I taught my first full 90 min flow at Prana Power yoga in Winchester on Sunday. To conserve my energy I spent literally the entire early part of the day on the couch, and surprisingly relaxed. I came to the realization this weekend that even my original version of cutting back wasn't going to cut it, in terms of where my body is at.... So to be on the safe side couch it was.
I knew the nerves would hit eventually, which they did on the Way over. Not surprised and spent the car ride breathing. Fortunately because I didn't have a key I had to get there really early, so that stress was gone. I chilled out on the curb waiting till I could get in. And then I made sure I was situated with the computer and stuff.
Checking people in went pretty good, especially since I knew 4 of the 8 people that came. And there wasn't really a rush on things. I got the door shut and made my way to class.
I changed the first half of class a bit, which was scary but fun. I started them in child's pose which is how I like to start, a good thing about teaching irregularly...you don't feel as repetitive. I also changed up the crescent twist portion, bringing in revolved half moon and standing leg split. The two funny things that happened in the first half were I actually noticed when I said chatturunga instead of uttcatasana, which apparently has happened before but I had never noticed. The second one was that I cued for everyone to take a high twist before going into crescent lung and literally one person actually did it. I was extremely glad for that because otherwise I probably would have thought I didn't say it. So if helped to know that at least I said what I intended. And hey, apparently people really don't listen to you while teaching.
The second half was more vanilla flow. The funny thing that happened there was I had sort of a ton of time left (an indication I could have probably held things longer) when I got pretty near the end of the flow that we learned. So what did I do, held a really long half pigeon and added the quad stretch, cued supported fish.... Because who doesn't love it. And did a whole 10 min savasana. Which of course meant I could assist everyone. I'd say overall a win.
I'd say I'm mainly excited that I got one down. Woot woot. And I also realized something else. I can time holds out by assisting. That way I'll be more likely to be balanced on both sides... Cause there is nothing more annoying then when one side is held longer then the other.
Overall so excited to teach again, and looking forward to improving my skills.!
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