Sunday, August 05, 2001


woke up today with a start -- realized i'm worried about the plan to start ashtanga in the little yoga program i run at my job. and the worry is -- someone's going to get hurt. i'm not concerned about a couple of the people who are interested -- they have experience in ashtanga and know how to protect themselves. they don't have the "fitness mentality" for yoga.

i am however concerned about a couple of others. i definitely fear that if someone pulls a muscle in ashtanga, the yoga will be canceled. in fact i was so frazzled about this, that i actually called one of my wiser colleagues and asked her opinion. she offered the excellent advice of simply explaining to people exactly what the risks are. it's hard to disagree with this advice.

still i wonder about the human tendency to believe "won't happen to me." because of course if i tell them the risks and they think to themselves "won't happen to me" -- then naturally, since they are not going to be vigilant, it will happen to them, soon and hard. as the time approaches for the sample ashtanga class i've scheduled, this is on my mind more and more and more. . .

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