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Appreciate
the sacredness of your yoga practice - arrive early
enough for class to take care of sign-in, and have some
time to enter the spirit of Yoga. Arriving late for
class not only compromises your experience, it also
disturbs fellow classmates.
If you should arrive late, please enter very quietly and
sit until beginning meditation is over before you unroll
your mat and prepare for class.
Please remember to remove your shoes BEFORE entering and
not to wear shoes anywhere inside The Yoga Room in order
to keep “OUR” space clean and sacred. Yoga is about
connecting to the earth and sky.
Yoga is an inward journey. Keep casual conversation
during class to a minimum, as this takes valuable
learning time away from your fellow classmates,
especially when the teacher is working with another
individual. Keeping silence for a time as you enter and
leave the studio helps to create a beautifully
meditative atmosphere for everyone.
Yoga is about stillness. This is a structured class and
it is required that students honor the teacher and
classmates by paying attention when the teacher is
speaking, demonstrating, or assisting another student,
by not engaging in any form of “free-form” activity
and/or movement. This is distracting to your teacher and
classmates.
Yoga is also about awareness - During discussion on the
Sutras, please refrain from lengthy comments. This time
is designed for brief comments to encourage awareness
only.
Yoga is about connecting to our hands, heart, and head.
Absolutely no cell phones or pagers allowed in the
studio. Allow yourself to be “unplugged” while you are
here.
Yoga is about creating lines of energy and moving energy
in the body. Jewelry holds energy and generally blocks
the free flow of energy through our limbs. Please remove
unnecessary jewelry prior to class.
Yoga is about creating awareness. Your mat will have
your own scent and footprints on it. For health reasons,
and for vibrational reasons, please bring your own mat
to yoga class. It is your magic carpet; make it fly.
Yoga is about uniting the body, breath, and mind.
Ideally, we breathe through the nose, with the tongue
and jaw relaxed, during yoga practice. Chewing gum
tenses the jaw and mouth. Yoga is about breathing, not
eating and chewing. Please no gum chewing or candy in
class (If you need to discard gum from your mouth,
please wrap it in tissue before putting it into the
trash. Thank you.
Please come to class with an empty stomach at least two
hours after eating (unless medical reasons prohibits);
be prepared to practice barefoot; wear loose-fitting,
non-restricting clothing.
Perfumes and heavily scented detergents trigger
allergies and are best left at home.
Please come to class with a clean body and clean mind . .
. clean blankets and mat.
Please do not attend class if you have a cough, cold or
any other illness that is contagious, as a courtesy to
your fellow classmates and teacher. We will miss you,
but will appreciate you not sharing your illness.
Please hang or place garments (coats, handbags, etc.) in
appropriate space designated.
Bring any props you wish to use in your practice, such
as a mat, strap, block, blanket. Should you use a studio
Yoga prop, please put back neatly as it was in
designated space.
Together, with harmony and cooperation, we can keep this
space a sacred and clean learning facility.
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