Trainee Teacher
My turn to teach the class
Today marks the day in my yoga teacher training where I’m officially allowed to teach classes as a trainee yoga teacher. The course isn’t done yet, we don’t finish till December but this is a big milestone and I’m really happy about it. If anything the only negative I can find (something I find it useful to do when balancing experiences) is that it feels a bit weird. It made me very aware that Ive literally never passed anything officially academic. I failed all my GCSE’s as a child and promptly quit school before I could get anywhere near A levels. I never went on to higher education and never revisited… well anything academic. Ever.
Its made part of me sad, sad that it’s taken me till 38 years old to remedy that. I'm defiantly guilty of thinking there is nothing I can’t learn from books and I’m sure I’m right to an extent. But this course has been a liberating experience when it comes to my relationship with academia. You don’t just have to learn form books. I have learn a huge amount form SJ, she’s brilliant, but to my knowledge she’s never written a book. That to me means that there is a vast expanse of knowledge, wisdom and information that is never committed to paper. I feel a bit like I discovered a new continent and now I get to go exploring. That’s really cool.
So, I'm allowed to teach people yoga as a trainee now. Look at me. Clever boy. Cookie for tom. Pat on the head.
What was important today was the people I'm doing my course with. They were all SO good! Honestly, it felt like doing 3 totally different classes one after another. All of them I could switch off and just enjoy the class. Julia did this mad Drew yoga thing that I’ve never experienced, there was energy scooping and crazy bird bomb dives. Emma had really nice music and her vibes were on point and she kept us in poses for a nice long time, very relaxing. Sophie is super nervous in general, and it just didn’t show on the mat at all, she had hyper organised with her coloured notes, and saw us though her flow really well. Everyone bar none got cleared for trainee teaching twice a week.
We all missed Anna and Emma, but honestly, I'm kinda glad they couldn’t make it. Four sessions in a row was quite enough and it means that next session we get to have Anna and Emma’s classes before we start. Which I'm sure it’ll be great, they’re both brilliant.
What about mine? So I'm more than happy to say it went great. I was not worried about doing it, I love leading a group though practice and was very happy for some precise feedback from SJ. I sat down, put on my best sexy-time vibey yoga playlist and we moved together. I felt privileged to go last, it felt like I got to see everyone out and congratulate them on a job so well done. We laughed and sweated and frankly, fucking smashed it. The lot of us.
Here's to the Moonstone teacher training class of 25. We’re getting there. You should be as proud of yourselves as I am of you all.
Cheers x