Day 11. Guest Teacher
Right now I am sitting in the lounge and Amy Delozier is teaching the 5:30 PM class. I can hear her voice but not what she’s saying. I can hear that there is music playing but not what that music is. I am really happy for my students because I know they are in good […]
Day 9. Tired
I’m really tired tonight. I am sitting on the couch, laptop on my lap, UConn vs Louisville on the TV, G making me jump by shouting, “Atta Baby!” at unpredictable intervals. I woke up tired this morning, and my espresso did nothing. Came home after class, ate and fell asleep again, startling awake with the […]
Day 8. Teaching myself a lesson.
Today I did something really stupid: I took my contacts out before my shower and instead of letting them soak in Refresh solution, I soaked them in Clear Care. Clear Care needs overnight to neutralize. Before it neutralizes, if you put your Clear Care soaked contact in your eye, it burns like lye. I didn’t […]
Day 7. The Leader Board
Today marks the end of week 1. The party is over. All the “first day of school” excitement has faded. Now we are starting to get serious, people. Now we crest into the hardest week: Week 2: Hammer Time. It is really going to be hard to keep on coming this week. This is the […]
Day 5. I wish my students could see what I see.
A yoga teacher is like a conductor. He/she can orchestrate a class, but how it sounds depends entirely on the skill and inspiration of the players. Tonight I went to class thinking I would lead the Meditative Posture flow, which involves lots of churning, OR, depending on who showed up, and their mood and energy, […]
Day 4. Falling out of Tree
Classes have been packed. Like, so packed that people are fighting over the stones. (Not really fighting, but they are getting anxiety attacks about not getting one, of getting shut out. It has happened a few times, but not many. But today classes started to thin out a bit. No class was completely filled. I […]
5 of My Favorite Things
You know how they say the best things in life aren’t things? This is so true. No doubt about it. Things are just stuff. Things are burdens. Things take up physical, and mental, and energetic space in your life. If we got rid of 80% of our things, our lives would be lighter and happier. […]
Day 2: “Oh no, you can’t take that away from me.”
There’s a new meme going around, and here’s the yoga version of it: I wish I hadn’t gone to yoga. Said no one ever. But it’s really hard to get up for morning yoga, especially if you live half an hour’s drive (or longer) from the studio, and you have to go to work directly from […]
Day 1. (from the seat of the teacher)
Hells yeah, I’m tired. 4:30 wake up? Srsly? Me? The one who needs 9 hours to just be semi-human? I went to bed at 8:50 last night, set the alarm for 4:30 but could I sleep? Hells no. Just as I was getting into some deep REM action: Bam. Alarm. But I was excited. I […]
The 2013 April Yoga Challenge
I have just finished cleaning the studio and hanging the chart: I was a big softy this year and let in a few more than my stated “60.” I did it because in the past, even though people pay, and have every intention of participating, some people never, (or hardly ever,) show up. For those […]
