If you as a yoga teacher adjusted students as a way of enhancing their light, not correcting, but enhancing...

If you as a teacher taught and spoke from that place, then, I believe (and said this to the group), you'll be a great teacher.

I quoted an excerpt from Galway Kinnell's poem "St. Francis and The Sow:"

"...sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness.."

I spoke of how as yoga teachers our job is to "reteach" our students their loveliness; to remind them either verbally, or through our gaze, or through our touch, or through our intention, that we are one and that the practice of yoga is a way for all of us to connect to our divinity.

Afterwards I did this game where three people would be doing a pose with a misalignment and then the "teacher" had to pick out the misalignment and either verbally or with a prop, help the "students." I thought that it was a challenging yet fun learning experience and people did really well and learned from watching each other.

This group is incredibly sweet and tight. There's a sacred space that has been created and I'm so honored to be a part of this. My close friend Jenny Brill who is an amazing teacher and who's also part of this training was helping me out today and at one moment we looked at each other and we both had tears in our eyes. We felt like proud mothers. My chickens!  We just have a few more weeks to go and then it's over!

I ended our session with a meditation. It was a very feeling oriented meditation and I asked the students to hold each other in their hearts, and send a blessing to each other. It was more detailed than that but I won't say more... I then asked them to turn to the person next to them and share an insight they learned from today's session. Lastly I asked if anyone wanted to share anything with the group, and some did. It was all very moving. I noticed some people were sad because they felt that they didn't do well in the exercise. It took all my strength to not call or email them or take care of them. I know they know I'm here if they need to talk and I know they know that I totally relate to how challenging it is to teach yoga. I also know that sometimes people have to cry and then they feel better afterwards.

I truly believe in all of them.

We bowed to each other, finishing with a heartfelt "namaste."