Yoga Journey

We had our official teacher training introductory session yesterday.  About 25 people have signed up to take the year-long program.  An interesting mix of people--with what I would guess is a bell curve of ages--a few people just starting out, perhaps half a dozen of us retired from one career searching another, and the remainder people in their 30s/40s.  All but two are women, but that's true overall of our yoga studio (Sun and Moon Yoga)--mostly women.

I'm excited and nervous about possibly becoming a yoga teacher--I don't know whether I'll make a good teacher; that is to say, that I'll like teaching.  And people get so attached to specific instructors; I don't know whether I'll be able to "break in" somewhere.  I do want to start getting an idea of the types of places where that might be receptive to a new instructor.  And since I'm especially interested in yoga as a tool to help those with mental health challenges, I'll look at hospitals and wellness programs as well as the "usual suspects"--studios, Ys, and community rec programs.

So I'll be chronicling my yoga teacher training journey in this blog in the coming months.  We have some intensive weekend workshops coming up--two weekends in a row.   So add to the excitement the guilt of not being with my family when they're more likely to be home--evenings and weekends.  In fact, it's starting to feel like I live in an opposite world.  My volunteer work--nonprofit boards, choirs--and the yoga teacher training all rely on evening and weekend hours, since so many people involved work for pay during the day.  So I exercise and write and study during the day, and attend meetings and rehearsals and workshops evenings and weekends.

That means my goal of cooking family dinners more often is harder to achieve--I often have to leave for a meeting, rehearsal or workshop/class before my husband gets home from work.  I need to find meals that I can cook in advance and have available.  Looks like my slow cooker, which I purchased with much fanfare (and web-based research) last spring, needs to come out of the cupboard.  If I can remember where I put it...