Monthly Archives: October 2014

Manasa teachers, where do you place your mat in class?

When we understand yoga as karmasu kausalam (skillfulness of action), then the position where we take the teachers position in our class is also an important karma. The position we choose should have a skillful (kushala) context. So, if the context of our teaching is to get our students to ‘conform’ their bodies to the ‘form’ we are ‘showing’, then it is important we place our mat in a position where all students can ‘see our body/ pose’, which they …