Today I started my journey to become an accredited Yoga teacher (or facilitator is probably a better term, given what we learned today) – to say that I’ve been thrown in the deep end is an understatement – BUT personal growth is fertilized by a bit of chaos, right?
There were three things that stood out for me today -
- Pranayama – “the breath” and the practice of breathing. When you’re breathing great big life inducing belly breaths, it’s almost impossible to retain negative feelings.
- “being present” – allowing myself to be still in the moment without any judgment (ie ‘does my technique suck’?) and to present an open and curious mind.
- Yoga philosophy lecture – discussed the concepts of non-duality and quantum physics which were mind bending, but also pretty interesting.
What about you – have you got three key things that you’re learning about today, fitness related or not – I’d love to hear them!
More tomorrow!
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1. Wear shoes indoors. At all times.
2. Just when you’re smugly congratulating yourself on your awesome progress, you will discover that pride really does come before a fall.
3. Little toes are the most uselessly fragile appendage EVER.
My lessons today were not so good. On the other hand, there is a day off work in my cards….
Hope the course is worth the long hours. And not too new-agey.
I’m so sorry about your foot!
Glad you enjoyed it! How long does it actually take to become a yoga instructor?
What I learned yesterday… was that some habits take longer to change than 21 days!
200 hours! For step one
Yes, I know about those habits all too well xx
1. The steel industry.
2. How to journalise equipment purchases, depreciation, revaluations, equipment sales and calculate profit or loss on the sale of the equipment (yawn!!)
3. That Clipsal traffic CAN be negotiated without losing one’s sanity.
I’m sure you really loved hearing that LOL.
I thought Clipsal was a suburb, but I’ve been informed by hubby what the Clipsal 500 is
I’m doing alot of reading on carbohydrates and how they trigger insulin response. Plus alot of things health related. Interesting stuff.
Have a look at glycaemic load. Very rarely does one macronutrient work alone