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We're not dead!

First day strength

We have officially completed the fist day of Immersion Module 1. We're tired, we're hungry, and we're sore.

We did our 1 hour walk to the studio, and realized we were WAY early. In fact, we were 40 minutes earlier than 7:30am! (We woke up at 5am).  We were the first ones in the studio, yet, right behind us were some fellow teacher training yogis. It was intimidating, they were more beautiful, more toned, more decked out in Lululemon- and we were scared.

We started by sitting in a circle in the Moon Room. We quickly talked about some housekeeping stuff, and got into discussing What Does Yoga Mean To Me? (refer to blog 1- our homework assignment). M didn't speak, but S shared a really personal moment of how a life-changing seizure a year ago CHANGED his life (and M's). At about 10am, we started our Hatha Yoga practice.  It was 2 hours long, it was hard, but if felt good. It felt so good that M fell asleep during savasana and had to be awakened by S while just before coming out of savasana.

Drawing alignment lines

We had lunch on the grass outside the studio with our new yogi friends. The afternoon session was A-MA-ZING! We discussed the value of alignment. We talked about what feet hip-width distance apart really mean and look like. We got to draw on eachother, from the middle of your ankle bone a direct line to the knuckle of your second toe. We also talked about correct alignment in downward facing dog; a straight line from the middle of your wrist to the space between your index and middle finger- that was mindblowing!

We also discussed the value of tadasana. How our job as teachers is to bring students to an asana, and make them feel like they're in tadasana; fully grounded, fully present, fully strong.  We had to pair up and practice getting into tadasana with another partner, and actually feel and see the instructions of getting into tadasana.

We concluded with basic anatomy; connective tissue (bones, cartilage, lymph, blood, fat, tendons, ligaments and fascia)

This is our homework for tonight:
Review Seat of the Teacher pgs 1-8
Read Tadasana in the asana section pgs 13-15
Read Ray Long's Book Key Muscles of Yoga pgs 10-18;22
Anatomy Colouring Book pgs 21-22
Write your own Tadasana script

All the while eating dinner, taking a bath, watching tv, fbooking....

Stay grounded,

S and M

trouble posting video, will post soon!