Become a certified Yoga instructor.

I need goals! This is great. Yoga is possibly one of the only things I naturally feel born to do. From here on out, I move towards the goal!

I’ve been researching the certified schools and their programs. Without the luxury of time to experience them all, it is difficult to choose. I am leaning toward a Sivananda school, though Kripalu and Anusara interest me as well. I haven’t set a date in my mind yet. Stay tuned!

I figured it was high time to scribe an entry for this long-awaited goal…

Wouldn’t I, a nimbly, bimbly girl of college-age, want nothing more than to teach yogahhh ? Well…maybe. But how freeing this practice is. I’d love to devote a lot of my time to teaching everyone the poses and mediation of this ancient practice.

Anyone who knows me has seen me break out into a pose whenever my back starts to ache, or sink into the Lotus position to meditate whenever I get a mind’s peace.

I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t devote this to a full-time career, but maybe something one the side, like Paul’s co-worker Pam, who teaches a half-hour class on her lunch. I think I’d like to be certified, just to be certified, so I can open myself up to new job opportunities and personal experiences.

I have been doing yoga at home for years but have decided that I will start taking regular classes with a quality teacher so that I can improve my practice and if I want to in two years (the req. for BWY) go for the teaching cert.

I am tempted to go to India and train there but I know it won’t really be recognised here, but it will be good practice and a holiday of sorts also, for a reasonable price.

Yoga has given me so much. I have accepted my body as the strong amazing thing it is. Even though I am a “plus sized” woman, I can do amazing things and I would love to help other women learn to love themselves and find their strength within.

I’m working on it now.

I was born to bend, made to meditate.

This will be when I can have more energy and time to be dedicated to one thing.

all along i thought this was mine.
i thought that i wanted this.
but lo and behold, i think this belongs to someone else
or maybe it’s just not now.
when i struggle to get to my practice everyday and have no desire to do so…i have to start re-thinking whether this is really what i want…

i’m letting it go and if it comes back to me, then it is truly mine.

Well I have turned in my application to begin the 9 month certification through the Yoga Den.

I now have to call back the instructor and talk with her even though at the moment I don’t have any questions.

Besides that, I just need to wait till the classes begin in late August and come up with the deposit and work on my finances so I can afford the 5 payments for the class.