Frequently-Sighted Non-Yoga Poses

In the words of yoga teacher Steve Ross, "Yoga is about lightening up." 

It doesn't always have to be so serious, so deep, so quiet. Sometimes, it can be loud, funny, and breezy. We can laugh at ourselves, laugh at others, and just enjoy the process of doing crazy things on this 72" piece of rubber. 

So in today's video, we're visiting the lighter side of yoga. I've been wanting to put together a guide to "non-yoga pose poses" for quite a while now, and here it is--short, sweet, and to the point (I think...). 

A few things about this video:

• I'm not making fun of my students. I love my students SO MUCH and one of the things that I love about them is that they know how to laugh at themselves. Yoga encourages us to do this! This is my video for encouraging laughing at ourselves. 
• I am NOT making fun of new students, either. Newbies, you're the best! And kudos for trying yoga! We were all new at one point so just do you and YES. 
• I have done many (if not all?) of these non-poses before. We all do them at one point or another, and that's what I find so great about them. 
• Yoga is weird, ya know? So people do weird things in class! I think it's important to remember that we shouldn't take ourselves OR the practice too seriously. 
• Fellow teachers, this one is for you. Because sometimes, when you've seen a pose done incorrectly for the 1000000th time, you have to just smile about it, amirite?!? 
  
  

Enjoy! This is the beginning of my foray into exploring the world of videos beyond Mat Matters...we'll see how it goes ;)