Things are starting to become a lot more real, and I'm loving our (not so little) yoga family. After we got Friday night off and the Saturday morning class was unexpectedly cancelled, we all got to enjoy a nice relaxing weekend. Sarah and I spent a lot of time at the beach, which was wonderful. I'd missed the ocean so much. Sarah had never been to the beach before and she was like a little fish out in the waves. It was really fun, and the water was so warm - unlike at home. Now it's time to get back to business. Week two has officially started and as Boss said in class tonight, "vacation's over". The energy in the room has been getting better and better the more people get to know one another. Sometimes all you need is to catch someone's eye or see someone smiling in the mirror and you remember we're all in this together.
I'm already learning so much about the yoga, about teaching, and about life. Last week I was pretty close to the podium during one of the classes Bikram taught, and he paid especially close attention to me. Before that I felt like he couldn't see me in that sea of 443 trainees, so it was kind of nice to get some one on one attention, but pretty terrifying at the same time. He got me to stretch further than I ever have before in the stretching pose near the end of class. "Touch your forehead!" he said, to someone I knew must have been in my vicinity. Sure enough, when I looked up and we made eye contact I knew he was talking to me. So I stretched my body forward and touched my forehead with my thumbs as my fingers grasped my toes for dear life. I just did it, and it seemed so easy. "See what you can do when you know what you're doing!?" was his response.
I think the most predominant thing I've learned here so far is that it doesn't matter what you do, or even how you do it, it's how you try. Trying the right way is the only way to make any progress - in yoga and in life in general.
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