Sub-a-Dub-Dub


Wherein Our Heroine Opens to Grace
For someone who has been seeking for almost a year, being sought-after is a delicious novelty. The morning after I had substituted for my regular Yoga teacher, she called me and asked if I could sub again for her. Her small daughter had pinkeye and needed to see a doctor. So, I showered, changed and ran up to Germantown to teach a beginner class.

This week, I am teaching three classes for the woman who owns the studio where I study. Later this month, I am teaching four more classes for the Germantown studio. Since I cannot justify spending the money on the Yoga teacher-training class I had my eye on until I have regular, full-time income, the trust these other teachers have placed in me fills me with wonder.

The most wonder-full thing is that I have been offered the beginner's class at my home studio, starting in January. Not to sub, but to teach.

The foundation of Anusara Yoga (the style I study) is opening to, or flowing with Grace, explained thusly: "...It is a willingness to be aware of all parts of ourselves—the light and the dark, the full rainbow of sensation, perception, emotion, and thought. To be in the flow is to look at whatever arises with freshness and freedom. It is simply to open our hearts with love to the present moment without clinging or pushing. Anusara is accepting the world and ourselves as we are, and then responding with love."

The fact that these teachers believe me worthy to join their ranks helps to make that response possible.
Posted: Thursday - November 04, 2004 at 08:33 AM         | |

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