Keeping Our Community Healthy During COVID-19
With the news of the COVID-19 virus beginning to spread in the US, we’d like to let you know what we’re doing at The Yoga Room to help keep our students and staff as healthy as possible.
At the beginning of each shift, we’re sanitizing all frequently used hard surfaces including all door handles, our front desk and front counter, bathroom faucets and sinks, toilet handles, thermostats, radios and remote controls, keyboard, mouse, and telephone.
We’ve removed eye pillows from our classrooms, since they’re used on the face, and we’re sanitizing our blocks daily.
For the time being, our teachers will avoid teaching any pranayama practices that require students to touch their faces (for example, alternate nostril breathing) and they’ll avoid teaching any postures that require students to put their face on a prop.
As an extra precaution, teachers will encourage students to wash their hands or use hand sanitizer after class.
All of our staff has been encouraged to stay home and rest if they feel ill.
And here are some added tips to keep yourself and our community healthy:
If you’re ill, please stay home and rest.
Consider bringing your own props.
Consider bringing a pillowcase or two to cover our props, then wash your pillowcase(s) when you get home.
Wash your hands well and frequently, especially after being in public places.
Avoid touching your face with unwashed hands.
If you’re immunocompromised, practice yoga from home using videos from our YouTube Channel. (Like and subscribe to our channel to be notified when we post new videos.)
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Greetings From India
A nagalinga flower on the tree in front of KYM. This flower symbolizes Ādiśeṣa, a mythical snake upon whose coiled body Vishnu and Lakshmi rested, and who held the universe on his head. This imagery is an analogy for the concepts of sthiram and sukham, stability and comfort. Ādiśeṣa needed to provide a safe and comfortable resting place for Vishnu and Lakshmi while also being stable and securely supporting the universe. Beautiful story, and beautiful flower, would you agree?
Hello friend!
I'm wrapping up my second week at my training course in India, and it's going really well so far. Over the past couple of weeks, I've realized that I've grown in the past year since I completed the previous course. I'm experiencing this course in a different way, with more patience and peacefulness knowing that I don't need to understand every detail RIGHT NOW; rather, the teachings will reveal themselves over time when I'm experienced and knowledgable enough to understand them.
I am learning a lot of great things here that I can't wait to bring back to The Yoga Room, for both the teachers and the students. For example, we're learning even more about Ayurveda, I've learned how to read a person's pulse to determine their Ayurvedic dōṣa (constitution), and I've learned how to work with different issues of the spine from a yoga therapy perspective. At some point in the future, I'll begin offering Yoga Therapy for people who would like to use the tools of yoga to address any issues that are affecting their health. Please stay tuned for that.
I'm thinking of you from the other side of the planet and I hope your yoga practice is going well. If you have any doubt, please don't hesitate to send me a note. I always love hearing from you.
See you soon!
