Teaching Again..

Weeks 13 and 14 of training are now in the past.     The classes are now focusing Practicums  (where we teach the each other as a group and are critiqued) , practical items such as ethics and business, class sequencing,  and some final Yoga topics like teaching back bends.   With only four weekends to go,  the ending of training will be soon upon us and I will be unleashed to the world.    

From my perspective,  200 hours of training just scratches the surface of what there is needed to be learned.   The amount of information is enormous  and it is difficult to synthesize all of it.  I have been taking time to review anatomy as remembering all of it is very difficult.   I also have been working on a creating booklet of standard poses with steps to get in and out of the pose and cues while in the pose as a way of making sure I have a good mastery of each pose that I plan on teaching.  I see now that learning about and teaching Yoga is a lifelong experience, and I have been putting a half an hour aside each day to learn something new. 

I am starting up teaching free classes again.   I am excited to  teach and I am preparing as we speak.  I will focus on introducing students to a number of poses,  get them comfortable with those poses and then build on from there.     I have been working on how to introduce people to harder poses while still allowing them to be safe and in control.  It takes a great deal of time to build your first practices and I am really enjoying the work.    I am very happy that I took the teacher training plunge.   It was a great decision on my part.

Namaste.