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| - I practiced yoga yesterday with Dia Stieger, in her Deep Stretch class. My initial reaction was very satisfying, great customer care was given from beginning to end.
Dia was at the door to greet me warmly. I had a wonderful spacious feeling as I walked into the large over sized open space yoga room, we were NOT on top of each other, there was lots of room to spread out, I did not feel at all cramped or claustrophobic as I experience elsewhere.
Comparing room size, the LBY room seemed 5x's bigger than Y2 upstairs yoga room. The room had a much better feeling for me too. It was not dark, it had a bank of floor to ceiling windows and natural light, not light blue disco lights and a much better surround sound system with "appropriate" yoga music playing softly. and the floor was not sticky, it was very clean.
LBY has a richer, more peaceful, neighborhood, more grounded feeling for me too, very unlike Cotswold Shopping Center. LBY is neatly tucked away near the South Park Mall across from Earth Fare. LBY does not have a complicated pretentious sign in procedure or yucky caddy haughtiness at the desk either. No annoying promotions from the instructor to drink the 1/2 bottles of wine or eat the sushi - the focus is all on the yoga. Period.
Looking at the schedule however, LBY does offer predominately "gym" yoga which I'm not a fan and NOT at all interested and I have a general opinion about this kind of "gym" yoga, but not about LBY's offering. Deep stretch is offered as often as it is at Y2's LSD, but in my opinion this form of yoga is not offered often enough at either yoga shop.
My experience with Dia, the instructor for Deep Stretch at LBY was fantastic. She was extremely competent and thorough in her approach to each pose/asana. She articulated the "how-to" of each pose and the transition in and out in a calm distinctive quiet, yoga voice that that was perfectly harmonious with the background music...not at all irritating. Each pose was held at different lengths of time - but all poses were held for at least 3-5 long breaths...some even longer. And Dia was attentive to all. In fact she saw that I was struggling with my knees and she brought me over pads. I felt wonderfully relaxed and wonderful sense of well being afterwards! I highly recommend Dia's Deep Stretch class.
Walk-in pricing is cheaper too!
Note:
Holding a pose is one of THE most important parts of yoga. The holding gives space for emotions to emerge and helps me feel grounded, and creates an anchor for the soul.
In my opinion and that of BKS Iyengar, when a person zooms/flies fast through postures, without holding, then all you really have to show for it is sweat and soul less exercise.
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