Quel plaisir d’avoir de tes nouvelles. Comment vas-tu?
Je suis à nouveau en Angleterre. Je serais ravie de t’envoyer d’autres nouvelles par messagerie.
Je t’embrasse
Laurence

Tant à partager…Sois en paix et comblée!

Mille bizous étoilés d’Orient…

A très bientôt

Je viens de surfer vite fait sur ton site (il est presque minuit ici ) c’est drolement bien et ca m’a fait bien plaisir !
J’ai vu Béa hier qui m’a dit qu’elle te verrait peut etre en Bretagne en aout!
Alors je te fais une grosse bise et je suis contente de voir que ca marche bien pour toi!
Hélène

Thank you for your comment which is very interesting.
I’m not an Iyengar , but a Vinyasa trained teacher. I’ve learnt a lot from about six different Iyengar teachers in France and in the UK. As an “amateur”, I can’t say I’ve ever felt humiliated. It’s true that some teachers have a very rough way of talking to their students. I don’t think it helps anyone to humiliate others in public.
I haven’t been to Pune yet, so I can’t compare.
I guess as in any discipline, some teachers take it too seriously. Some may also struggle with big size classes. It must be a gift to keep cool with 25 or more students to deal with.
As a teacher, one’s patience can be challenged. I don’t train teachers but ordinary students. Therefore my students come to find a relaxed atmosphere. Some would resent too stricter rules.

Iyengar Yoga is a long and demanding process.
As a teacher (Vinyasa trained and not Iyengar) I try to learn from the students. How should I explain things to make them more intelligible, how should I talk to them individally, etc Sometimes they loose concentration and I have to find a way to bring their attention back to the practice. I therefore add a few lines at the end of the class like: “We should maybe try to spend one session without any chatting to see if it changes anything in the benefits we get from the practice.”
Regarding props, some people learn quickly, others find it difficult to use them. My first Iyengar teacher never got crossed with me even if it took time to me to know how to place the blocks or blankets properly. I’m very grateful to her.
I had other teachers later on who reminded us quite rudely how to deal with the props. As intermediate or advanced students, we are supposed to have learnt a few things.
Yoga helps us to feel detached, even from a teacher unpleasantness, as long as we respect his or her work. It happened to me to find the teacher a bit rough, but at the same time I was enjoying the pratice so much that I didn’t mind
her words.
Hope this helps. Namaste