{"id":20130,"date":"2018-05-04T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=20130"},"modified":"2018-05-05T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T05:31:58","slug":"last-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/last-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Last chance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>It’s kind of like the last concert to be given by Beatles (of course missed – a little before my time…) or Rolling Stone’s (are they around still breathing?) or the last Cirques du Soleil\u00a0 or the very last Devi Premal & Mitan concert or how about Krishna Das – if you heard that, would you not want that ticket?<\/p>\n

Okay, okay, a bit different but same idea in terms of ICHIGO-ICHIE, a Japanese concept of impermanence…<\/p>\n

In this age where anything is “taught” or all sorts of information is on the internet, I feel, the direct, in person, personal and customized teaching is invaluable. It’s gold. A direct learning from a well experienced and passionate (about this craft) teacher is … once in a lifetime gift.\u00a0 It can’t be rolled out again and again. Such teaching represents years, if not decades of their own learning, a wealth of knowledge and techniques they had acquired over the years and that … is hard to transmit over utube even though it’s nice to have to re-visit and review.\u00a0 Real front line experience dealing with actual students – that experience and what that teacher learned from all those interactions and now shares is … invaluable.<\/p>\n

& for the students, that experience does not repeat itself.\u00a0 Have you ever been to a lecture or a talk where you know it’s being recorded or you know you can get the notes later – have you noticed how you are not as engaged, not AS FOCUSED or attentive?\u00a0 Have you noticed you saying to yourself – ah, oh, well, I missed that but I am just going to re-watch this video later, etc. You stop having that “need” to ask questions or be honest with the teacher – ah, I didn’t catch that – can you repeat what you just said? No you skim through thinking that you have that crutches of a recording. To inquire later; not fill the holes “later”.<\/p>\n

That prevents us from the need to KNOW right there and NOW.\u00a0 You put off the questions that you could DIRECTLY ask the teacher right there, thus, teacher-student relationship is also lukewarm – it’s just not as dense or meaningful … yeah, there’s that video you can watch “later”.\u00a0 You lose the direct human connection.\u00a0 The relationship is superficial at best.<\/p>\n

This thought crossed my mind as I sign up for 4 hour workshop given by a teacher soon to go off on a sabbatical after 35 years of service.\u00a0 I do the same for any authentic teacher – sorry, I can’t learn anything new from\u00a0 someone who just picked up a 200 hrs. certificate at some exotic vacation destination who did tons of ballet and gymnastics growing up – while nothing is wrong with that and body beautiful is appreciated but that teaching style probably does not serve my needs\u00a0 – true teacher is someone who lived YOGA and demonstrates an unmatched a degree of commitment to this craft. It’s deeply human and inspirational while steeped in wisdom accumulated the years of experience. I want THAT lesson.<\/p>\n

Bowing with sheer Respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s kind of like the last concert to be given by Beatles (of course missed – a little before my time…) or Rolling Stone’s (are they around still breathing?) or the last Cirques du Soleil\u00a0 or the very last Devi Premal & Mitan concert or how about Krishna Das – if you heard that, would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20137,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130\/revisions\/20137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}