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Last night, even if I was extremely tired, I grabbed my yoga mat and walked over to the studio. I haven’t been there in a while actually. Felt good to take a class at night. It was a more gentle class taught by the owner. Exactly what I needed. My balance was really good and I felt stronger in my knees, so all the work I have done at the gym must have paid off:)

After class I saw the workshop flyer on the wall. I knew she had them printed a while ago but I hadn’t seen them yet. It looked nice. Hopefully people will sign up for this workshop. I’m excited to teach and I think this will be a fun class. I’m extremely nervous of course cause I don’t know who could show up and it’s a class for anybody, no previous experience needed, which makes it interesting but also tricky since I don’t know how much material I need to prepare for it in case I need to change throughout the class. And there are many ways I can take this class. I’m trying to not make it into too much dance, it’s just inspired by it, and I want to fit in all the things from the description of course and also make it ok for all body types. It’s a challenge but an exciting one:) 

Last night I had two neighbors coming to the little room at the gym. One woman who came last time couldn’t make it yesterday, but another one did. I was pretty tired right before that, but I arrived 10 minutes early along with my husband and just rolled around on the floor in the weirdest ways I could think of to get myself energized and excited to teach (my husband was on the bike laughing at the sound effects I made with my movements).

The two neighbors showed up ready to just go straight into savasana (corpse pose – the finish pose of yoga) and stay there for 1.5 hour. I made the decision to have them lie down on their backs in x’s to begin. I wanted them to do a few things to cross the mid line to wake up the body, but they mostly just laughed and looked at me like I was crazy for asking them to do that. I don’t think either of them has ever taken a dance class before and they felt uncomfortable. My bad. So, I switched back to what I originally had “planned (I don’t really plan, I just go there with an idea of something to work on). We did some easy yoga and after a little bit, one of them wanted to show what she had learned in a yoga class she took last week, which was a handstand pose (bakasana). So we switched direction in class again. Since I had done plenty of things to open up the body and warm up their backs and shoulders, I thought our bodies was warm enough and prepared for another handstand pose with the help of the wall. After this we did a few stretches before they finally got to relax in savasana.

I don’t know if they feel like they got anything out of last nights “class”. I’m gonna approach it a little bit different the next time. I gave them some freedom to change yesterday, but I now know more what it is that they want and the levels of all three ladies. But the woman who showed up last time has already improved on some things in her body which is awesome to see, so my teaching must have done something good:)