back to reality

As Eminem would say, back to reality, oh there goes gravity. Back to work. Back to teaching yoga. Back to my messy apartment. I taught a few yoga classes this week and tried to incorporate some of what I learned at Shiva Teacher Training without changing my teaching style and format too much. I don’t want to be lost or lose my students trying to teach them something I only half ass know. I forgot how there is a whole process for me after I learn something I want to teach in yoga. I have to bring it home and practice it on my mat alone quite a bit and also practice teaching a friend before I take it to class. I tried to incorporate more flow into my classes, which are Vinyasa style. I incorporated more pulsations while holding poses, more body vinyasas moving the limbs while in poses, and rhythmic vinyasas, going back and forth between two poses, all connected with breath. I think it went pretty well. I feel like I need to find more words for the philosophical aspect of yoga. I know all the queue’s for alignment, but once people are in poses I feel like I want to say more about the true essence of yoga but I’m not sure exactly what to say. I am not looking to say anything super spiritual, but some of the yumminess that people don’t really think about but are feeling in their bodies. I am going to bring the nerd in me out and make some index cards to study and bring to class with my favorite yoga tidbits to share. I also love teaching to my yoga mix! It’s so much better to do yoga with good tunes. It has some rock n’ roll (uh duh, i am teaching roxtar yoga) and some great yogi tunes from Shiva’s mix cd Yoga Rhythms. I highly recommend her music compilations. You can purchase most of them on amazon or google them to find other online stores selling them.