Wow, I feel like I have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro this week, this was really a struggle this week (do I write this about every week :-) ). It felt like a life time and generally had low energy....but picked up a little yesterday and today. Well Armond has just called me to say he arrived safely in Mexico City - I cannot believe that I am going to see my dear husband again tonight, after 8 weeks apart. I'm so happy to finally see him again and be together. Altough it will also be a little strange, as he will be entering my yoga life bubble here.....and at the same time I woke up this morning realizing that this training is going to be over in a couple of days and this scared me and kind of.....am I ready to face the world out there again?? This training has been so intensive it really shifts something inside you. But I'm just acknowledge these feelings and they are quite normal as I've spoken to some of the of the other sutdents and they have similar thoughts. There is a very strong bond between most of the 280 students. We all take each other for face value. Very special.
Anyway, tonight we have the talent show - 26 acts will be presented. There are many students who are actors, singers, performers, dancers etc. so they have been practising for the past 2 weeks to present tonight. I'm very excited and no doubt there will be tears and laughter. People are generally speaking pretty emotional at this stage and it does not take a lot to get the tears going!!
Bikram has sponsered us pizza so I'm about to go down for dinner.
5 more days TRAINING. I can't believe it!!
Lots of love and bye for now ( I think Armond might make the next entry!)
Katherine, almost a Bikram Yoga Teacher!!!
Friday, 30 May 2008
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Tuesday evening - Week 8
....was sitting in the Savasana after Yoga class (relaxing, dead body bose asana), sweat dripping all over my body, the towel absolutely drenched in sweat, listening to another of Bikram's songs and was looking around the room (not part of Savasana!) thinking this is not going to last much longer and was looking over the the other side of the room where I started my first class nearly 9 weeks ago. How far I have come since that day - physically and emotionally, that is pretty amazing.
This was has so far been mixed, finished the official posture clinic which is great and have now started the moc classes which are more informal and give us a chance to practice. But I would wish that we would get a little more compassion from the teachers at this stage or a little 'goodie' once in a while, espcially as we are 4 days ahead in finishing our posture clinic....so am a little disappointed - was really excited about week 8 and about feeling amazing and full of energy and adrenalin, but that has not kicked-in, yet.
My body has started to ache at most places possible and altough the evening classes are still relatively strong I am slowly reaching my limit of doing 3 hours Yoga a day...I think my body is really longing for a break!
Well, I'm using my spare time right now to practice the dialogue with some of the group 10 people, I want to make the most out of my time here in preparing for coming back to England to teach (the thought thrills me with excitment!!!!!)
About to have a in room dining Burger with Anna before we start practicing.
Another evening lecture but at least right now I get 6 hours of sleep the last two days which is great!
Love,
Katherine
This was has so far been mixed, finished the official posture clinic which is great and have now started the moc classes which are more informal and give us a chance to practice. But I would wish that we would get a little more compassion from the teachers at this stage or a little 'goodie' once in a while, espcially as we are 4 days ahead in finishing our posture clinic....so am a little disappointed - was really excited about week 8 and about feeling amazing and full of energy and adrenalin, but that has not kicked-in, yet.
My body has started to ache at most places possible and altough the evening classes are still relatively strong I am slowly reaching my limit of doing 3 hours Yoga a day...I think my body is really longing for a break!
Well, I'm using my spare time right now to practice the dialogue with some of the group 10 people, I want to make the most out of my time here in preparing for coming back to England to teach (the thought thrills me with excitment!!!!!)
About to have a in room dining Burger with Anna before we start practicing.
Another evening lecture but at least right now I get 6 hours of sleep the last two days which is great!
Love,
Katherine
Sunday, 25 May 2008
final photos for now...
I know, not the best photos but the girl you see is this years Yoga Championship Winner, Alicia. She is also a Bikram Teacher. This was a special press conference demo we had in the lobby of the hotel for the Mexican press and tv re Bikram doing his Teacher Training here in Acapulco. The demonstrators were all senior Teachers, and Alicia. So no, not us the students, I think we need a couple of years until our postures look like that. At least for most of us.
