April 21, 2021

We don’t do yoga to get “better” at yoga, we do yoga to get better at life!

Real talk, I teach yoga a lot now. Well, a lot for me. At least 7-8x per week and in the meantime, I have a few other (exciting!) jobs as well. Also real talk- I still sometimes feel like an imposter. I feel like an imposter in my yoga teaching and even sometimes when I’m writing.

The thing I own and know and can claim? Where I don’t feel like an imposter? My love and knowledge of Italy as a country and as a travel destination. That confidence comes from 10+ years in the tour industry. I guess that’s the thing about becoming an ‘expert’. There’s all this blood, sweat and tears that you’ve dedicated- an endless learning curve. I know Rome because I’ve given everything to learning it. I’ve put in those mythical 10,000 hours that @malcolmgladwell talks about.

Back to yoga- who am I to sequence, to direct, to teach other people? Who am I to observe and correct and analyze? I’m just a student too. But that’s the thing- I’m not just teaching yoga so you get more flexible. I’m not just teaching it so you have a physical experience in your body. My desire is that you have an experience inside yourself too. I’m not teaching just so you learn the physical practice of yoga, I’m teaching with the hope that you can apply what you absorb to the rest of your life. Again, for me: I don’t do the yoga (just) to get ‘better’ at yoga, I do it to get ‘better’ at life.

We’re all students. We’re all learning. In fact, we’re all learning so much, so quickly these days. Let’s have patience and slowly, slowly watch as the seeds we plant now blossom into flowers (I mean I had to put in a good spring metaphor, right?)