Another weekend of amazing yoga. We all taught a pose or so for a “class” on Saturday. I haven’t been sure that this would be something I would ever want to do. What I discovered is that even though my instructions felt awkward and I often had to visually look at the part of the body that I needed to talk about in order to come up with its “name,” I really enjoyed the opportunity to get out of my head in practice and verbalize what was being explored. Too bad there wasn’t time to lead my first independent group chant of OM!!!
We also took several poses to explore with the help of our fellow trainees. Three people would create the pose, we were asked to see where our eyes were “drawn” and then we were given an opportunity to comment on each person’s pose. We are learning that each pose has it’s own expression in each person’s body. The ideal cannot exist but instead we each must take our own body construction and try to follow the instructions (in our head or given by teacher) as our body makes the interpretation. There are obviously dangerous errors in interpretation that must be fixed, incomplete or out of balance creations that can be enhanced with instruction and today’s interpretation that reflects the body with it’s unique structure, alignment abilities and energy that does NOT need to be “fixed” except through self awareness of the pose. The challenge as the teacher will be to know where the student’s posture is on any given day… in need of correction or in the full expression for that day.
