Half the room turned the wrong way


I was in a hot yoga class last week, moving through a flow we had already practiced twice. The sequence felt familiar and the rhythm was established. The instructor gave a verbal cue while simultaneously opening her arms to demonstrate the move, easy! However, given where she was standing and the direction she faced, if you were following her physical cues exactly, you'd turn the wrong way. As you can imagine, half the room pivoted in the wrong direction. The other half, the ones who followed...