Yoga

Insights from My Self-Yoga Practice: Coincidentally, I started trying yoga during the 2020 pandemic, purchased a Keep membership, and followed their hot yoga classes. After several years of persistence, I can indeed gradually perform many poses. The guidance from video instructors, in my personal opinion, might even surpass many in-person training classes. This is because I have a simple logic: No matter which yoga instructor it is, they surely want to put their best side, the most detailed explanations, and the most refined content into their videos. And no matter who it is, everyone will slack off at work sometimes. Single in-person classes usually have a relatively low real return for them. So, it’s possible that few people genuinely teach with the idea of making sure you get your money’s worth; often, classes turn into listening to the teacher show off or chat. However, in preparing videos, on the one hand, they gain higher returns due to the leverage principle, and on the other hand, even if not solely for money but for reputation and sustainable development, they will surely eliminate unnecessary chatter and present their most professional selves. I believe the same holds true for other training classes, such as learning German. Good, concise, and systematic online courses are not easy to prepare. For in-person courses, you just observe the reactions and feedback of a few students; they might come for the reputation, or more likely, for convenience, suitable time, location, etc. However, online courses inevitably face competition from many other high-quality courses. If one doesn’t take it seriously, it’s impossible to gain everyone’s trust and commitment to follow along. If you personally don’t have unique enough insights or concise enough summaries, then perhaps you can only win by leveraging first-mover advantage, location scouting, filming, or sheer video quantity. ...