Love Teaching, dearly

I taught my first official yoga class, well part of it anyway....at the studio tonight.

I feel more confident teaching yoga than I do in any other aspect of my life...

If I could teach 5 classes everyday, I would. There is nothing more satisfying.

I felt the energy of everyone in the room tonight---and the respect that the students payed me was very powerful...it filled me with warmth.

I can't wait to start teaching there for real. Tonight, I subbed for the first 20 minutes because the teacher was running late.

When she walked in the room and saw that everyone was in child's pose, she was confused---but then saw that I was subbing and was ok with it...I admit, it did feel a bit awkward subbing for an established teacher when she didn't know it would be happening---o well, i stood my ground i guess.

Yoga is everything. It's the way I breathe, my confidence, how I walk, the way I approach school----it is a life force for me and I am thankful that it has such a big place in my life.

I'm aware of how much I talk about yoga among friends, and sometimes I'm sure it gets old, but I can't help it. It's huge for me...I can't ignore the power it has.

I bought a book entitled Yoga and Depression for a project I am doing in my field practice class in school. The prompt was to essentially do a book review of work dealing with creativity in social work. I chose yoga therapy, because that's what I want to do. I haven't started reading it yet, but hopefully I'll learn something important from it.

That's all for now.

Namaste