Confessions of a Yoga Instructor

So, I keep hearing that if I want to have a blog it needs to be me being 'real'. I have been trying to figure out what might be interesting to others that may know me. I am pretty much a home body when I am not traveling the world so was not sure where to go with this. Then it dawned on me, the reason I teach Yoga is because I learn so much about Yoga from seeing and hearing what others are going through. So I decided I would try to blog about my experiences, good and challenging as a Yoga Instructor.

So starting today, without being to specific or naming names, I am going to share little insights of the Yoga classes I instruct on a daily or weekly basis, what I see from my perspective from all four corners of the room. As my friends can tell, not much slips past me.

First a little background. I had studied meditation with Diane Ross in Orlando after a tragedy in my life as a coping mechanism for many years. I knew the benefits of getting still. After leaving L.A., I reevaluated my life to find something I could do in relation to my passions, art, theatre, and fitness that would help others and that I could make a living at. That led me to Personal Training. Being a Gemini, I knew I wanted something else to go along with training or I would get bored and a friend in Kansas of all places, suggested Yoga. The very first class blew me away. Even though it was a 'gym' Yoga class I instantly went into meditation while moving and before I knew it I had completed crazy postures I never thought I could do and the class was over. I was hooked. Turns out there was a teacher training coming to Whichita, I went and loved the technical aspects of the postures. I got absorbed in the technical and forgot about my meditative experience until years later in my first Hot Yoga class. I hated it, it was 'hell' Yoga in Key West and swore I would never do it, but secretly knew that I had had to meditate to get through it and was again hooked. I became obsessed with Hot Yoga and thought about being a Hot Yoga instructor and dreamed of owning my own hot Yoga studio. I know that the discipline and mental focous I learned from hot Yoga is what got me though my marathons But the further I got into Hot Yoga, the more I realized that it is pretty much devoid of the deeper, meditative side of Yoga and the marriage of the two is what I seek.

So I started to look for a 'real' Yogi. Through many trials and many Western teachers I deducted that I wanted to find an 'original' Yogi from India and learn the real deal…………..