A Reprieve

We finally got a break tonight from Posture Clinic. Tonight plus the next day & a half we have "The Fascia Guy", Jon Burras. Besides lecturing on the fascia, he will also be discussing how your mind creates your own reality [and dis-eases], positive mind/positive body, the health-care conspiracy, and naturopathic/alternative healing. Sooo interesting! I love that stuff!!

And what is even wonderfuller(!) is we were let out at 11 pm...can you imagine?

Great words of wisdom from John Salvatore, our 5 pm class yoga teacher: "F.A.I.T.H. Finally Allowing It To Happen".

Three postures to go...

Dialogue

The teachers say that the one's who struggle the most with their dialogue end up being the best teachers because they work so hard at it, and it stays with them longer. If that is the truth, I am going to be the BEST DAMN TEACHER in the world!!! Oh, I am having such a hard time with it. I get nothing but good feedback and great encouragement, but I am feeling very discouraged right now. I did Half-Tortoise this afternoon, and again it was choppy and slow. I just wanted to give up.

I had a little pity party for one during yoga class this afternoon, and cried it out. We had a great kick-ass visiting teacher, Lisa. It was the first time I was crying AND still kept doing the postures, that's how motivating she was! It also helped that she asked the teachers to move up into empty spaces among the students, and Damien was a couple of rows in front of me. That helped a lot. She played Bob Marley's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" at the end of class. That made me cry more, but it also felt like a message JUST for me.

I am not writing this for you to feel badly for me. This blog is my journal, and I am "trusting the process" that [like the song says] everything's gonna be alright. I want to be able to look back on this, and go "Ah, now I see...". Maybe it will also help future students.

I am okay now, just knowing there are only 4 postures left and Melissa will be here one week from today!!!

Week 6 done!

It was so nice to sleep in on Saturday. After the 11 am class, I went back to my room and sorted laundry. I hadn't gone to the laundramat for the past 3 weeks. I had bought a portable clothes drying rack before I left, so I handwash my yoga clothes after class, but it was time to give them a good wash and freshen the rest of my clothes. At the laundramat, I studied Bow Pose.

After laundry, it was back to my room for a nap, and then get ready to go outside "the Bubble". Michelle had gotten 8 tickets to see Chelsea Handler, a comedienne, at Caesar's Palace. This was the first time I had ventured out into the Las Vegas world for something other than groceries and laundry. The show was hilarious, although I must say that I actually thought the opening act, ? Wolfe was much funnier than Chelsea, but it was all good. We were all tired when the show was done, and were happy to get back to into our yoga bubble. There is waaaay too much sensory over-stimulation out there in the Lost Wages world - the slot machine noise, the crowds, the cigarette smoke, the traffic - oy vey, can't take it for long.

This morning, Michelle and I went to Whole Foods for groceries. We memorized Fixed Firm pose on the drive there and back. Never waste an opportunity to study!

We had arranged for the group to meet Pernille and Michael at the buffet for 2 o'clock as that was when P was finished her re-certification. Michelle and I got back just at 2, we were in line, and I look behind me and there is Lisa, Pernille, Michael AND DAMIEN!!!! OMG!!! We are THE luckiest training group!! For those of you that don't know, Damien teaches at the Edmonton studios, and went to teacher training with Melissa in Acapulco. So great to see him!

So far, we had Melissa D. and Shawna for 5 days, they just leave and P arrives, she leaves then Damien arrives. Damien is here until friday, and Melissa S. arrives the next Tuesday. We have such a wonderful studio of teachers and such wonderful support!!

6 more postures and then we are done Posture Clinic. Yay! That has been the hardest for me, the memorization, so I had better get at it! Start of week 7 tomorrow which means only 15 school days left before we are teachers...wow, still can't imagine it!