Instead of planning the poses, I can watch for what’s happening with my students and adapt to their experience and needs.Ĥ. When I first started teaching vinyasa classes I spent a lot of time planning my classes and trying to follow my plan instead of showing up and seeing my students and teaching based on what they needed. While I can pick and choose what to teach based on what’s happening in the room, I don’t have to develop my own sequence every time I come to teach. The fact that the BPVY sequence is structured into 11 parts, each with its own set of poses, provides an amazing framework from which to teach. I teach the BPVY sequence to my “Gentle Power” students, many of whom are over 55 years old, some of them are even in their 80’s!ģ. As a teacher, I can gauge my students’ abilities and choose poses that will empower them. While there are challenging poses like crow and headstand in the practice, we are not required to teach every pose in the sequence in every class. As a teacher I like the sequence of poses is very accessible to new students. Bottom line - the practice makes my body feel great.Ģ.
This is as much about the sequence as it is about a shift in my attitude toward my practice. The lower back pain that used to plague me has essentially gone away since I started practicing BPVY. What I found after I began practicing this style, though, was that the sequence is very intelligently crafted and opens the body in a way that is very safe and accessible to many people. This practice challenges me physically in the way my Ashtanga practice did. I find that some days I need to move and sweat in order to get to a quiet meditative state. So what is it about this practice that has inspired me to finally commit to this style of yoga and even open my own power yoga studio?ġ.
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