Amazing footage … to have learned from him for 25 years? To endure and persevere his tough style of teaching … Respect to Judith and all Iyengar trained teachers.
Luckily Judith took the kinder approach in teaching therapeutic applications – whereas, his style of teaching is very … Asian – strict and tough… you can feel the fear mixed with sheer respect and enthusiasm to learn among the students – they just don’t want to be yelled at. I can imagine Judith was one of those students who was not intimidated and just showed up with bright eyes and curious … her energy is contagious even today! She really knows a thing or two about how to “regulate” her energy level to meet the demands of … life.
SOOOO honored I will be assisting Judith H. Lasater’s Teacher Training Level 2 in August – all about therapeutic applications of restorative yoga. Learning from Judith basically means learning from Judith and indirectly from her teacher, BKS Iyengar.
Realized he is 74 in this footage… Way past the Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-Hour Rule of mastery.
** Noting – that Japanese teacher referred to here needed an interpreter ! A teacher can see through when a true learning actually took place vs. not. Here the great teacher knew right away that the Japanese student did not get the lesson. Why? because of the language barrier. Without the understanding of language, you are not learning anything.
