The final week!

So I’m probably the last student to?complete the blog and?the Facebook posting. But do not think I’m the usual lazy Italian….! Nooooo!!! In this case it is not true!

I have decided to do it at the last minute as I would like to summarise my thoughts at the end of the course, more for myself than for the readers. This morning we were recalling the first week. How exhausted we were, how surprised by the intensity of the workout. One day, when doing the 5th series of abs or push ups, Paalu said “you won’t forget me”. For sure!?But not for the abs or the push ups! But those were important as much as the most of the things we did in these 6 weeks. And to give a further appreciation to the heavy work out I have to tell you what my hairdresser, a boy of course, told me last week: we were talking about fitness in general and yoga in particular and he said: oh that’s why you are so fit! I think nobody makes me happier than him in that moment. I went out with my back straight and a strong uddiana bhanda !
Then after the first 2 weeks we started?depending from those intense 2 hours of daily yoga and today, that we’re not practising every day, we are missing them very much.
And then arrived the theory behind the practise: why we do meditation, why we do pranayama, why we don’t have to jump asanas, or simply why when we breathe we keep the index and the thumb together. Then we added the teaching: what to say, how to behave in the class, what kind of adjustments to do. And plan a lesson. How fascinating it is: choose an asana and find out that there are many other asanas that really prepare you?in achieving it. Why nobody told me this before? Is that a secret of the profession?

Moreover why did I wait so much for doing this teacher training course? I did other things, many others as I’m not that young!, and I enjoyed them. And now it was the right time for doing the TTC. Everything has it’s perfect moment to be done.?Is not yoga teaching this??Thanks Paalu, thanks Wei Ling, thanks Kevin, thanks schoolmates! Maybe I won’t become a “special” teacher but I learnt a lot from all of you and enjoyed a lot.
Let’s then eat tiramisu’ on Friday!!!

Marina

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