home practice

I got a pretty valuable tip about teaching this week:  If you want to be a good instructor, you must keep up a regular practice (thank you, James).  This seems totally rational, but it's something I haven't been keeping up with - particularly since I've been in school.

I attended my first ever Mysore Ashtanga class about a week ago.  I made it as far as Parsvottanasana.  After I completed a bunch of Sun Salutes and did the obligatory rest of the series, the instructor told me to grab a copy of the primary series sheet and establish a home practice.  Wait, you mean I'm supposed to do the same thing everyday and hope to graduate to the second series in a matter of years??  Needless to say, I'm not sure Mysore is for me.  I failed to practice at home even once in the week following (though I did take a couple different classes). 

Shame on me?  Shame on the style?  I'm one of those yogis that requires classroom 

instruction - I just don't do it at home.  Perhaps if I lived in a quieter place.  Unfotunately, my street is the path of least resistance for emergency vehicles, and people seem to prefer getting others attention with car horns, rather than phone calls.  

All this thought of trying to make it work at home makes me again turn to technology.  The home practice is a hard nut to crack - maybe I can embrace distractions like Netflix to stream a yoga lesson?  I've never tried it, but I have the feeling won't come close to the classroom.