After the Partner Restorative Workshop I taught last weekend, one of the participants shared her experience with me. I love hearing about a person's experience with yoga. It is especially validating when someone else has a similar experience to what I have found with yoga. One of the reasons I became a teacher was so that I could attempt to share some of the amazing benefits I have received, and when that happens, it is intensely heart-warming. Here is what she had to say about the workshop:
Please share your experiences with yoga in my class or others, I'd love to read about them. Namaste.
"I wanted to take a minute to share my experience in your couples
restorative yoga class. I'm not a yoga person, but my husband is
interested in it, and he's so good about trying things I like that I
figured I should give one of his things a try. I went into the class
very nervous, but felt comfortable pretty quickly. I have a very hard
time turning my thoughts off, being quiet, or looking inward. The thing
that made this class work for me was that my focus was on my partner,
not myself. We tuned in and focused on each other, and learned about
each other. I was able to feel my husband's breathing, feel his skin,
look at his eyes, all the time being encouraged to observe. I learned
so much about him. I don't really have words for how I felt, but I can
say that it was intense, and at the same time my anxiety level was lower
than it has been in years. I love my husband, we are the kind of
couple who really get along and who do everything together, but I have
never felt close to him like I did in this class, and even after. At
the end of class it was hard to come out of that intimate space of just
the two of us and realize there were actually other people around. Both
of us had an amazing experience, and now, days later, I still feel
changed from it. We plan on taking this class again, and for myself I'd
like to try a restorative class working without a partner, to build
some tools to relax and slow down from every day life. This class made
me feel so healthy, inside and out.
Thank you, Reina!"Please share your experiences with yoga in my class or others, I'd love to read about them. Namaste.
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