Head Over Heels by Rain Mitchell

Author:Rain Mitchell [Mitchell, Rain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101580448
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Graham offered to pick Lee up at the studio and drive her to the restaurant, but that sounded too much like a date to her, so she insisted on meeting him there. It’s best not to have to rely on him for a lift, and she’ll be more in control of when she leaves. The only thing she has in her little office closet is a belted cotton sweater, but with a pair of leggings and a leotard top underneath, she can make it work. Best to keep it totally casual anyway.

And best not to be too early and appear eager. While she waits to leave, she starts going over the teacher bios Lainey wants her to revise for the updated studio website. In preparation, she’s been perusing other studio websites. Reading dozens of teacher bios one after the other is a fairly depressing experience. Most start off with a litany of misery.

“Sabrina came to yoga after being diagnosed with….”

“Brian was a competitive skier until an automobile accident left him….”

“I was an angry, violent teenager who was told by several of my parole officers that it would be a miracle if I lived until the age of….”

“Shortly after 9/11….”

“After Crystal’s second suicide attempt in less than six months….”

“In 2002, I was legally dead for almost three minutes.….”

Lee’s own teacher bio, if written in complete honesty, wouldn’t be any more uplifting.

“After becoming disillusioned with medical school, suffering depression, losing twenty pounds she didn’t need to lose, and hiding in her apartment for three months, Lee was dragged to a yoga class in a church basement on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.….”

And then the portraits usually turn vague and slightly loopy after the discovery of yoga.

“Yoga has taught me to live in the abundance of the future’s present.”

“Crystal tries to bring her understanding of the importance of creation into her classes.”

“Brian’s journey, which began on the mat, ends on the mat with every beginning.”

“Sabrina calls her yoga classes ‘Not Yoga’ because they are yoga.”

Lee shouldn’t be so judgmental, because whenever she tries to describe what she wants to accomplish in class or how she defines her yoga, she gets equally nonspecific:

“My goal is to help people experience a greater connection to their bodies. So they feel rooted to the ground and balanced. So they know the difference between needs and cravings. So they can tap into their own potential to heal their physical and emotional wounds.”

Maybe it would be most interesting, and somehow most relevant, to find out what kind of music a teacher likes, what their three favorite movies are, and the title of the last book they read. Come to think of it, Lainey might go for that after all.

David Todd’s bio, which she finds on the website of an obscure studio in Venice, at which, it appears, he no longer teaches, is pretty rudimentary: “David has been studying yoga for almost fifteen years. He came to the practice through martial arts. He tries to be as open and honest in his classes as possible, and to encourage his students to be as honest with themselves as possible.

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