Susan, I hope you found something better by now as I realize I’m reacting very late.

My advise is to try some different classes until you find one that you like and never to stop looking around and trying other classes. As you change and advance your taste for teachers and classes will also change. In the beginning it isn’t that important what the teacher actually tells as long as it motivates you to move and you might have to look at the people next to you to see what you should do … ( I will explain … ).

If yoga is really on your “retirement bucket list” … you start somewhere 1 day a week and it will feel like you can’t do anything right and don’t understand anything. After 3 months, just going and doing it, you might find that you can do something you never thought you could. That is the moment yoga begins.

It is not that you should discover Yoga. No way. Yoga should serve in you discovering yourself and in the beginning just moving your leg up when someone tells you can help a lot if you don’t normally do that. At this point you might know what you want to discover; you can choose your teachers.

So find a teacher who challenges you to go a little step further then you would normally do, looks at you with understanding and gives you the right advise, Step by step until you climb a mountain, meditate and walk down the way your body can do. That’s yoga; it really isn’t that more complicated ,,. it is great and the wisdom is there where no wise men would ever expect it to be.

No this is not normal, there are usually specific classes just for new moms and their toddlers. I’d advise attending a different class or studio.

What makes me smile are those people who don’t like crowded classes.

They complain that there are too many people but they stay in class anyway.

How much room do you really need to practice? Is the size of your mat not enough?

Some people need to learn to get along/play nice with those around them.