8 months later as a teacher and now 40?

I just celebrated my birthday a week or so ago, people have been asking me how is turning 40 hitting me, well all I can say GREAT!!! I feel that sometimes people are surprised to hear it, maybe I should say I am hating it? Well no because I am not, I am 40, happily married to my best friend for 20years, have 2 beautiful daughters and of course 2 cute dogs. Life is good !!!

Here I am on my couch looking back at my life, its been almost 8 months ago that I became a certified Bikram teacher. I started teaching the week I arrived from training and haven't stopped. I love saying to my hubby, I love my job and really it isn't a job but they are paying me to do something I love doing. Do I still get nervous teaching? Absolutely, my digestive system kicks in as soon as I walk into the studio but once I am in the Yoga Room that nervous energy changes to something more dynamic. I was lucky to have my studio owner Annette mentor me for the last 7 months, followed by Heidi our studio manager now giving me feedback each time she takes one of my classes. I take my teaching very serious, I read a posture everyday or sometimes the whole enchilada...hmm that sounds yummy!! I do, I still record and listen to my classes, I'm always working on improving my teaching, my dialogue. I have a vision of what kind of teacher I want to become but I am always reminded of a person that I sat next to the plane on my way home, what she told me touched me deeply and that was just to teach from the heart and fall in love with your students....thank you Judes!!

I visited Spring Teacher Training 2009 in Palm Springs, I believe it was week 7. It was an amazing experience and I am very happy that I went. I went with my studio owner Annette & Heidi, we took class with the 320 students and did some lectures, posture clinics, we did the whole thing, just like we were at training ourselves but this time we did some R&R, we enjoyed the pool and had a couple of drinks at the end of that week, we deserved and it felt great!! Everyone should go back, I remember saying to myself that would never go back but I did. I didn't get to see Bikram but I am hoping to catch him soon.