Extensions started today. The Extensions Program is CorePower Yoga’s 4-week training that takes the next step in preparing to be a yoga teacher or furthering the practice of an existing teacher. It’s where I’ll learn things like theming a class, building a playlist, more in-depth practice teaching, hands-on adjustments, and becoming more confident in my ability to teach.
Sunday afternoon’s intro class was a great way to set intentions, talk about specific things we want to learn and focus on, and get to know the other six yogis and our instructor (who’s been one of my Boulder favorites all summer/fall) as we enter this satsang.
Review
I graduated from CPY’s 200-hour, 8-week Power Yoga Teacher Training almost a year ago to the date — November 15, 2009. In the past week or so, I’ve been reviewing my class notes, journal entries, and study materials from that training. It’s awesome to remember the space I was in a year ago, the revelations I was having in class, and the dedication and devotion that grew out of that experience to my own yoga practice.
Teacher training started on September 23 last fall, and in reading some of my notes from class on the 30th, I ran across a passage from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali that struck me even stronger tonight than it did when I first read it. As I re-read it again tonight and considered where my mind and heart are right now, I realized: this is how I want to live my life.
To preserve the innate serenity of the mind, the yogi should be happy for those who are happy, compassionate towards those who are unhappy, delighted towards the virtuous, and indifferent towards the wicked.
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Beautiful! So proud of you
I hope it is fulfilling and full of experiences and even more growth. xoxo
Thanks, GB!
I LOVE this. Happy for those who are happy would get rid of a lot of envy.
What a beautiful quote. So much easier said than done though.
I think my favorite part is "indifferent towards the wicked"… because sometimes it's so much easier to let your disapproval or discontent turn into hatred, and then to let your hatred consume you, when the problem was never even yours to be concerned with in the first place.
That was my favorite part too and I couldn't quite articulate why. You just did that, thank you!
As some one who has the flexibility of a well starched shirt, yoga is an interesting challenge to me
Hidden dangers of Yoga.
I have managed to keep up my yoga attendance for almost three years though, so it can’t all be bad.
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