Yoga in Singapore
I 've done yoga in several different countries--the US, Australia, Mexico, Nepal, and now Singapore. My experience of yoga instruction in the US, Australia, and Mexico is fairly similar. Since the first place I ever did yoga was in the US, that's my default for "normal" yoga practice. Put yourself into new poses, often flowing from one pose to another. Push yourself, but respect your body's boundaries. Instructors' levels of intensity has differed, but I never felt unsafe. In Nepal, I went to a few different yoga centers, again, with different types of instructors. A few of my instructors were from India, and theirs was a somewhat more rote yoga, a little pushier and less comfortable, and with some of them, I felt a disconnect between what they were pushing me to do and what my body could actually do. I recall ending several sessions upset. But I was also introduced to new kinds of yoga that I'd never tried before. Yoga nidra. An absolute dream yoga where ...