Yoga teacher training, day 1

Finally... the teacher training I've been waiting for so long started today.

There were about 19 of us in the end, and we started out with a flow class. It was a beginner-intermediate class which I haven't attended for ages, but the room had lot of energy and I got a really good practice. Lately I've been working on my down-dogs (yes, after three years of yoga), especially opening up the shoulders and turning the elbows downwards - it uses completely different muscles than if you don't turn your elbows, so it's really hard work, but on the other hand the open shoulders that result from it feel good. Today was really the first day I've been able to do down-dogs with this style when I didn't have to rest for several times - and in so many ways the practice was just spot on too. Otherwise pretty normal class, except in addition to instructions Jason kept adding in tips on how to teach the poses and what to look for in them.

To my surprise there were several of my yoga buddies in the class - not just Sue, but darling Annalies, Trevor and Nicole where there too, and looks like even Kristin might attend the classes - which was all fantastic. With that many people, there were many different stories, many different reasons for people to be there. I'll hope to get to know more of them, they seem like cool people.

After the class we had a lecture - it was mostly introductory stuff, starting from where the toilets are to going through the class structure and timetables. The idea is that Jason and Kelly will be teaching us a primary series-based flow class that we in theory could then take and teach ourselves - I hope we have time to do it, time is quite tight in just 60 hours that this first level has. In addition to lectures and classes every day we have Om-work (get it? get it?), some kind of brief home work: mainly prefatory reading, but we'll also be preparing a script for the class we're learning to teach.

We were encouraged to keep a journal throughout the course, so I'll probably be writing mine online in hopes someone else finds it useful too.

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