Strategy?

Many of my friends have asked me what my strategy is. What do you do to prepare for nine weeks Bikram Yoga Teacher Training?

I’m not sure how to prepare for it but I do know I feel like I’m ready.

My ideal is to get to training physically fit to go. Mentally I am ready to go for the physical challenge of doing double classes for 9 wks. I’ve never done a double ever. Debated to do a few before I go and have decided not to. It won’t make that much difference to do them now I think and I want to spend the time with my family rather than being away from them for four hours a day.

Some trainers I’ve met over the past weeks all told me the same thing; take it easy in the beginning, let yourself adjust to the schedule, the heat, the group and the routine. Don’t push yourself too hard the first couple of weeks. That sounds like very good advice and that’s what I’ll do.

26 postures come with 46 pages of text known as “the dialog”. It’s hard copy that Bikram wrote for all his teachers to memorize. Each posture comes with a dialog and it’s something we have to know by heart. For the past couple of months I have tried to look into this copy as much as I can to make it easier on myself once the training is going on. It’s very hard to just try to memorize a posture when the rest of your live is also going on but I do feel I have spend a good amount of time with it so it won’t be new once we have to present.

My biggest challenge will be being away from my guys for 9 wks. That is something I can not possibly prepare for. It’s something I have to take one week at the time. We’ll e-mail and we’ll Skype. Most of all we’re connected either way. They’ll be always in my thoughts.
My oldest son already told me ‘Mom you can’t quit, there are no quitters in the Kyle family’. He’s got that right!

From the moment I decided to do this training I have never doubted my choice to go. It will be an amazing experience and I can’t wait to share my story with you as I go.
It has been incredible to see how many people support me while doing this. Your nice words, your sweet notes and all the positive feedback means the world to me.