Zoom Yoga Wednesdays
Let’s try again! My visit to see my dad went well. Thanks for all your words of encouragement.
I’ve set up a recurring zoom meeting for Wednesdays until the end of August. So you can keep this invitation and use it every Wednesday until then (unless somehow we get a vaccine or a competent contract tracing program going before then).
Our test went well. I strongly advise that you use the Zoom app rather than the web browser version; people using the browser version had a lot of issues.
I will start the meeting 15 minutes early, so that you can all get logged in and figure things out, if necessary.
I also suggest figuring out how to switch between Gallery view and Speaker view before class starts, so that if you want to switch between seeing just me and seeing everyone, you won’t have to struggle with it after class starts. Here’s Zoom’s instructions on how to do that — it’s different from one platform to the next.
And here’s the invite link:
Topic: Gentle Yoga
Time: May 6, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Every week on Wed, until Aug 26, 2020, 17 occurrence(s)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89793154087?pwd=ZmZHQ2hwd0RCejJNdWdtVm90aGFmdz09
Meeting ID: 897 9315 4087
Password: judson
Payment? You mean you want to pay for coming to class? Okay!
You can do any of the options on my prices page on the website. And I do mean any. The tip jar is fine for this class. Actually, not paying at all is fine. I know lots of folks are having a hard time right now.
That’s the end of official business. Now I’ll ramble for you.
RAMBLINGS
I’m trying to figure out fair and equitable ways to support our studios so we still have spaces to practice in when the crisis has ebbed. Some of our studios’ landlords appear to be more compassionate than others. I feel that landlords who have no mortgage or other substantial overheads should be engaging in partial or total rent forgiveness for their tenants whose businesses are impacted by this crisis. While landlords like to brag that there are plenty of tenants if they have to evict one, build-out costs are not negligible plus the economy is still what it is. So if they’re not understanding, I’m less likely to want to contribute to paying them rent. On the other hand, if the landlord does take the nuclear option, we’re out a studio. So there’s what’s fair and just, and then there’s what’s necessary. Maybe I’ll just contribute to all my studios and let the studio owners sort it out for themselves. Above my paygrade and all that.
Robin and I got to see Dad briefly between facilities. He was being transferred from the hospital to the nursing home, and since insurance wouldn’t pay for an ambulance, Mom picked him up, and we rode in the car too. We stopped for a bite to eat. We gave and got hugs and held hands. The three of us all tested negative for COVID-19 immediately before all this, but we just have to hope for the best that Dad didn’t have it. (Hoping does seem to have worked out SO FAR, since a week later, none of us are sick yet. One more week to go.) Dad gets tested soon since he’s in an NHC facility and they’re testing EVERYONE as part of a new trial program.
I read the Knox County re-opening plan. It wasn’t as crazy as I’d feared, but we’ll see how it goes after the effects show up two weeks later. I just don’t think any level of our government is putting the proper focus on contact tracing yet, county, state, or federal. I hope it goes well, but I expect it won’t go well without the contact tracing.
We literally can’t have class in Balanced You yet because we couldn’t get the distancing required for gyms. Breezeway is a little better — Patty’s going to try to start some classes up using the actual outdoor breezeway — but I’m still too cautious to participate in that. The Glowing Body has its streaming programs going for now.
I’ve re-arranged furniture for what will hopefully be a better arrangement for Zoom teaching. I’d spent a lot of time previously planning out how to record streaming classes, but live teaching means that I also want to see y’all, and that means I need a giant monitor in my eyeline. It also means I can’t dub the audio later. It can’t be perfect, but as my wise mentor used to say, if something’s worth doing right, then it’s worth doing halfway. Something’s better than nothing.
namaste,
judson