Friday, February 11, 2011

YogaChunks

I'm starting to practice teaching yoga--I'm finding that I feel pretty comfortable doing small, familiar "chunks"--10-15 minutes.  And I finally got my son to agree to let me teach him a YogaChunk--I think the hour/hour and a half was just too intimidating for him.  I realized that I couldn't take anything for granted--instructions I thought were clear weren't.  Next time I'll do more demos--I think that will help.  I may have my first opportunity to teach an entire class in a few months; still quite intimidating to think about developing and going through 1 1/2 hours of material.  Wish I could ease my performance anxiety--it pervades everything I like to do--starting with music.  I've started playing the piano every day; it feels good, but brings back memories of how I just couldn't stick with it as the pieces got harder.  I would get frustrated with my slow pace of learning, and got very nervous when I had to give a recital--got worse as I got older. So now my goal is to enjoy playing, without thinking about performing.  But music is funny, as compared with the visual arts, for example--I have nothing to show for my work unless I perform.  I can't hold it up for people to look at, or display it on a wall.

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