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Last night I had two neighbors coming to the little room at the gym. One woman who came last time couldn’t make it yesterday, but another one did. I was pretty tired right before that, but I arrived 10 minutes early along with my husband and just rolled around on the floor in the weirdest ways I could think of to get myself energized and excited to teach (my husband was on the bike laughing at the sound effects I made with my movements).

The two neighbors showed up ready to just go straight into savasana (corpse pose – the finish pose of yoga) and stay there for 1.5 hour. I made the decision to have them lie down on their backs in x’s to begin. I wanted them to do a few things to cross the mid line to wake up the body, but they mostly just laughed and looked at me like I was crazy for asking them to do that. I don’t think either of them has ever taken a dance class before and they felt uncomfortable. My bad. So, I switched back to what I originally had “planned (I don’t really plan, I just go there with an idea of something to work on). We did some easy yoga and after a little bit, one of them wanted to show what she had learned in a yoga class she took last week, which was a handstand pose (bakasana). So we switched direction in class again. Since I had done plenty of things to open up the body and warm up their backs and shoulders, I thought our bodies was warm enough and prepared for another handstand pose with the help of the wall. After this we did a few stretches before they finally got to relax in savasana.

I don’t know if they feel like they got anything out of last nights “class”. I’m gonna approach it a little bit different the next time. I gave them some freedom to change yesterday, but I now know more what it is that they want and the levels of all three ladies. But the woman who showed up last time has already improved on some things in her body which is awesome to see, so my teaching must have done something good:) 

Hello my friends! Last night, I had two neighbors who was excited for a pilates/yoga/stretch class down a the gym. One, a woman from Brazil, had tried pilates before but not yoga, and the other, a woman from Russia, seemed to have taken a lot of yoga but maybe less pilates, so I really tried to do a mix. Since this was the first time we did this I wanted to start off with some basics and focus on proper placements. We ended up doing a bit more pilates blended with just a little yoga. From a yoga pose like downdog directly in to a pilates exercise. I think it turned out pretty awesome. Since stretching was requested, I took some extra time on that but we still didn’t get to stretch some of the muscles that we had worked on. They got to finish with a well deserved savasana which was a nice way to end our hour of workout.

I’ve never taught a class like this, it has always been dance or movement classes. But I know enough to teach both pilates and yoga. And stretching is kinda my thing, haha. Depending on peoples schedules, we will try to do this on Mondays from now on. My parents are coming tomorrow so I’m not sure I can teach next week, but after that I’m happy to teach every week. I think it will be fun:)