Good to know that this experience was exceptional.

To be perfectly fair, it was a lunch-hour class with a kind of efficient, get-in-get-out schedule, and I was rushed along to it by a coworker who goes all the time. It's quite possible that Assumption Man started out with the assumption that I was as experienced as my friend, and likely that he just didn't feel there was time for a lot of one-on-one communication.

I do intend to try again with a different instructor, because I already know the benefits of yoga, and I'm long overdue to get those benefits for myself once again.

And this is Portland ferchrissakes. Yoga studios are almost as numerous as bike shops. :D