On the 25th of June 2017 I spent a nerve-wracking 6 hours taking my Introductory
Assessment. Three days later I found out that all the hard work, stress and focus had been worth it, as I had passed and was officially an Iyengar yoga teacher.
You get by with a help from your friends
Iโve had loads of support. My husband has had to step into the bedtime breach two evenings a week, as I head out the door to teach my evening classes. He never complains, in fact, he makes a point of asking how the lesson went when
I come home and root about for a snack.
The little group of โguinea pigsโ that I taught during my training have stuck with me through thick and thin. They
committed wholeheartedly to being my loyal test students, and then, when I passed, insisted that the class carry on, with the difference being that they now paid me. Theyโve been my students for nearly three years now, and I truly feel that we evolve together.
Grateful for the Good Bits
Itโs easy to focus on the negative. But, as Mr Iyengar says: โCultivate the positive, abjure the negative.โ Iโve also had teaching successes and some really excellent good bits.
Iโve arrived on time to every lesson Iโve had to teach this year, bar one. Iโve successfully started a new class, which now has a steady core of students.
Iโve taken a student up into headstand for the first time. Iโve seen my students progress and improve, both physically and mentally. Iโve got to the end of the class and felt the peace and stillness in the room during savasana, and been deeply grateful.
Any yoga teacher will tell you that you know when youโve taught a good class. Thereโs a sense of intense satisfaction and fulfilment, shared between you and your students. Youโve worked them hard, and theyโve worked hard themselves into the bargain.