I get my first taste of teacher training tonight, and I am so excited! I am keeping my heart open and my expectations flexible, but after planning for this since November, it’s hard not be tingling with anticipation. What will it feel like to officially be taking yoga seriously? Who are the other people in my training group, and how will we change together over the next ten weeks? I am eager to learn, and looking forward to sharing my experiences.
In honor of the official start of teacher training, I did something today that was decidedly out of my comfort zone: I self-promoted this blog. And I don’t mean that I told my close friends and family; I’ve been doing that gradually for a month now. I mean I emailed, facebooked, and twittered everyone remotely connected to me and told them to check out this blog–and to tell anyone and everyone all about it. As a result, I’m hopefully attracting some new traffic (Welcome!), and am using all my yoga tools not to feel pressured or judged.
I realize there will be people reading this post who may not necessarily know me or care about yoga, and that’s cool. I’m hoping to make both topics seem interesting, but mainly I’ve come to really enjoy sharing my thoughts on a subject that I find endlessly fascinating, and so I’m going to continue exploring and reporting. (For some brief background on why I started this blog, see my post Getting Personal.)
I have so much effort to give and so much potential for growth, and, most importantly, I’m willing to transform. I’m also willing to face my fears and to be vulnerable, and I can’t think of a better way to become fearless than to express my personal insights in a public forum. So thanks for coming along on the journey and giving me the chance to share my practice, and I hope you’ll benefit from my experience. Namaste!*
*I am trying to be conscious of tossing around yoga lingo so that unfamiliar or cliched words don’t put people off, but “namaste” (pronounced “nah-mah-stay”) belongs in every vocabulary because it is an awesome greeting and/or farewell. There are a few different ways to translate it, but my favorite interpretation is “The light within me honors the light within you.” Many yoga classes end with an exchange of “namaste” and, though it does unfortunately fall into the cliched category of yoga words, I always use it sincerely.
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