{"id":59,"date":"2012-02-22T14:53:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/?p=59"},"modified":"2016-05-26T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:32:01","slug":"yoga-with-the-asian-womens-group-at-the-geffrye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/yoga-with-the-asian-womens-group-at-the-geffrye\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga with the Asian Women’s Group at the Geffrye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phew! Just\u00a0 managed to cycle back from the Geffrye Museum<\/a> this lunchtime before the heavens opened and so avoid getting drenched.<\/p>\n

So, my first class with Julie Begum and her enthusiastic group of Asian women!\u00a0 The\u00a0 group was set up as part of the Geffrye’s community programme and for the past three years they have been meeting each Wednesday to share learning and other activities in the splendid setting of the Museum and its gardens.<\/p>\n

The yoga sessions were to be something of an experiment – for me and for them – as I had never before taught such a large group who were a) new to yoga and b) not all english speakers.\u00a0 How best to communicate the fundamentals of yoga practice without relying so much on words? Would I be able to\u00a0 keep the classes fun and interesting so that the participants could take away what they had learned for self practice?<\/p>\n

Having pondered much, I decided to adopt an experimental and free approach to the teaching.\u00a0 So using\u00a0 a combination of music, voice tone and body language to set the mood and get abstract ideas across; and going with the flow of the group rather than planning the class too much in advance.<\/p>\n

And so far so good!\u00a0 Julie and the group made we feel very welcome – though I was disappointed to have been pipped at the post for the last of the pancakes brought in by one of the women in a gesture of post pancake day hospitality!\u00a0 Plainly I will have to be quicker off the mark next time that treats are available…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phew! Just\u00a0 managed to cycle back from the Geffrye Museum this lunchtime before the heavens opened and so avoid getting drenched. So, my first class with Julie Begum and her enthusiastic group of Asian women!\u00a0 The\u00a0 group was set up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}