Yoga for Everybody

Author Archive

What’s My Level

What’s My Level

Maya Lev

From time to time, a student approaches their teacher and asks if he or she may attend the class of the next level up. While each teacher handles this situation in their own particular way, I believe it is a question worthy of some deeper consideration. Most yoga studios these days offer a variety of classes for students of varying degrees of experience and ability, and Yoga Center Santa Cruz is no exception. On our schedule we make a brief attempt to clarify what we mean by “level 1,” “level 2,” and so on. But these descriptions provide merely a bare guideline to a far more complex subject.

Yoga Center Santa Cruz

Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. B.K.S. Iyengar