Topaz Lotus Living: Yoga
So, it’s 6:05 am on a Saturday morning and I worked all week and did the household things as well.
I’m into my yoga gear and just finished some mindful mediation and am preparing to leave for day 3/24 of hatha yoga teacher training at Open Door Yoga in Vancouver. Am I crazy to be taking yoga teacher training at my age, I wondered before I started the course. Well, I found out pretty quickly that the answer to this question was a resounding ‘no’, for no other reason than I am finally learning how to do the poses correctly and be in alignment with my body.
I came first to yoga at a very young age and then left my practice of yoga for many years, returning to it about 15 years ago. I remember my first ‘back to yoga’ class. It was in a big cold cold room with a bunch of women and we did sun salutations for an hour. The yoga instructor was an ‘older’ European lady with great technique, however, I just didn’t get it.
My next class was on a vacation in Hawaii and I just happened on a ‘power flow’ yoga class. I hadn’t learned enough to ask what kind of class it was. I survived the class, felt I had a workout and still didn’t ‘get yoga’. A few other yoga classes of various types followed and it was always an experience of an exercise class.
It was on another vacation, this time to Yelapa, Mexico, that I finally ‘got yoga’. I was in triangle, and my amazingly cool and wonderful teacher, Judith (from Sky Temple Yoga, you should go) came and did a slight adjustment, and made a suggestion for another slight adjustment I could do as well. I made the shifts and it was like my whole body sighed and went ‘ahhhhhhh, finally.’ That was the class where I ‘got yoga’.
I have been known to sign up for many things that I did not complete, or found excuses not to attend, mostly in the evening ‘exercise class’ realm. I love walking, running, working out on my own time, however, have balked at the structure and commitment of a program.
With my ‘yoga teacher training’ it is different, it feels like ‘the whole me’ wants to go, not just my intellect, not just my body, not just my spirit, but the ‘whole me’.
No, I’m not crazy, I guess, I am grateful and excited to spend another wonderful day, with wonderful people, getting to know my body better and getting to know them better!
So, do yoga! It’s good for your mind, body, heart and soul!
Here is the sign at the base of the hill path to walk to Sky Temple Yoga in Yelapa!
peace,
zoey
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