You Might Be A Long Term Practitioner If You Remember When:
- Classes were just called "yoga"
- Yoga studios were 20 miles away from each other
- You showed up not knowing what to expect
- Yoga classes were not heated anywhere above 85 degrees...and that was only during Winter
- If you were not warm enough, it was seen as a failure in your use of breathing and bandhas and not the temperture of the studio
- The teacher controlled the temperature and touching the heaters or thermostat was a sacrilege
- All classes started with a chant or a sutra
- Ashtanga was the only "Power" Yoga
- When an injury was called "an opening"
- When assists were brutal
- When the Yoga Alliance didn't exist
- There was no such thing as teacher training
- You were given your teacher's blessing to teach
- How long someone had been teaching mattered
- Teachers were paid according to their experience
- LuluLemon was not a household name
- You did not talk back to your teacher
- If you rolled your eyes are acted "cray" to your teacher, you were told off and possibly kicked out
- A class over 30 was crowded
- When the class got "too full", not when the room got to capacity, they would turn people away or spread classes out to prevent this phenom
- Your teacher knew your name
- If you did not show for class, your teacher would hunt you down because of either worry or to shame you back
- Your teacher knew everything about your body, your practice, your past 3 marriages, drug abuse and all other personal information they found pertinent to helping you in yoga
- Breathing was important
- Holding a pose less then 5 breaths was sacrilege
- Using the words "work out" to describe a yoga class was sacrilege
- Music other then yoga chants, bells, gongs and nature sounds was a sacrilege...if your teacher allowed music at all...
- Floor work lasted longer then 15 minutes
- Leaving before or during Svasana was a sacrilege and you would be shamed or told off
- Coming late was a sacrilege and you would be shamed or told off
- Svasana was longer then 3 minutes
- Your teacher cut out other poses to make sure that Svasana was longer then 3 minutes
- All poses were said in Sanskrit & you just had to figure "ish" out
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