The Easter bunny was out on Hertel today. Young kids collecting eggs in awe of the big bunny. There’s a lightness to children. A sense of wonderment and hope.
The older we get, the more we can veer away from that. In some cases it just gets beaten out of us.
Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place…a town…a house like a lot of other houses… A yard like a lot of other yards…on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is…after all these years, I still look back…with wonder.
–The Wonder Years
That sense of wonder we have kids can come out in our yoga practice, if we let it. Being light emotionally. Not worried about the poses. Not worried about falling out of them. That emotional lightness comes through physically.
It’s so easy to be hard on ourselves. We forget that yoga can actually be… fun.
Same goes for teaching the practice. We can cue students to death trying to get them into a pose. Be worried about what the students think.
What really separates great teachers is when they authentically lead.
When they forget to call a pose on a side. When they can let their personality come out.
Anyone can call the poses. It’s the ability to be yourself that will create lasting impact on the student.
Is yoga going to be fun all the time? No.
But it is possibility that we seem to forget.
Just a thought.
