You heard it here first! Free Yoga, selected Friday nights at YogaSource Los Gatos!
Way before we moved into this money pit-life-sucking vampire of a house (no I’m not bitter, why would you ask?), I had a personal yoga practice. I’d ride and race my bike several days per week, fit in about 2 or 3 yoga classes and still make time for a personal practice where I’d discover new things about poses and how they helped me mind, body and spirit. My personal practice was where all the “ah ha’s” in yoga happened for me. Way before I even attended a yoga class, I’d learn how to use my core to lift up into headstand using a bunch of yoga books and an old mat in my living room. I also learned how to get into arm balances without falling on my face and the secret to bone stacking. Whether my practice was for 10 miniutes before a bike ride or two hours, it was the thing that kept my body from being injured or pushing myself too far in either a yoga class or other activities.
Then the money pit happened. And sure, I went ahead and completed a teacher training program last year hoping that would get me back to my personal practice. But it didn’t. Instead, the money pitt/life vampire house kept me distracted. And yet there are so many things in yoga that I discover every day that I’d love to share as an instructor. But here’s where the catch happens. I actually have to speak in front of people. Eee gads. I had been a teacher a few times in my life. I taught aerobics to get me through undergraduate school and was a Psychology TA in grad school. As a Psychology TA, I was lucky enough to have the wise-crack students who’d blurt out “do you believe in spontaneous combustion” in my classes. I wish I knew then, what I know now. Those wisenhiemers would have gotten a free lesson in spontaneous combusion. Oh ya.
For obvious reasons, being an aerobics instructor was much easier! I kept them all too winded to ask me any silly questions. But even so, I never really felt comfortable speaking in front of a group. Whether I was standing in front of 18-year old psychology students or in front of a bunch of people wearing my Jackson Pollock leotard and tights–that’s me to the right there, rockin’ it Pollock style’–I always had that knot in my stomach that told me I should run.
I made the resolution to get my personal practice back this year, and as a way to commit to that, I offerd up some free yoga classes (yes FREE) at YogaSource Los Gatos on Friday evenings, 5:15 pm. Speaking in front of y’all shouldn’t be too hard. As long as my brain doesn’t crack when I forget what pose is next.
If you haven’t been to the YogaSource Los Gatos studio, you don’t know what you’re missing. Unlike a lot of the smaller, cramped studios in the area, this one is newly built, gorgeously furninshed and has two rooms for multiple classes. Showers and all the accomodations are available and you may be tempted to purchase some of the fabulous lines of clothing that the studio carries.
I don’t know the schedule just yet, but as soon as I do, I’ll post it here. So check the YogaSource calendar of when those FREE Friday classes are happening and stop by. I promise there will be great music and you’ll have some fun. If you don’t have any fun, I’ll give you your money back.
Just, please, no questions about spontaneous combustion.