YIPEEEEEE week 8 is about to start and I'm ready, lets have some rocking Yoga classes and let me rock out that final posture, the Spine Twist, with confidence and strength.
And next Friday my dear husband is arriving, we also will have a talent show on that night - so many people here have special talents, are actors, musicians, dancers etc.
Well, I don't have that special talent...so will watch with enjoyment and pleasure what my fellow yogis and yoginis have to show!
Lots of love and see many of you very soon again,
K
Week 7 - more photos....
The top left is the view from my bedroom, top right, and bottom the first outing in 7 weeks!! We went to see the cliff divers in Acapulco, was really great to do a little outing but we're not used to the outside world and environment anymore....so pretty exhausted and were all looking forward to getting back to Yoga base!!
Friday, 23 May 2008
Week 7 - Friday - WHAT A WEEK
Well, where should I start.....I've just come back from the strongest class we have ever had in our 7 weeks Training! Which is what Bikram said and I felt super strong and it was Super super good! It keeps on amazing me this Yoga and this training....we've been absolutely killed and slaughtered by Bikram last night and the night before, had numerous students who had to be carried out of the room, breaking down, heat exhaustion or all over body cramping. And today, NOT ONE PERSON LEFT THE ROOM. We were strong, united and full of energy. This is all Bikram's plan, to kill us and then rebuild us. Touch wood, I've not had to leave the Yoga room so far and not experienced any bad cramping, just the occasional numbness in the arms.
Apart from that this week has been really a f.......difficult week. Beginning of the week I think half the students wanted to go home and just felt like they've seen it, done it and were ready to leave....so the atmosphere was strange. I felt like that too, did not have any energy. I've also lost a bit of my confidence in Posture delivery and then finally yesterday, when I delivered Head to Knee with Stretching - I finished after loosing a couple of lines and then said "this was terrible" and burst out into tears in front of 30 or so people.....I think it was a general emotional release of this whole training, the long days, the sore body, the mind having to learn the postures and the pressure of doing a good delivery. And people who know me, that I am a perfectionist and put pressure on myself, so I can be quite hard on myself if I don't perform well.
In any case the posture delivery was fine and it wasn't even terrible, that was just my perception.
It's amazing how many people actually go through a very similar process and feeling quite like I did.
Anyway, one more to go, the Spine Twisting Posture, I couple of people went today but I felt it was better to wait, learn it well over the weekend and make a good final delivery (or at least give my best).
As Bikram says, it's all about trying the RIGHT way.
The lack of sleep doesn't help when you feel a bit shaky anyway and then you have the women's cycle which can also play havoc with the physical and mental state.
Anyway enough of that.
It's now Friday evening and this week felt like a month for me....It's also the pressure of the reality hitting me that I will actually return to England as a Bikram Yoga Teacher (fingers crossed). And I will never again be able to practice in the studio as a student but as a teacher. So a whole range of emotions are involved in this new way of thinking. It's very exciting but also pretty scary.
TODAY IN ONE WEEK my dear husband will be arriving here in Mexico - I can't wait to see him and show him where I have been living for the past 8 weeks and the Yoga studio etc. It's all pretty impressive.
Tonight we have another video night with Bikram, I pray that it wont be past 1am. We all take pillows and ear plugs with us. The ear plugs because they play the film so loud and as we anyway only read sub titles it's more agreeable....
That's it for now.
1 week and 4 days to go. And we are one week ahead with posture clinic. So there might be some extra little posture delivery surprises awaiting us....I hope not and am worried where all the postures are in my brain, hopefully just ready to be used when I'm back in England!!!!
Lots of love,
K the Yogini xxx
Apart from that this week has been really a f.......difficult week. Beginning of the week I think half the students wanted to go home and just felt like they've seen it, done it and were ready to leave....so the atmosphere was strange. I felt like that too, did not have any energy. I've also lost a bit of my confidence in Posture delivery and then finally yesterday, when I delivered Head to Knee with Stretching - I finished after loosing a couple of lines and then said "this was terrible" and burst out into tears in front of 30 or so people.....I think it was a general emotional release of this whole training, the long days, the sore body, the mind having to learn the postures and the pressure of doing a good delivery. And people who know me, that I am a perfectionist and put pressure on myself, so I can be quite hard on myself if I don't perform well.
