[nabs-l] Yoga Course

[Rania Ismail CMT]

I am currently working privately with a yoga instructor. This is the second
one I am working with. Your yoga instructor will also help you move your
body in the way they are explaining if you still are not quite understanding
what they want you to do. I really enjoy yoga and am still working tward the
goal my first yoga instructor set for me. The goal is for me to get to the
point ware I can walk in to a yoga class and tell the instructor how they
can help me. Here is an article I rote on how yoga instructors can help us
as blind students. It's attached. Hope it helps.
Rania,

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Arielle Silverman
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 6:20 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Yoga Course

Hi Brice and all,
I've taken yoga for three semesters now as well as a couple of short
classes, so I've worked with about four different instructors and I've
had really great experiences with it. Yoga instructors are trained to
give extensive verbal directions and they give the directions in terms
of your body position. So in other words, they will say "move your
arms to your shoulders" rather than "move your arms out" etc. I find
this especially helpful as a blind person, because I often find that
when I don't have visual context, instructions like "move in" or "move
out" don't make much sense. The yoga instructors I have worked with
will also move about the room to offer feedback to individual
students. They do this for everyone, not just blind students. Yoga
also moves a lot slower than, say, dance or aerobics classes. I'm sure
there are some bad instructors, but I think yoga is more accessible
than a lot of other group physical activities. If you get someone
who's less verbal, you can probably set up office hours with them or
pay for one or two private lessons to get caught up, but based on my
experience I don't think you'll need that. I find yoga very relaxing
and enjoyable. Good luck!
Arielle

On 1/14/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> oh boy. Good luck. I tried kundalini yoga but that is more meditative than
> regular yoga; it would have been fine, but that summer I had conflicts.
> Have the instructor be verbal and show you what to do. Since it's the
> college, he/she should have office hours; they could help you then too.
> Yoga is a series of positions, called poses, where you hold them for a
> period of time and then move on. Its done on the floor plus a few standing
> poses. Many people find it relaxing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brice Smith
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:00 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Yoga Course
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone here ever taken a mainstream yoga class? I'm scrambling
> like mad to find my final required PE course this semester before I
> graduate in May. Unfortunately, my two internship schedules keep me
> from taking just about anything else offered -- and an evening yoga
> class that meets for eight weeks starting at the end of February is
> about all that's left that fits my schedule.
>
> So how accessible and/or visual are yoga classes, especially for
> someone like me who barely knows what yoga even is?
>
> Just trying to graduate ...
>
> Brice
>
> --
> Brice Smith
> North Carolina State University, Communication - Public Relations
> Brice.Smith319 at gmail.com
>
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