I began my 200 hour Certified Yoga Teacher Training journey in June of 2019. Considering the events and circumstances of 2020, it seems like it was not only a different time, but a different world. It was a world where yogi students could gather together to learn their craft. We engaged our bodies and brains for all of the waking hours of those early summer days, huddling our sweaty bodies together in thoughtfully zen-decorated intimate and window-clad spacious indoor spaces to move and meditate on a shared breath.
Just a mere 10 months later, we would be coming together from our make-shift home yoga spaces over Zoom. Each of us, once a brilliant body of energy was now just a tiny square on a screen. It was our unsaid promise to engage at the same impassioned level and continue to experience each other and the insights we were learning that created the true emotions we sent and felt through the internet.
To say the 200 hours of my training was transformative, seems cliche. But, it is the best word that truly describes the physical and emotional journey that began in a world that exists now, only in my memory. I am super proud of this accomplishment and feel like I have been stretched to my edge in so many ways that today I will rest and tomorrow I will begin to plan my own daily home yoga and meditation practices. I also plan to do what I can to help keep my small world healthy and equitable for everyone. The venue and the teacher has changed, but the work will continue. I am ready to share my experiences with you and hope that our shared, over the internet, experiences will be as fulfilling and transformative as the training has been for me.
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