In any case the posture delivery was fine and it wasn't even terrible, that was just my perception.
It's amazing how many people actually go through a very similar process and feeling quite like I did.
Anyway, one more to go, the Spine Twisting Posture, I couple of people went today but I felt it was better to wait, learn it well over the weekend and make a good final delivery (or at least give my best).
As Bikram says, it's all about trying the RIGHT way.
The lack of sleep doesn't help when you feel a bit shaky anyway and then you have the women's cycle which can also play havoc with the physical and mental state.
Anyway enough of that.
It's now Friday evening and this week felt like a month for me....It's also the pressure of the reality hitting me that I will actually return to England as a Bikram Yoga Teacher (fingers crossed). And I will never again be able to practice in the studio as a student but as a teacher. So a whole range of emotions are involved in this new way of thinking. It's very exciting but also pretty scary.
TODAY IN ONE WEEK my dear husband will be arriving here in Mexico - I can't wait to see him and show him where I have been living for the past 8 weeks and the Yoga studio etc. It's all pretty impressive.
Tonight we have another video night with Bikram, I pray that it wont be past 1am. We all take pillows and ear plugs with us. The ear plugs because they play the film so loud and as we anyway only read sub titles it's more agreeable....
That's it for now.
1 week and 4 days to go. And we are one week ahead with posture clinic. So there might be some extra little posture delivery surprises awaiting us....I hope not and am worried where all the postures are in my brain, hopefully just ready to be used when I'm back in England!!!!
Lots of love,
K the Yogini xxx
Friday, 16 May 2008
Friday night - Week 6
Well, finished quite a hard week, with a Craig Class on Friday night!!! As you can imagine, it was super hot, super challenging - the speed he puts on for the Standing series is beyond - but it keeps you rocking I tell you!! My earlier tierdness has vanished (once again after an evening class). AND at the end, when Savasana started instead of a quiet moment the Reggae song, PLEASE DON'T WORRY, ABOUT A THING, EVERYTHING'S GOIN TO BE ALRIGHT.... and the whole room, over 300 People sang the song and clapped with their hands - what else can you do but cry after 6 weeks of Bikram Yoga Training and hearing this song after a Craig Class. People were hugging each other - moments like that make up for a long and challening week.
For those of you who don't know Craig, he is Bikram's left hand an basically our boss and managing this training - he is the BIG MAN so to speak and his classes are like an explosion.
Delivered two postures today and did really well, the teacher who evaluated me said: Awesome, you rock today!!
No free Friday night but posture clinic starting at 9pm. At least now Bikram lecture, which as you might remember, last Friday lasted until 4:15 am! So if I get to bed by midnight tonight, well, that's an early night for me :-)
A weekend ahead and not too many postures anymore to study - the End is getting closer and the mixed feelings about this are bizzare.
But need to study Bow Pose now, might be delivering a third posture today.
It's all going, never stopping, always forward, and as Craig says, we are riding the wave and should TRUST THE PROCESS.
Lots of love,
Katherine xx
For those of you who don't know Craig, he is Bikram's left hand an basically our boss and managing this training - he is the BIG MAN so to speak and his classes are like an explosion.
Delivered two postures today and did really well, the teacher who evaluated me said: Awesome, you rock today!!
No free Friday night but posture clinic starting at 9pm. At least now Bikram lecture, which as you might remember, last Friday lasted until 4:15 am! So if I get to bed by midnight tonight, well, that's an early night for me :-)
A weekend ahead and not too many postures anymore to study - the End is getting closer and the mixed feelings about this are bizzare.
But need to study Bow Pose now, might be delivering a third posture today.
It's all going, never stopping, always forward, and as Craig says, we are riding the wave and should TRUST THE PROCESS.
Lots of love,
Katherine xx
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