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thats a drag Oliver, wont be for ever anyway, you be riding again soon :-)
For readers regarding Yoga,
please allow me to divulge something going on which could affect anyone approaching the science for the first time.
my source for this is a couple of my teachers, and the Independant Yoga Network
The fitness industry wants dominate Yoga Teaching and Yoga Teacher Training. The fitness industry bodies, Skills Active and Register of Exercise Professionals (REPS) have recently instituted the National Occupational Standard for Yoga, and are seeking to make this standard mandatory within the fitness industry and beyond, requiring Yoga Teachers to register with REPS.
The British Wheel of Yoga is quite prepared to co-operate with and participate in this development.
The National Occupational Standard actually applies to the teaching of all fitness regimes at NVQ Level 3 thereby implying that Yoga is a fitness regime similar to Aerobics and Step Classes. Moreover, it implies that the fitness industry has the moral right to say who can and who cannot teach Yoga. It also claims that the fitness industry has a higher perspective on Yoga than Yogis themselves.
The Independant Yoga Network, however, believes that the National Occupational Standard is completely inappropriate for Yoga. Not only that, but we believe that it gives the wrong message to the public about the real nature of Yoga and will hinder its crucial movement into the mainstream of western culture and compromise its essential independence
Basically, you can find teachers out there who dont even have a personal practice, delivering what are at best sexy stretching classes.