Challenges

I got the monthly email from Sue's studio yesterday, and she's advertising me in it - I'm starting up some yin yoga classes for her next month. I think the classes I've been teaching at work are really starting to make a difference in my confidence - I'm just looking forward to this next challenge.

I've also finally started a yoga journal. I thought I'd want to keep an electric notebook but it just doesn't work that way - most often the thoughts or pieces of practice that need to be recorded come up in the middle of something completely different and need to be written down as soon as possible. So to have to wait until you get to a computer doesn't work, a real notebook is the best way to write down random yoga thoughts that come to my head.

Like yesterday - I was at Flow expecting to be taught by Jason or Kelly, but they had a substitute teacher called Christine Kelly was testing out. I hate substitute teachers, especially when they are covering for my favourite teachers - I'm so set in my ways and I like the fact that I know what the practice is going to be like that I often find it difficult to adjust to another way of teaching. And Christine was definitely different - she's coming from anusara background - and her flow was completely different. It required some serious readjustment to be able to be open to her teaching - I was really grumpy to begin with, almost like I didn't want to like her because she wasn't Kelly - but sometimes blessings come in disguises. It really is good to challenge yourself, in yoga and in other parts of your life.

Anyway, what I wrote down from her class was "please". She used "please" couple of times in her teaching, like "please come down to your hands and knees" which I found very sweet and pleasant. It also got me thinking about English language differences on the different sides of the Atlantic, how much more polite the language is back in the old country, for example "please" is used quite a lot more. I think that's something I'd like to add to my teaching, too.

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