1st Certified Class!

I did it, I did it!

  I had been so stressed about teaching my first real yoga class with strangers.  I had been thinking about this day for weeks now.  I knew it was coming.  I kept practicing and practicing with friends and family.

Finally the day came, and I woke up feeling good.  Surprisingly, I felt a new calmness about my yoga class I would be teaching that day.  I had been meditating and asking the divine to help me rid my anxiety.  I gave myself permission to bring a script up to my mat with me in case I forgot what I had planned.  I decided to be open with my students and let them know that I am a newly certified yoga instructor.  I decided to be ok with myself, just being me.  Not some amazing yoga instructor I had been to before.  Just me.

 With these realizations and promises to myself I came to find my peace.  I was able to allow authenticity occur.  I was able to allow ego to sit aside.  I was able to flow with the earths energy and pick up intuitivly on what my students needed that day.  A script was helpful where to go, but intuition was my true guide.

So how did it go?

I think it went well.  My students said they enjoyed it at the end of class.  They said it was a great combination of relaxation/stress relief and movement.  Sure, they may have been being nice and encouraging because they are polite and knew this was my first class as a certified yoga instructor.  Either way, I am accomplishing my goal.  I am moving forward into a uncomfortable newness, but I am also growing into my newness.  A new way of living, breathing, and looking at things.

Yoga is teaching me so much about myself.

Yoga is teaching me so much about the world.

Yoga is teaching me how I want to live my life in this world.