changes.

"she's going to be our next teacher. or maybe our next yoga champion."

a senior teacher said this about me during a workshop on saturday, as i was standing on the podium, demonstrating a pose for the class. i can't even remember which pose it was - he made me demonstrate so many of them: standing deep breathing, hands to feet, standing bow, cobra, full locust, fixed firm, camel, rabbit.  he'd never taught me before, and he didn't know about my plans and aspirations at that point. his help and his praise were so meaningful to me. it sounds so corny, but when he asked me up to the podium for the first time - my first time ever getting on the podium - i felt my life changing in that very instant.

i've taken a few bikram workshops, and they've all been great, but yesterday was so very special. everyone was working so very hard, everyone was cheering each other on in an atmosphere of hard work, love and support.

it all felt so very good: the yoga, the work, the support, the challenge, the appreciation. i was grinning half the time. in class lately i've sometimes wondered why i'm so keen on going to teacher training, when it feels like such a drag, but saturday's work felt so good, so right, that the thought of spending nine weeks doing this is already making me happy.

and then i networked with people from my studio and talked about training and that challenge i want to do in january, and damn: i feel so much closer to teacher training already. lucky me.