Q-Where are you coming from as a yogi: scientist, mystic or athlete? How does knowing this help you cultivate your authentic voice as a teacher? How does it help you play to your strengths and understand your opportunities as a teacher?
A-Initially I began yoga to get into shape – my goal was to feel happy and strong from the inside out.
It took about a month to fully grasp the breathing and understand the value it brings to your practice.
My next phase was the spiritual connection and taking my practice off the mat, slowly integrating my practice into my daily life. As I became stronger mentally, physically and spiritually- life all seemed to simply fall into place and my hunger to learn more about yoga grew. Today I would say my apporach is scientist, mystic, homiopathic and althete.
As we get into out karma yoga classes and get more aclimated with sequencing & cuing, I suspect we will gain the experience to understand all the health benefits of specific sequencing and poses, which all come simply by practice and repetition. We are indeed in grasshopper mode, soaking up every bit of of our training and mentally preparing our teacher queuing and classes.
My strength is asking for specific opportunities and motivating/empowering others, so it will be fun to see how our class grows even more once we all complete out karma classes.