It was a Wednesday morning when Ashtanga yoga teacher and My Yoga Mentor Panelist David Swenson asked for his class to raise our hands if we were going to be at the Yoga Journal Conference for a full week. When I raised my hand, he looked me square in the eye and said with a knowing smile, "When it's all done, you're going to wake up the next morning with a Yoga Hangover."

No offense to David, who was my favorite teacher the whole conference, but I think he got that one wrong. If anything, I came back with an even stronger "Yoga Addiction." I couldn't wait for my next yoga fix. (I'm just thankful that this isn't the kind of addiction that requires rehab.) Luckily, I got my fix the next day as I was welcomed back to a class of shining, excited guinea pigs—I mean, students—on which I could try the new adjustments I'd spent the week perfecting.

In my class, I tried to be the Cheshire Cat like Chuck Miller. "You want to adjust so that you can gradually disappear, leaving only your smile as the visible sign of your happiness that your students are doing it on their own," he says. As I learned from Jivamukti teacher Alana Kaivalya, I used my "Barbie hands" to avoid the poking my students with the tips of my fingers. (In case your wondering, this means you keep your four fingers together and straight, and your thumb stays by itself a few inches underneath.

However, the things you learn in a workshop never translate exactly perfectly in a classroom setting. I quickly remembered why I don't do that many physical adjustments with my class. At most, I got to adjust three or four times. But I do think I was more efficient and this will only improve with experience.

BTW, my students liked my sub last week, but none of them requested that she become their regular teacher. (And the two new students who came for the first time last week, were back again this week!)