great news is that everyone wants to carry on and do the continuation course so hopefully that means they’re enjoying it and feeling the benefits. As well as the continuation course I’ve decided to offer a new 6-week beginners’ course (see classes page for details) but whether it runs or not will all depend on numbers, so we shall see!
A little footnote: I was away for a week recently on a yoga holiday (just can’t get enough!) and will be putting a link to some pics of our ‘sunset yoga’ sessions (as soon as I figure out how) for no reason other than to make you jealous…
And I’ll be making a concerted effort to update my blog much more often!!!
