You Said It! (thanks for the love)
Huge, heartfelt gratitude to all who contributed your loving words to this assignment! I will soon be beginning the next phase of my yoga teacher training and last week on Facebook asked for some help with my pre-training assignment.
The assignment said, “Describe who you are (or who you want to be) as a yoga teacher. Include but do not limit this to the style of teaching, style of yoga, unique areas of emphasis and your mission as a yoga teacher. Think about what is important to you. Make this a creative and inspired piece as opposed to a dry list of points.”
Here’s what I turned in to my teacher…
“I am pure freedom. I courageously teach, learn, inspire, and love.”
~Me, my Dharma Code
My main focus is to live my life’s purpose, as is stated above.
I strive to remember the ultimate goal of yoga:
Yogas citta vrtti nirodhah.
Teaching yoga is an extension of my yoga practice and helps me
practice having a calm, focused mind.
I am most successful at teaching as an extension of my practice when I teach more active styles of yoga such as Vinyasa and Yoga Flirt, these styles challenge me and force me to be present. I am more successful at teaching the wisdom of yoga, such as the Yamas and Niyamas, to women as I can share my experiences as a woman and how these concepts helped me transform the way I see myself and life.
My mission is to share what I have learned and experienced through yoga with other women, so that they too can transform the way they see themselves, and get a killer work-out at the same time. ( I think of it as a work-out that sneaks in the work-in)
I believe that Yoga Flirt, which combines the wisdom of yoga with the free-flying experience of pole fitness, is a Divine gift given to the world to introduce yogic wisdom to women who would otherwise not practice traditional yoga.
One of my strengths as a teacher is that I can easily see what a student needs on a physical level and know what guidance to give them to move them further, deeper or more skillfully in their physical practice.
I would like to improve my ability to guide students deeper in the internal practice.
No matter what I think or feel about my teaching, what is most important to me is how it lands on my students, so I have surrounded myself with their loving words.
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