The purpose of this blog is to help to discover and explore the world of yoga as it exists today. I am hoping to someday soon become a yoga teacher and feel that studying the approaches and methods of different teachers and studios over the next several months will help me to understand more fully what kind of teacher I might like to be to bring something to this world and community.
Further, I always feel that when I go to try a new class or studio, I would love to read something to help to know what is the best fit for what I am seeking. I love the process of exploration and discovery, but sometimes it is helpful to have a sense of what will be an optimal fit for that particular day or time.
This blog is named for a passage that really resonated with me from Erich Shiffman's, "Moving Into Stillness." I realized that the pursuit of yoga and teaching is something that has long been in my dreams. However, I keep putting other things first and I find myself getting in the way of my own interest in yoga - an extension of my own fear impeding my pursuits. I would like this blog to be a way that I set an intention and focus, in order to really see this dream become a reality. I recently had the fortune of taking a class from Erich and he said, "pause" in order to really accept that which is happening in the moment and that which is around you. I feel that when I am writing this blog, it will be my opportunity to do just that. By experiencing the class on two levels and sharing the experience, I hope it will help me to be present and focus on the enjoyment I am getting from yoga and the people in my life.
I hope that the information here is helpful to you. Please share your perspectives, as I want this to be a community experience and I invite flow of information to exist in this space, as I feel it will only enrich and inform this endeavor.
I would like to dedicate this to my mom, who did yoga at 5 am as taught by a PBS program, "Lilias! Yoga and You." Her patience was astounding, given that was probably her only pure time of the day, but she let me be there anyway...a 4 year old trying to do downward facing dog...I think that's where this all began. Namaste!
