Teacher training, day 4

Today we got down to business. We dissected Surya Namaskar A by going through all the poses, discussed them and did them with modifications, and after that we got to teach it to each other. Teaching yoga, that's the whole point of this exercise... but let me tell you that it's a lot more difficult than it looks. First of all, I've got about about five seconds max per breath to give instructions: "Inhale, hands up", "Exhale, dive down" and so on... and it isn't a whole lot. Nicole was my guinea pig and very gracefully she took my instructions - I guess it was ok, but I was nervous as hell. Very interesting though... or "learning experience" as my mom would call it.

Then I stayed with Helena and Stacey for a beginners class to observe it (which is part of the training), and that was very interesting too. The whole class starts with confusion when everyone are wildly flailing about with sun salutations, but by the end of the class the people have harmonized and are moving in unison and finish with a harmonic Om. Very impressive, I'm glad I got to see that.

What would a day be be without practice though, so I stayed for the advanced class. It's strange, I would have thought that the whole day would have sucked all the energy out of me, but on the contrary I had an excellent practice and was feeling very strong. There might be something miracle-ish going on here too as my wrist has quite unexpectedly gotten a lot better due to a supplement I've started taking (but more on that later) - the result is of course that my yoga is a lot stronger when I don't have to shy away with putting weight on my hands. And that reflects in pretty much every single pose.

Hard work, but worth every second.

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