a godsend and the soapbox (yes, *that* soapbox)

Firstly, proceed immediately to your local/virtual purveyor of books and purchase Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques, by Mark Stephens. You need this book, and you need it now. Why, you ask? Well, you see, it has The Goods; it's what our asana lab sheets would read like in our wildest 200 hr training dreams. Nearly 100 pages go over how to instruct each individual asana + the transitions to & from, 30+ pages on sequencing & sequences, a huge appendix listing the prep, supporting, & counter poses for every asana, and that's just the highlights. It goes into all the other important stuff, too, of course; depth is the key word here. I reckon many of us have been craving a little more of that.



That said.. I need input, please. I finally checked out (three months too late) the Yoga Alliance's standards for the 200 hour certification. Page 1 of this curriculum approval paperwork futher explains what can & cannot qualify as contact or non-contact hours.

Two concerns/talking points and I'll leave it:
1) To be fair, I'm bad with math, but, according to the standards (i.e. lunch breaks & the studio yoga classes on Sat. & Sun. don't count).. our contact hours come up short.
2) The Practicum category. Minimum 5 contact hours spent actively teaching, in the presence of Robin or Teresa. When.. how?

I'm sorry that this is all I ever talk about, especially sorry that this is the only side of me some of you ever see. :(

Have a great weekend, loves,
Heather

Just a little light reading. . .

I just thought that I would share this article with all of you, especially after the weekend we all had.

http://www.yogajournal.com/wisdom/2547?utm_source=Wisdom&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=Wisdom

xoxoxo
Jess

So as I came home today I found this little card that Steven gave to me, that I believe his father gave to him. Its funny how things just appear when you need them to, the card reads like this:

Attitude

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It will make or break a company...a church...a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.

We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you...We are in charge of our Attitude.

Charles Swindoll

Im working on it. . .thanks to all of you for being there for me, not judging me, Im trying to let it go, and you amazing women make me feel that I am safe and can let down that wall of anger and fear.

Love ya's!!!

Om Shanti