Teacher training, day 9

I started the yoga day with Lily's flow class - I think Jason is trying to expose us to different teaching styles as much as possible which is certainly interesting. Lily was a giggle, again totally different approach to flow than our other teachers. Not very demanding, but it doesn't always have to be.

We only had three hours of lectures today, so we finished going through our class scripts - Padmasanas and Savasana, and then teaching the seated sequence to each other. Today I partnered up with Rick which was a bit intimidating as he's just come back from Mysore and therefore had the "advanced" aura in my head - but he turned out to be not scary at all. Funnily enough, seated series seemed a lot more complicated to teach than the standing series - I have no idea why. I plowed through it though with Rick's gracious help... I'd like to say I'm getting the hang of it, but I'm not sure if that's true - it's true in the way that I'm becoming more used to it (comfortable? I'm not going to say that), I know that the nervousness goes away once I start. But not in the way that I still get lost for words and have to stop and think how poses are done, and I have to go about doing it myself before catching on.

After the practice teaching (and I got more sweaty with teaching than practicing!) I asked Rick something that has been bothering me, I asked if he found my accent a hinderance in understanding me. He said "not at all", which basically meant that all the funny looks were just about me forgetting what to call those thing in the end of your legs and so on... felt relieved.

(It's funny what yoga does to your mind - I was watching Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones yesterday, and when the enemy general says "We must order a retreat" the first thing that came to my mind was a yoga retreat with meditation and gentle asaana practice... I couldn't get that image out of my head...)

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