Today we discussed in class all about Astanga: the eight limbs of Raja Yoga. I have to say it is very confusing - I hope I can get it all in my brain before exam time. Last night I stayed up till 1:30am working on my book with the poses for what we have done so far in Allaine's course. Wow I am super tired today so I want to go to bed earlier. They say you can't catch up on sleep - you either get it our you don't - well today when I started my practise in hot yoga this morning I defiantly left that I didn't get enough sleep and have felt that way all day so best to take better care tonight.
So much still to get done and I only have three weeks to get into all done in. I can do it though. Just need to be sure to take care of myself with fresh clean diet and of course the right amount of sleep a night!
Went to a farmers market Ellen took me too in a part of Miami way far driving from here but OMG worth it. I have more veggies then I will ever know what to do with lol :P and for prices WAY better then whole foods...but I do love whole foods and fresh markets too! I wish I could pack one up and take it with me back to Nevis. There is no trader joes in Miami but that place BY FAR is a gift from the gods! I tell yeah I LOVE trader joes!
But back to yoga. Fred quote I liked today "there is a difference between walling fast and being in a hurry". Orher great ones from our classes are "no one pose is yoga" "a masters open heart shows more for their compassion then all the knowledge of the third eye" (supreme knowledge dones not equal enlightenment without an equal understanding of compassion).
Getting stronger in forehand stand. Goal before I go is to get up in it and stay there for 20seconds. I can do it. Right now away from the wall on my own I could hold it for about 3 seconds but I did need the wall to get into the position at first with my jump. I love that pose!
I am also working on my opening mediation to start my classes. Fred gave us what to say but I think I would like to use that as an outline to reference and pull from other sources to make it my own. Read a great quote on a friends face book page today by John Lennon and I would like to incorporate that too. I feel, for me, that while the history of yoga is of course paramount I would like my teaching to be a hybrid of new world influence but our modern day visionaries along with those rules of the Four Paths of Yoga and the great ones such as Swami Ramakrishnananda, B.K.S. Iyengar, Baron Baptiste ext. My path or goal in this is to be able to make yoga accessible spiritually to all levels and clients I will be working with. My studies here are in depth, as they should be and Fred is right to have us as teachers we educated in all these yoga foundered and masters. Nevertheless, for many, including my guy - they are more interested in the "down to earth" approach at first in yoga. Of course in time spiritual awareness increases but I very much enjoy instructors like Pablo who incorporate modern music into their series and as brilliant and skilled but casual and inviting. So I need to get that "feel" into my opening meditation.
In the morning I am going to be teaching the sequence to Ellen which will be awesome. Need to remember to tell her to breath lol - yoga is after all, nothing without the breath.
Sweet dreams everyone!
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