What if no one comes to class?
What if no one likes my teaching?
What if I mess up the flow?
What if what if what if??????
I can turn it around too:
What if there's a waiting list because my class is so popular?
What if I make a killer playlist?
What if everything flows perfectly?
It's a matter of perspective.
I will be teaching "plus size" yoga, although any size person is welcome. It's a class designed to teach body confidence and acceptance. I know in my personal experience, when you are larger you have a terrific disconnect from your body. Yoga attempts to restore that connection. When you are disconnected, you begin to mistake one thing for another, which is a disservice to everyone.
For example-hunger. I know when I'm disconnected, I am constantly hungry. I'm not physically hungry, but I feel like I am. It's an emotional hunger more than anything else. I am craving something else and substitute food for it.
Many times dehydration plays a big part of it. I don't drink enough water most of the time, which can cause me to mistake hunger for thirst. Being disconnected allows for this misperception.
Yoga helps to restore that connection. When you practice yoga, you have to intertwine mind, body, breath to move.
I credit yoga for my personal success. The discipline that it has taught me to be consistent. To listen not for the thunder and lightening, but the still small voice on the gentle breeze:
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a a still small voice.
1kings 19:11-12
Lovely post! Sending you loads of good wishes for your class!
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