Sita Sings the Blues

I watched this film months ago.

It is a great parody on a serious story/legend/history. It is told creatively and realistically as one person wrote on youtube, "If someone stops on the street and asks you to narrate the Ramayana, this'll happen."

I hope you all enjoy just as much as I have.

This is an open source project by questioncoyright.org, so please donate and support their projects and this film.

Check out the film's site at http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/

The enlightening of our spirits (at least the pots are stirring)

So people have been wondering what my first two weekends of Teacher Training have been like.

Well, they have been the most amazing and intense experiences that could be imagined!  The best way to describe these weekends with my 23 other comrades is that they are these mini weekend therapy retreats.  You enter into the room Saturday morning look around, help set up and just settle.  Immediately you know when you see everyone's faces that it is safe; everything you have been reading, thinking about, practicing is worth it.  That devoting yourself to the now is so important and worth more then anything.

That is what it is like.

Yoga Teacher Training is about growth, it is a growth into the beautiful guiding being that will inspire others to want to dig inside and find their own beauty. (and maybe practice some yoga too!)

I can only say that if you are ready to find out more about yoga, to find out how everything in our lives tie together then do it. Anyone can do yoga, but I don't think anyone can anticipate the magnitude that teacher training has to offer.  It really is a beautiful thing!

That is the best way I think that I can sum up the four days that I have had in my program, and things are shifting.  I can not be more grateful for the two week breaks between weekends, it really allows me the time to process and implement what I have been inspired with into my life.

Hari Om

Getting ready for first day

Over the last few days I have received various emails regarding the first day.
One about our first day schedule, one about what to bring, one welcoming us to the program...

Each one helpful for my preparation, but each also helping build my excitement (mixed in with my nervousness!).

I'm just about to go to sleep but I thought I should share about how I have already packed my bag, picked my outfit, made my lunch, gotten snacks; I am leaving nothing for chance!

It reminds me of when I was in primary school and I was actually excited about going to school on the first day, of course, then it would have been my parents getting everything ready for me.

Well my fingers are crossed and my eyes are wide open!

Here is a glimpse of what my first is going to look like...how can anyone complain about this schedule:

8:30-10:30- Meet and Greet
10:30-10:45- Break
10:45-12:30- Yoga Class
12:30-1:30- Lunch
1:30-3:30- Course Overview
3:30-4:00- Tea Time
4:00-5:00- Games
5:00-6:00- Asana & Meditation

Namaste

Books for School

My new books quite literally just arrived, and I am so excited!  Who ever thought that School textbooks could ever be so exciting and not frightening! (well maybe with the exception of the anatomy books...)

I always love new books, but I always have to resist because the excitement of owning them usually wanes. So if I get too many at once they usually begin to collect dust before I have have properly enjoyed them.  Hence my yoga library is very small.  With the internet I can usually find what I need in the moment, but as with most other subjects books are so much richer for their information and the love that was poured into their creation.

The 5 books I had ordered are for my yoga teacher training that starts next week.  the books are:

1. Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student relationship by Donna Farhi
2. Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff
3. Ayurveda, The Science of Self Healing by Dr. Vasant Lad
4. Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit: A return to Wholeness by Donna Farhi
5. The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit and Lawrence M. Elson

I have every intention of reviewing all five of them as I read them and we integrate them into learning during the next 6 months (hopefully it won't take me 6 months to build an opinion)

All I have left to get and find is a yoga blanket...

I got in!!!

Yipee!

I got into my preferred program for the Yoga Teacher Training Program!
I found out last week, about 5 days after I sent my application.  I had a feeling that it might be that simple as well fast for acceptances.  But I still couldn't help but be nervous about it all.

Just over a week to go and all my remaining curiosities will be answered.

The Langara 250hr YA TTP is set over six months; starting in September and ending in February.  There are two components to the programming.  There is the core program, which is essentially every other weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, each day is 9.5 hrs long including your hour lunch. The second part is the Yoga Series which is an hour and a half every week and 12 weeks long, the first six set in September and October and the rest in January and February.

I am really excited to find out what this class means since the program hardly even mentions the yoga series.  This is the clearest description on it: "...for students to integrate and practice learned techniques and methodologies with peers." Based on this, I'm thinking that it will be a place for us to both practice yoga (take an average studio class) and as we learn to teach, it will become a safe place to teach to our peers.

I think one of my biggest fears at the moment is that we will get to the end of the program and I will not have taught any classes at all, so when I do get to the front of a class, it will still feel foreign and frightening!  I know this fear is not reasonable and one of the reason I opted for this program was that it seemed honorary as both a school and a program and it will live up to the expectations I have put on the table.

Tomorrow I will list the books that I have purchased for the program.  They should (fingers crossed!) arrive by friday or early next week. and as I read them I will be sure to review them.

I am SOOOO excited!

~peace and acceptance