Teacher training, days 2 & 3

This is hard work! I don't know what I was imagining, but somehow I thought I'd have an easy week with lot of free time and I'd just go to yoga and some nice lectures now and again. Having just spent the whole weekend doing little else than the training, I can see that I was completely wrong... this is going to be a full-time thing.

On Saturday we had a full primary series practice followed by a lecture by Bernie Clark about history of yoga. Practice was good - it's interesting to see "the other people" in the class too, and some of them are even total newbies to the ashtanga practice. Personally I don't understand it - I wanted to of course get qualification for a style that I love, but several people seemed to have jut picked a convenient course and have never even done an ashtanga style practice before. Then again, there are several reasons for people wanting the training - some of them just want a complementing exercise to their skills list, there is for example a guy who's a personal trainer, another one that runs a gym and a martial arts dojo and third one who's a soccer coach. So why not, we all have our reasons.

Highlights have been two Bernie's lectures though. He's a very good speaker and knows his stuff - he started with the ancient history and the pre-Vedic ages (around 6500 BC), went through Vedic, Brahamanic, Upanishadic, pre-classical and classical yoga on Saturday, and continued with the Tantra, Hatha and Modern yoga today. He's a fabulous storyteller, and he had a story to tell about everything - the heavy history dotted with the hard-to-pronounce names and holy books could be difficult otherwise but he totally made it come alive. My only regret was the we didn't have time to go through the very modern yoga history (from the past 20 years or so) - but then again if the price was that we got to hear his wonderful stories, so be it.

I should really start with my homework and start my class script, but I'm just too tired tonight. Lecture doesn't start until after one tomorrow, so I'll have time to do it then... just no lazying about.

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