Questionnaire results: '08 Updated weekly, stay tuned. '09 soon

WHAT WORKSHOPS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE AT ZANZILLA? - Nutrition, Meditation, Natural Healing - Iyengar, any visiting teachers - Reiki, it seems very intrigiuing but I don't know much about it. - Not sure - Breathing workshops and Self-Healing Massage - I'm not sure yet. I liked the idea of the Forgiveness Meditation but couldn't make it. - I don't know enough to answer this - Group meditations. - Yoga is fine. Bikram yoga would be good too. (note from Z: Bikram is at Bikram studios only) - Can't think of anything in particular - I don't have time for workshops - I haven't thought about any workshops, but I like what you offer. You always have something new, or something I've never heard about that is curious to me! - I don't have time/money to do anything these days - Chakra Balancing - Laughter Yoga - Meditation, Naked Yoga (note from Z: sorry pal UM..NO!) - I'd like to see workshops on body motions like: The Art of a Backbend or Inversions. MAybe a class where the end of a 4-week progression is to have open hips. - Hmmm Nutrition is always helpful but I would come to your location more for classes as opposed to one-time workshops. DO YOU ENJOY VIGOROUS YOGA, MID-RANGE EFFORT, OR "STRETCH & RELAX" Vigorous - 10 mid-range - 12 "Stretch & Relax" - 6 Enjoy all types - 8 Comments about levels: "Yin is my favorite right now because my life is crazed!" "I go to the gym for vigorous workouts. I come to yoga for serenity." "Mid range to vigorous flow...needs to work all parts of the body, core, legs, upper body, mixing it up is most enjoyable." (note from Z: My training at the ashram and with Erich Schiffmann did not teach us to make this a "full body workout". Legs, arms, etc. it sounds like the description of a gym workout. Yoga classes emphasize body MOTIONS, not body PARTS. For example, twists, backbends etc. From my experience as a personal trainer in the past, body PARTS are worked on alternate days anyway.) WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MORE OF? - Yin yoga - rock classics class - 90 day series - $10 drop-in - wider music selection - intermediate poses - dance - Level 1 classes after 5:30pm - Power yoga classes - More parts of body involved in practice instead of specific focus (note from z: Sorry. I disagree. Read the above comments from the same person.) WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE LESS OF? - "Repetitive sun salutations" (z: aren't they repetitive by design since way back when?) - "Super difficult poses. If more than 50% of the class cannot do it and we're sitting there waiting for the move to be finished then move should be dropped." (note from z: Sorry again. But at what point does TEACHING happen? I offer different stages of the pose. If you are sitting waiting instead of trying one of the pre-requisite stages, then you aren't trying. Poses are not "moves". Yoga is more about dynamic stillness than about "moves". Also, those poses are never learned if they are never taught. p.s. same person who attends once yearly made all these complaints. Dang!) WHAT DO YOU THINK SO FAR?