Last weekend was Arjuna's workshop here in my city, I haven't been there. I'd love to go there but it was wiser not to go, definitly healthier. Anyway he was my first teacher and it would have been a great chance to meet him and all the other yogis. I'm a little bit sad now that I missed the chance but I also know that my body was not yet ready.
As I don't have an Ashtanga teacher in my range the occasions for practicing Mysore style with a good teacher a very, very rare for me. It's limited to one or two weekend workshops per year. So I almost always practice alone at home. This has its advantages but I also miss the guidance and the advice of a good teacher. And I think that I would go further beyond my limits as I do at home and therefore the progress would perhaps be a little bit faster. At home there are days where the practice is inattentive and sloppy, never would this be if Arjuna's watching me. In return home practice teaches you a lot of things: to motivate yourself, to overcome the obstacles we put in our way ourselves ... I don't know what is better, probably a good mixture of both, home practice and classes.
Anyway if this tendinitis is completly over I definitly have to visit more workshops!
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Hi Bettina,
Most of the time I practice alone, too. It's more difficult to be not sloppy, but we learn to be disciplined that way.
Every Wednesday I go to a Mysore class. To have a teacher is very good.
Have a nice day. Urusla
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