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    Dear Gabrielle, dear Dawna,

    thanks a lot for your help! It’s important to me to know more about these facts.

    @Gabrielle: We should trust our students, shouldn’t we? 🙂 I mean, sometimes they don’t know what the do but mostly they have a good feeling for their bodies… they just have to learn how to listen to it.

    @Dawna: Your post sounds a little bit bugged to me. I don’t know if it is because I am not a native speaker and maybe I don’t understand you in the right way. OF COURSE “YOU won’t get sick with some dreadful illness by practicing yoga with a patient who has had a transplant”. I know that and hopefully all other people know that too. But I asked my questions for somebody who is interested in doing yoga and isn’t sure about his OWN body. So what should I answer him: “You won’t fall in to a million little pieces – so just do it!” I am sure that’s not the answer he wants to hear. Well, I can understand that some questions we yoga teachers ask sound very stupid. But please remember: we are normal people too and we cannot know everything about every single body in our classes. I really would like to but that’s impossible. So I try to give my best and if it is to ask stupid questions – I just do it! Now I know more than before and that’s important. Anyways, Dawna, I am really thankful for your honest and maybe a little angry answer. Even that shows me how important it is to see the whole person and not only somebody who is coming to a yoga class.

    I wish you a happy year 2009 with lots of yoga, love and understanding. And please be patient with us teachers, we are patient with you too. 😉

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