Set free
…to follow myself
You know, this year in spring an opportunity presented itself to offer a Hatha yoga course through a local educational institution for adults. Since I was thinking about if I wanted my own course for a few months, I took it and had five sign ups for my first course.
I did a break for summer and now sign ups are open again. I dreaded to look at the current number for a few days because after the last course, I had the impression, that people were not that appreciative of my yoga style. I probably didn’t offer what they expected. Western style yoga.
To be honest, I’m usually bad at offering what people expect. It’s kind of my life’s theme. I do my style. It might take me a while to find it, like with my yoga style. But I usually find it and it rarely happens to be what others do. Like in this instance, where there are many yoga instructors at the same institution with me. And their style seems to be more like what I would call a yoga trainer. They tell people, what to do, because it helps with their xyz problem. People follow along and have an excuse for themselfes, “but I do yoga”. So, everyone is happy.
I thought about it, if I want to do my yoga classes the same way. I probably would be able to do it and I probably could become good at it. After all, I’m already a Zumba trainer and my class is more than full.
I could do it, but I don’t want to. Because yoga is so much more than putting on a good show. I have so much more to offer than a good show. I want to share my yoga. The yoga I got to know in the last ten years of my life.
And this is why I dreaded to look at the current number of sign ups. Yesterday, I did it and after seeing there were two people who signed up, something incredible happened. Instead of sinking into dispair, because I need at least five people, I got the idea to just pass on my payment and do it anyway, if they let me.
I wrote them, that I know I am different and therefor will probably take more time but I will be doing some advertising for the Hatha course in my YinYoga workshops, which are quite well received, and we’ll see, where the sign ups go.
Having two participants opened up the next opportunity, because I can just ask them, what they want to know or do. This way it’s again less a performance and more a collaboration.
Universe, I am ready! If you send me the people, who are willing to hear me, I will help them to the best of my abilities!
