Okay –so it’s time for an update. Well, the game has definitely changed around here over the past two weeks. I kinda feel like I’ve been bitch slapped. But, I had to have known that it was going all too well. Bikram came back at the beginning of last week and our nights of going to bed by 11:30pm were long gone.

Week 5 turned out to be so much more difficult than I had anticipated. Many others also seem to hit a wall and were struggling. Emotions of all sorts were running high. I wasn’t really upset but just felt a bit daunted by each day. It was a hard week but when it was all said and done it still went by very quickly. Week 6 turned out to not be nearly as challenging as I had expected it to be, and it passed very quickly. I guess it’s another example of learning to let go of expectations.

The pace of posture clinic has really picked up and we are on Bow pose now, which is pretty close to the end of the class for those of you who aren’t familiar with the practice. I am still doing well with the dialogue but I did have my first dialogue block since training started. I was delivering Locust pose and I totally forgot the dialogue. I actually paused long enough that the evaluators had to tell me to keep going. Arrrgghhh……I was frustrated afterwards cause I had been doing so well in posture clinic and I didn’t handle the block very well. If we blank out we are suppose to just figure out a way to keep going cause if that were to happen in class you have to fake it til you make so that your students have no idea. Today was a better day for posture clinic – I delivered Full Locust and afterwards was told that I could teach today, which is good since I will really be teaching in 3 weeks. Holy crap! It’s all really happening.

On that note – I am on the teaching schedule to teach the morning after I get home. Just knowing this is really motivating me to work hard on the dialogue. Not only learning it verbatim but really learning how to deliver it in a way that motivates and inspires students. It is a learning process that will go on as long as I teach but even now it is important to take the first step beyond just regurgitating words that we have memorized.

Okay – enough of that. I’m boring you. But, that’s a given cause who really is interested in reading about yoga unless you are a yogi. As for the hot room – weeks 3 and 4 were reasonable as far the temperature went. There were a couple of classes that even felt cold. Weeks 5 and 6 were more humid, which generally means more challenging. I like it a little hot so I can’t complain. My struggles in the room have mostly had to do with my own physical abilities. As I wrote in the last post – my body is feeling sore. Now, 6 weeks later it is feeling really sore. As long as you try the right way you will get 100 percent of the benefits so that’s what I am trying to do.

We had a pizza party tonight to celebrate 6 weeks at camp, as well as Halloween. There was SOOO much pizza it was crazy. Music was played, everyone danced and then we were told that we had the rest of the night off, which is huge right now! Yay!

Okay – to be honest, I am not feeling as peppy and optimistic as I was a couple of weeks ago but it is still all good. This too shall pass and I will be back to myself before I know it. Nothing that some yoga can’t take care of :)

On a whole other note – I have a new niece, Serafina. I will meet her when I return home. It is a challenge to stay present here at training when you know so much is going on at home. I will be living in Sidney when I go back so I will be living closer to my family than I have in over a decade. Pretty cool that we will all be able to spend lots of time together. My nephew, Sam, is the coolest kid ever and I’m sure that he will rub off his new baby sister.

Hope everyone is well. 3 more weeks…..whoot whoot.