Teacher Training starts tomorrow!
I have been preparing intensely for Keric's and my 60-hour Anusara Teacher Training which starts tomorrow at Siesta Yoga. I can drive myself a little crazy with the over-preparing but it still is one of my most favorite parts: spending hours every day studying; going to bed with tons of yoga books until I fall asleep; reviewing old notebooks; journaling about the Universal Principles of Alignment... And then at some moment, letting it all go and trusting that the knowledge and wisdom is there. Showing up and being humble and open and letting the moment happen!
Tomorrow begins our 6-weekend training. And then next weekend Black Dog Yoga begins their 200-hour Teacher Training, which I am honored to be a part of for the fifth time in a row. And then a month from now, Hagar and I begin our 108-hour Anusara Immersion, with guest teacher Tara Judelle. So I will be literally part of three different trainings during the next few months. I am so excited and curious to see how it will go. It is scheduled in a such a way that it is doable (for instance one training will end as another begins). But still, it will be a lot, and I already feel myself worrying a bit.
I was re-reading our Anusara Yoga Teacher Training Manual and came upon one of my most favorite lines, "By surrendering you actually become vastly more powerful than the limited person that you usually identify with." I italicized the part that always gets to me. How we tend to identify with our limited aspects instead of with our vastness. How we tend to believe that who we are is our worry, our fear, our negativity. As I am getting ready to teach an incredibly talented group of yogis, I also get to practice yoga through the teaching of it. I get to remember that who we really are is a vast, powerful energy bigger than our ups and downs. That whenever I start to doubt or become fearful, I simply need to back off from this "pose" and realign again; reawaken to my own nature, which is ever-expansive and bigger than my worry.
The great inventor and genius Thomas Edison supposedly had a group of men called the "Insomnia Squad" who were there with him, working around the clock, so that no idea would be lost. Someone would always be awake should there happen to be a breakthrough in their research at their lab. I think that for us as yogis we need our own inner squad; maybe call it the "Inspiration Squad." There has to be a part of us ready to reawakens us to who we are, reminding us over and over of our true nature, never letting us go to sleep -metaphorically speaking- and miss our own vastness and power.
Have a great day everyone!

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