The move to Calgary has been super. It is definitely a city of motivation, so many areas that can be explored and there is always something to do, but one must be motivated to spend a lot of time in transit to enjoy all those aspects. One of the difficulties for me has been in how to navigate my time in all these activities.
Thankfully yoga has been my major path and my old behaviour of complete withdrawal when I get overwhelmed. Often in the past it was like my brain would just shut off and stop making decisions, which I think is rooted in the freeze response portion of the flight or flight. Now I have moments where I exhibit this behaviour but it does not have as deep of a hold on me as it once did.
I taught 4 karma classes through the holidays, all at the Yoga Passage in Calgary.
1)Christmas day I had over 40 people show up, I do believe that this will be my new tradition, teaching or practising yoga on Christmas day. Had Surya DancingBuddha adjusting the students of the class.
2)Regular Karma class - It continues to hit me that there are over 50 people coming to this class and when I was teaching at Love Life Hot Yoga maybe 10 or 15 people came to the class.
3)New Years Eve - Co-taught this class with Dr. Carolyn Hutchinson (Orthopedic Surgeon,B.Sc.Kinesiology, MD., LMCC, FRCS(C), YTC) which was a super blessing to experience. I would reformat it though and spend a little more time one on one with another teacher and really plan out some ideas as to what to do and when. Again about 50 people and Surya DancingBuddha adjusted the students of the class.
4)New Years Day - This was the busiest of all the classes yet, I am sure that 60 people showed up. It was such a blessing to participate with so many people on the first day of the year.
The beginning of the year has had a lot of focus on practicing partner yoga.
Signed up for another anatomy and physiology course. This one through Yogadotcalm which so far is review but now and again a tidbit of info makes its way through and adds to my collection of memes.
