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By heather | November 20, 2008
Last week, I taught an awesome yoga class. I say this because when a class just works – sequencing, music, students – it’s almost as if the molecules in the air re-arrange themselves and you can feel the positive energy in the air. Everyone leaves feeling good.
I’ve always taught my classes – whether step or yoga or cycle – by making it up as I go along, which means some are great and some really suck. Really really suck. The really great sequences are likely never to be seen again, which is unfortunate but at least it never feels stale.
When I teach a really great class, it makes me want to teach more. But lately, buoyed by my newly discovered personal practice and the feeling of not enough time EVER, I’m considering going on teaching hiatus.
Really awesome classes are getting farther apart. I enjoy it while I’m there and doing it, but there is no joy in the anticipation. Part of the reason (a lot of the time the only reason) that I keep teaching is because it gets me to the gym and I know from experience that I’m not the best at working out of my own volition. If I’m obligated, I’m there…if not, well…
Then again, I’ve been teaching some type of weekly fitness classes since I was 19. How can I give it up? It will be like giving up the last piece of my college-age self – the one who actually owned (and wore) a unitard, yo.
Topics: self improvement, yoga | 2 Comments »
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November 20th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I think that if this does make you happy, in even the smallest of ways, you should totally do it. Sometimes we miss our chance to do something we are passionate about. Its not always going to be perfect, but at least its getting to do something you love.
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
i used to own and wear a unitard, too.
scary, yo
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