Here is Elektra's website: https://www.yogawithelektra.com/
As I mentioned in my earlier post this week, about four or five years ago, I came across yoga. Usually, I attended maybe one class per week and I loved every minute of it. Now that I am retired, I am averaging three or four hours a week of yoga practice and even doing some practice at home.
One of my favorite teachers at Lifetime Fitness is electric Elektra. (I will get to the electric part later.)
Elektra lives and breaths yoga.
One can discern this immediately upon first encountering her.
Her slender, flexible body and beautifully tattooed arms shout peace, love, and calm. The enthusiasm she brings to class each week and her bright smile welcome each individual to her "classroom" and yoga studio. Her goal, at the beginning of class, is to make sure everyone is comfortable with the room temperature, mat situation and to make sure each student feels welcome if it is their first class or five-hundredth class.
In each class, she focuses on different parts of the body.
This past Thursday at her noon Surrender - Yin - class she helped us work on our stomachs and digestive system in preparation for the upcoming Thanksgiving eating frenzy.
She guides us smoothly through each move and transition and helps us relax and feel confident in whatever stage we are in - in our practice.
Elektra always offers us a positive mantra to contemplate while we practice. “Embrace Change” coinciding with the fall weather turning colder was the timely and simple affirmation presented last week.
She guides us through the holds, but also allows us to spend quiet time concentrating on our own “unique” bodies as she reassures us it is good to be in the space and place we inhabit at this time.
After class, I mentioned to Elektra that I would like to take her picture and write a blog post about yoga.
She gave me loads of information about the once-in-every-500-year partial lunar eclipse that was appearing that night. It seems Elektra follows the stars and sky, but she confessed to me that she follows Jesus Christ, as well. She never brings this up in class because it probably is against some Yoga rule, but her belief in Christ was palpable as she relayed to me, in our private conversation, a deep connection to Christ and His healing powers.
Elektra also mentioned to me at times funny electrical things happen to her and she is what is called a “Slider”. This Street Light Interference Phenomenon is real and a plethora of studies back it up. Here is some basic information from Wikipedia, if you are interested.
I feel so fortunate to have Elektra as one of my yoga instructors. She is extremely kind, warm, funny, remarkably yoga savvy, and now I know, supercharged.
With her guidance and tutelage, I am confident my yoga skills will improve and the sky could be the limit for me too.
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