Week 2 consists of 4 classes for the "week." I'm counting my teaching weeks as follows: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Those are the days that I may or may not have classes. So the teaching week begins Thursday. Today's class went a lot better. My flow was on, I had eaten good food for dinner, thus having nice steady blood sugar levels for my ( Read more... )

I should be studying more dialogue, pouring over the words, saying them out-loud over and over. This is the only way to get it into my brain so that it comes out when I'm actively in front of a class, real time. Even if I don't, at this point it comes out anyway ( Read more... )

Week 6 and 7 updates! Huge differences between weeks 6 and 7. During week 6 I finally got my brain in the groove with memorizing and delivering postures in posture clinic. I was very happy to get in a rhythm. I knew what I needed to do in order to get the words in my head, how much time I needed, and what the results would be. This took away a lot ( Read more... )

Today on breakfast/lunch break I was studying in the parking structure of Marriott across the street from this hotel on the top floor (roof top basically, 7 floors up). It’s a secret study spot I have where no yogis or yoginis are, and it’s peaceful and I watch planes take off and land in at LAX, and study with whatever time I have between eating ( Read more... )

I have to say yesterday was a pretty successful day in general. My posture clinics went great. They were both postures that require high energy and crescendo - and fortunately that is something I can easily drum up. And my memorization was working. I can't express the relief. And we got our anatomy test results. I passed, so that's good. That's ( Read more... )

Full locust went far better than Locust. Thank goodness. Now onto Bow. At first I thought I was going to have to go before evening class for bow, but fortunately I did not have to. If we have evening posture clinic - fine. I just want to have enough time to lock in some verbatim words instead of flying by the seat of my pants ( Read more... )

SPARE TIME! I could be studying, but today I need to write a little more. This week has been great. I was super tired on Saturday, and particularly Sunday morning. My whole being was a little fatigued; I think it was the yoga catching up with me. 50some classes in 5 weeks will do that to you, I suppose. But Monday went well. Nailed Cobra - I did ( Read more... )

Not full of a lot of words right now. Not remotely. Week 5 has been interesting. Working through the posture clinics, working through the yoga, learning how to relax through situations that I just can’t be any better in. Booked Jim’s flight early in the week so he could fly in this weekend. I felt much more grounded all week long. I started off the ( Read more... )

One more posture behind me for posture clinics. "That was not bad..." was the feedback, along with try and string each line with each other. I really could have gave a fuck what she said to me today. At this point I'm already trying every way to retain dialogue so most little pieces of advice aren't new or anything. Not fair to teachers who start ( Read more... )

Preface this to say I wish I had time for details, but this will do: Week 4 come and gone. Time moves in a strange way here. Fast and slow simultaneously, 50/50… if you are not kicking back hard enough, you’ll lose the balance. I struggle. I struggle a lot with memorization, but maybe more than memorization I struggle with keeping myself on my own ( Read more... )