Originally Posted by
j44ke
Over the last couple years, there has been a lot of discussion in NYC about injuries from yoga as a result of inexperienced/poorly or insufficiently trained teachers and a shift to a more intense, competitive energy in a lot of yoga classes. If you are doing this to help with recovery from an injury, check out the teachers and the temper of the classes and be willing to walk out and try a different one. Pilates may be a better choice simply because (at least in my experience) the class sizes tend to be smaller (especially for reformer work,) there is established training for pilates that brings some uniformity, and many of the teachers are not "just" pilates instructors, but former dancers, PT's, nurses, etc. who use pilates as it was intended - as physical therapy recovery from injury.