I’m still teaching yoga online as I have been doing since last March. This past week, on Tuesday, at lunchtime, I checked my class roster and to my delight, I saw one of my pre-pandemic regulars! We didn’t have a chance to connect immediately after class so I reached out by email to let her know how happy I was to have her in class again. Her response really hit home: it felt like a little bit of normalcy for her. It was also a little bit of my old normalcy for me, too.
Continue reading “Forging a New Normalcy”Plans!!!
It’s that time of year when I love to make plans. Part of my process is laying out my teaching plans for the year. This is one of the exercises that helps me to see my deepening understanding as a yogi and growth as a teacher. I’ve wrapped up my planning for my classes and I’m very excited at the curriculum I’ve constructed.
Strong Back, Soft Front, Wild Heart – Inspired by “Unlocking Us”
I’m blessed to be part of a “power trio” discussion group that meets by phone each week. For the past four or five months, we have used Brene Brown’s “Unlocking Us” as the jump off point for our conversation. We take turns leading and the leader picks which episode we are going to discuss. The discussions are lively, loving, and much looked forward to each week.
How Much “Woowoo” is Too Much in a Yoga Class?
I wonder about this frequently. I wonder about it from both a student’s and a teacher’s perspective.
