This was by far the most crowded yoga class I've ever been to. I'm still impressed at how many people could fit into that room without kicking each other by accident.
The class was just what I wanted out of a power-Vinyasa class-- sweating and breathing through challenging poses. However, with 50 other people also sweating and breathing and vinyasa-ing, it quickly got stuffy in there. I found the large number of people distracting at times. For the most part, though, the workout was so good, though, that it kept my mind occupied.
At the end, in Savansana, our instructor read to us a little excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet"
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
What a beautiful passage!
I'm still feeling the good effects today. Yoga to the People is a keeper, for sure. I know I'll be there again.
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