Teacher training, day 6

Today I wandered over to Banyen Books on 4th to buy the anatomy book that was recommended (and will be required on the later levels), Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais-Germain. I love Banyen - it's wonderfully and wackily new age-y, but it's also got a huge selection of really good books on variety of subjects including anatomy. I love going there even if I don't buy anything, it's got a quiet calming atmosphere I love to soak in. This time I got the book I came for, plus I bought a little statue of Shiva as Lord of the Dance, and Paul Grilley's new yin yoga DVD.

So, it was anatomy day today. Michael Conroy, a yoga teacher and a physiotherapist, came to give us a very brief lecture about anatomy. And quick - three hours isn't really enough to get into anything properly, so we quickly run through the skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory, lymphatic and digestive systems... all this, and Jason drove me home in the middle too to get the adaptor our lecturer had forgotten home so we could actually connect his Mac to the projector to show off his slides. I think the lecture was good, but it would have greatly benefitted from us having the lecture notes as it was so heavy on, well, information. I need to read the book a bit and digest the information some more - and of course we'll get more into the subject on the later levels of the course.

Practice afterwards was good - I think dissecting the poses on the lectures has been really beneficial, I find I'm concentrating more on my bandhas, and generally I'm just more aware even in very basic postures.

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