Get your Lulu Lemon, get your yoga studio and your camera. yoga every day, yoga every damn day...
With the strap, on a block, with the mat, yoga paws...Do 1 pose, your favorite pose, all day...
inside, outside, change your pants, change your shirt..
sports bra, naked yoga, underwater...booty shorts
hair up, make up, hair down, down dog,
instagram, facebook, twitter, yoga blog
follow Keno, google yogis, yoga every damn day.
If a tree pose falls in the studio and no one posts it on Instagram did you even do yoga today?
If you do 12 arm balances in the park but no one is there
did you even do yoga if nobody cares?
Crow pose, 8 angle, pincha myurasana, Virabhadrasana, 1, 2, 3
sirsasana, navasana, natarajasana, kapotasana, tree
Yogagram, elephant journal, yoga challenge, #yogaselfie...
SUP yoga, beach yoga, bikram yoga, hot yoga, yoga for free
in my bedroom, torn pajamas.
No music... no cameras...
surya namaskar a...
Did I even do yoga today?
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Teaching and Failing
So, I have been a really bad yoga journaler but I plan to do a lot of catching up and getting back into the swing of it.. Just a little update about my life and why things have spiraled completely out of control since my last post...
I got a little carried away with the whole yoga challenge thing and realized I was spending way to much time in front of my cell phone camera trying to capture the perfect picture and not being very yogic about it... So i took some time off from the "super star" poses and really have just been doing sun salutations and some simpler poses and focusing on my alignment and breath... Yes, dancer looks pretty but when you spend an hour practicing it, then failing to get your "perfect picture" it fucking sucks... its discouraging and I was really building negativity in front of my camera. So as meaningful as it is to do 15 Sun A's its not really something I felt like writing about...
Also, Tyler and I got engaged last month... which is fantastic but also carries a lot of stress. Now, if this wedding was solely for the two of us and everyone was as amazing as my mom about everything there wouldn't be an ounce of stress associated with it and not that this has ANYTHING to do with my yoga practice... my focus shifted slightly from "yoga is my life" to "i have to plan this wedding..." Needless to say we are way ahead of the game and it'll be smooth sailing as soon as we find a DJ and an officiant... it takes up a lot of my time. There was a week where I can honestly say I didn't make it to class at the studio out of pure exhaustion from working and wedding planning, gardening and just life in general... I feel like a bad yogi but at the same time, Yoga shouldn't be the cause of any kind of stress if your life and no yoga master would be rolling over in his grave if I didn't make it to class for a week. Its disappointing because I enjoy going to class but if it means I can't sleep for 24 hours I think its a wise decisions...
Had another teacher training immersion this weekend which is always great but I always find something negative to take away with it too.. I am in no shape to begin teaching classes. I get hung up on my words and quite frankly have no idea what I am doing. Granted I didn't have a plan for my sequence... my plan was to "wing it" lets just say the Taradactyl's wings are clipped, or broken... or I'm just a little baby Taradactyl and I don't know how to fly yet... Either way, I did not impress myself or anyone else. Granted, I could teach any pose, and give cues its tying them all together that was literally a WTF moment.
I just think about how passionately and eloquently I can speak sometimes and I wonder why that doesn't come out while I'm trying to teach yoga... there is some disconnect in my mind where my actions won't speak to my brain... I hope it comes with time because I really want to be a yoga teacher. I really really do. But at this point I wouldn't teach a free class to the homeless people dahn tahn.
I did like Yin yoga though... and I'd love to learn more about it because it really seemed to do a great deal for me and others seemed to like it also. Maybe that can be my claim to fame... quite / long / meditation poses. Yoga for Yinz - Yin Yoga. Open a studio / art gallery... pretty sure people would love it. I really felt a strong connection to Yin yoga... and I think a lot of other people would too! But then again, I thought I'd be famous by now for making bracelets and I can't even get the studio to cut me my damn check. Regardless... I like Yin Yoga....
I have a lot more practicing to do and a lot more to learn, a lot of bracelets to make, a lot of wedding to plan... a lot of hours scheduled in the chem lab. I need to slow down my pace of life...Yin might help me do that... Off to find a Yin yoga class because why not?
I got a little carried away with the whole yoga challenge thing and realized I was spending way to much time in front of my cell phone camera trying to capture the perfect picture and not being very yogic about it... So i took some time off from the "super star" poses and really have just been doing sun salutations and some simpler poses and focusing on my alignment and breath... Yes, dancer looks pretty but when you spend an hour practicing it, then failing to get your "perfect picture" it fucking sucks... its discouraging and I was really building negativity in front of my camera. So as meaningful as it is to do 15 Sun A's its not really something I felt like writing about...
Also, Tyler and I got engaged last month... which is fantastic but also carries a lot of stress. Now, if this wedding was solely for the two of us and everyone was as amazing as my mom about everything there wouldn't be an ounce of stress associated with it and not that this has ANYTHING to do with my yoga practice... my focus shifted slightly from "yoga is my life" to "i have to plan this wedding..." Needless to say we are way ahead of the game and it'll be smooth sailing as soon as we find a DJ and an officiant... it takes up a lot of my time. There was a week where I can honestly say I didn't make it to class at the studio out of pure exhaustion from working and wedding planning, gardening and just life in general... I feel like a bad yogi but at the same time, Yoga shouldn't be the cause of any kind of stress if your life and no yoga master would be rolling over in his grave if I didn't make it to class for a week. Its disappointing because I enjoy going to class but if it means I can't sleep for 24 hours I think its a wise decisions...
Had another teacher training immersion this weekend which is always great but I always find something negative to take away with it too.. I am in no shape to begin teaching classes. I get hung up on my words and quite frankly have no idea what I am doing. Granted I didn't have a plan for my sequence... my plan was to "wing it" lets just say the Taradactyl's wings are clipped, or broken... or I'm just a little baby Taradactyl and I don't know how to fly yet... Either way, I did not impress myself or anyone else. Granted, I could teach any pose, and give cues its tying them all together that was literally a WTF moment.
I just think about how passionately and eloquently I can speak sometimes and I wonder why that doesn't come out while I'm trying to teach yoga... there is some disconnect in my mind where my actions won't speak to my brain... I hope it comes with time because I really want to be a yoga teacher. I really really do. But at this point I wouldn't teach a free class to the homeless people dahn tahn.
I did like Yin yoga though... and I'd love to learn more about it because it really seemed to do a great deal for me and others seemed to like it also. Maybe that can be my claim to fame... quite / long / meditation poses. Yoga for Yinz - Yin Yoga. Open a studio / art gallery... pretty sure people would love it. I really felt a strong connection to Yin yoga... and I think a lot of other people would too! But then again, I thought I'd be famous by now for making bracelets and I can't even get the studio to cut me my damn check. Regardless... I like Yin Yoga....
I have a lot more practicing to do and a lot more to learn, a lot of bracelets to make, a lot of wedding to plan... a lot of hours scheduled in the chem lab. I need to slow down my pace of life...Yin might help me do that... Off to find a Yin yoga class because why not?
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