I have tried several classes with teachers and have yet to enjoy any as much as my DVDs.
My first ever yoga class was very aerobic. I could do it fine, and I got to try a lot of new poses, but I don't want to be leaping around and moving so fast. I am trying to get serenity from this, not a workout. I get my workouts elsewhere. I never went back to that class.
So my next class was okay. It was mostly older ladies on the floor of the library (in Crestline, when I lived there). It was basic yoga with all the beginner poses one would expect. I went to this one weekly and found it fine. Nothing special but not terrible.
The third different class I tried (last night) was a little absurd. If there is beginner yoga like my class above, this was Remedial Yoga. It was basically floor stretching for 75 minutes. The woman was very nice and she made a good ambiance, but it was barely yoga. For some reason the teacher kept saying how this class was a little harder than usual and that we did a great job. If that was the hard version, then what is her usual? Mountain pose and corpse?
There is a partner yoga class next week that I am interested in trying and I will see how it goes.
There is also a Chair Yoga class, but it's for people with mobility issues. I might try it just to experience it, but it will probably not be exciting.
I would like to try an advanced class, but it seems like all the advanced classes are 'power yoga' - which is not what I want at all. Like I said, I don't want to get a work out. I just want to learn new poses and breathe into them, to relax into the harder poses with my breath and not using the skeleton or muscles - to melt into the experience. I get this with my DVDs.
Maybe i am just hard to please? Or do other people have to futz around quite a bit to find the perfect yoga class/teacher?