Showing posts with label yoga teacher training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yoga teacher training. Show all posts

Monday, 20 June 2011

feeling overwhelmed

I just went to my yoga class.  Left feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the task that I have ahead of me in becoming a yoga teacher.  how can I teach if I can't do these poses? how? I know that it is all about going as far as you can go, and that is fine if you are a student, but I am feeling increasingly aware of how not near the 'final' pose I am and how I am definately not an 'advanced' practicioner.  and it makes me feel kind of sad.  I know that this is a Klesa, an affliction of pride and self and so on.  I know its about me letting go of the end result because this striving and falling short of the end result is all against the yamas I have been learning about.  It just feels like a disconnect and that even thinking about it or feeling down about it feels like a two pronged double not right.  And I just feel like a big fat glass of red wine. 

I also know the only answer is more practise.  I feel like one of the crap dancers on dancing on ice.  Like how am I ever going to pirouette or whatever when I can't even skate a straight line. 

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

yoga teacher training

Just been to my first meeting of the Vajrasati Yoga Teacher Training.  I am slightly um, scared!  Its like standing in front of Mount Everest as a novice climber and being aware that this is the mountain I am going to climb.  It is requiring a BIG commitment of time.  I am going to really have to work at scheduling it into my life.  I am only 'allowed' to miss 2 sessions per term.  I am already missing the first session due to the Do What You Love retreat!  And hmm, I have so many holidays already planned in my head....I have explained that I will try and juggle everything so that this term looks OK and that I will get better as I have fewer plans set for Autumn and Winter.  There is a buddy system and we are expected to meet up regularly and there is 2.5 hours homework a week and 3 hours actual tutoring and then we are kind of expected to be doing 8 hours of practice a week too.  Though at the same time we are not to stress about this.... HA.  Its kind of huge.  There are only 5 of us doing the course.  And so far everyone seems really really cool.  I think we are going to get on really well.  I hope I can manage to carve out the time for myself on this one.  Its a biggy!!