The first time it hit me, I was in one of my course-mate’s 1 hour final teaching assessment class.<\/p>\n
“Wait a minute”, I thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Soon it will be my turn, 1 more month. Then we’d have a go at our first 1 hour class.<\/p>\n
Boy, was I unprepared at that moment.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to 23 July, it was lunch time in the office, on a Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
I got the text telling us our teaching slots have been allocated. The moment I saw that text, my heart went into panic mode. Oh. My. God. I am so nervous. The last time we tried to take a video of myself teaching a pose, I felt like burying my head in the ground for lack of a better description. Watching myself on video made me cringe! But then the more I practice, the more the “cringyness” wore off.<\/p>\n
Perhaps… it’d be the same for teaching?<\/p>\n
4 August. That’ll be my first class!<\/p>\n
“I’m going to do this!”, I told myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I prepared for a beginners’ sequence, taking time to run through the sequence again and again in my mind and in my free time.<\/p>\n
Had a bunch of friends come in to the studio on the day itself and\u00a0thankfully, my teacher Jessica Sinclair did a great job at teaching us to be prepared… my first try wasn’t perfect but it was exhilarating! Teaching my first class just felt so good and I was so glad to be able to help my friends explore\u00a0yoga. I think I\u00a0got a little too excited and made them hold forearm planks while blasting Taylor Swift, amidst a playlist of chill hop, white noise and a random outburst of KPOP (SISTAR). I loved how the class reacted to my funky music! I think catchy beats help distract the mind a little when you’re working your body hard. I had a blast and sincerely thank everyone\u00a0for sharing their beautiful energy and practice. \u2665\ufe0f\ud83d\ude4c\u00a0Plus, some of them left me with sweet, kind words after class. Nothing better than to hear positive words from your students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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