General impressions
There were apparently around 60 people signed up and in the morning the room was pretty full; in the afternoon it looked emptier. The audience appeared to be quite mixed - yoga teachers, academics, health professionals ...
I came to the realisation a while back that it is fundamentally impossible to separate duality from non-duality in everyday life. They both need each other to exist. Hopefully that can help you remove your experience from the academic philosophical ...
"I can't do yoga." As a yoga teacher, I hear people say this a lot. Or "I can't meditate, I tried it once and I can't do it." I find this sentence increasingly bizarre. (Of course, it's partly based in a misconception of what meditation ...
Based on someone's description of what they are experiencing, a library of Yoga postures in our mind can't be used like a pharmacy, from which we can take a posture that we think will help, and then prescribe it. This is not Yoga.