Two Training Weekends Down, Five To Go

I've spent some time in the last couple weeks thinking about what I'd like the focus and tone of this blog to be. The final decision: yoga updates, book reviews, and anything else that I feel compelled to share. The tone: enthusiasm!

I should give a little update on my prior posts. I was nervous that I would lack confidence when it came to speaking up in class and having my body looked at. I'm happy to report that I haven't been. I was only nervous because I wasn't sure what I was walking into. It's a small group of kind, supportive people. At this point in life, I don't have much to hide. I am so ready to grow and feel forward motion that throwing myself into a mildly uncomfortable situation feels good.

The concern du jour is this: I teach four sections of the same English class. By default, I go over the same material four times a day. Some parts of the class are repeated more than once per section (things like homework and essential tasks/concepts). I spend a lot of time feeling like a broken record. So imagine my disappointment when it came up in yoga teacher training that there's a huge need to come up with different ways to give instructions because you will wear out on saying the same things over and over. Rats! This is one thing I probably could have anticipated if I took the time to think about it, but I preferred to think that teaching yoga is going to be the panacea for all of my little dissatisfactions. That's not realistic. But I'm still really happy to be doing what I'm doing. I have a few more of these little reality checks to write about in future posts.