10,000 Vinyasas

Although I feel pretty qualified to teach yoga most of the time, I’m also aware that I lack the official certification (i.e., the 200 hour Yoga Alliance thingy), and without that, my opportunities to expand my teaching horizons are somewhat limited. As a result, I’ve decided that I need to bite the bullet and spring for the program; once that was decided, the problem was: which program? The most highly regarded one in the area still involved two weekends a month in Austin and this was kind of formidable in terms of logistics. Other meaningful courses would necessitate traveling long distances and staying for about 3 weeks, which would surely require me to lose a lot of potential business in my “other” job. Well, the local studio that I frequent seems to have come up with a solution: teacher training from Rosella Rossi, right here at home. It will take about five or six months, depending on the final scheduling, but it looks like this will fit my needs perfectly.

Other teaching notes: looks like my Thursday class is on the bubble, in terms of attendance, although we did have 9 people show up last night. I’d hate to lose this class, since it fits my location and schedule perfectly. Also, I’m going to be assisting another yoga teacher in conducting an adjustment workshop for yoga teachers at the gym that I teach at. Most of the yoga teachers don’t adjust students, out of fear, I think, and a workshop like this would be a good idea to get them more comfortable with touching people. I think that one reason that I’ve gotten so much good feedback from my students is that I’m not afraid to adjust them. I’m intending to do an entire post on that soon.