Yoga crushes

News don't travel too fast, but the bottom line is that my mom is out of the surgery, alive and feeling positive. Mood changes slowly, but by the time I was on my mat at 11 am I was feeling good. We practiced teaching, and then had Jesse's lunch time class, after which Shannon came to talk to us about how to market ourselves as yoga teachers.

It's always great to see Shannon, and she had a lot of really interesting stuff to say. She started out by saying that we had to be proud of being teachers and that when we introduced ourselves we needed to believe that we were yoga teachers. It was funny - like yogaholics anonymous she pointed to couple of people who had to stand up, say their names and declare that they were yoga teachers. It's weird, so weird, to say that, and I'm not quite sure I believe it yet. Shannon said that we had to believe in being teachers, otherwise we'd never become one - her talk was all about being in the right mindset that you need to be able to make the change.

Shannon is definitely one of my - what I call - yoga crushes: yoga people who've had a profound influence in me and that changed my life. My first yoga crush was Paul Grilley who I met last March who opened my eyes to anatomy and my body - maybe the single biggest event that has affected my practice. Since then my practice has taken a totally different and more personal approach - I'm no longer trying to practice somebody else's yoga. Then there was Bernie who I've come to know and love during this teacher training. My latest yoga crush is Padma and I have a feeling I'll be following her for a while - I really want to study the yoga sutras with her when she starts her teaching again this fall.

It's really amazing to meet these people who have the compassion and wisdom to change my life and way of thinking in the space of few hours. Truly a privilege.

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