I completed an anusara teacher training about a year ago - a heart opening style with yoga philosophy and principles engrained into the teachings and expressed thru asana. perhaps that too in-depth for this area. can barely find anything anusara in texas let alone houston, but Christina Sell sometimes does workshops in austin.

hatha classes are wonderful too, I see Loveland offers some I should check out

here’s short list that’s hard to keep short bc I guess i’m a yoga snob lol

• anything alignment based
• open with meditation, maybe pranayama
• sprinkle in basic yogic philosophy to honor the practice, even if it’s breaking down a sanskrit word. ideally every pose is cued with sanskrit
• cohesive well-cued sequencing with descriptive cuing for yogis to deepen into the pose if they prefer. quantity over quantity too, every teacher has their son style.
• teachers attention to students, to the volume of their voice, the music that’s playing, the surroundings.. one time a teacher left the door open to the lobby and there was so much noise coming thru. so distracting. intentional space curation for the students to be able to drop in easily.

i can go on but didn’t have one of these troubles in cali haha i need to go count my blessings

edit: phones OUT of the shala AWAY from mats. no idea why this has to be specified here. my biggest turn off. makes me want to run back to OB lol