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- three jobs: long before ever teaching yoga
temping:
when you're a temp there are carbon copy triplicate forms you must have signed by your boss for the week, and fax before 3 pm on friday for the check to come in time.
gardening:
She moves 2 wheelbarrow loads of mulch to my 20. There is sweat tickling my cheek and coating my shins, it is everywhere, and I fan out the bottom of my t-shirt to allow a breeze on my stomach.
massage therapy:
It is the same exact thing each time. He walks in to the house without knocking or ringing the bell now since we have a routine and I am expecting him. He says a quick breathy hi, takes his plastic bags into the bathroom and comes back out...
MUSIC:
artist: Lobo Loco
album: Vagabond
Songs in order of appearance:
1. hey go
2. work wonders
3. psychedelic blues
4. just a moment
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Vagabond/
20 min - Sandbox & Am I a Yoga Evangelist?
story 1 ~ Coworkers, trance dance and art not to touch
2 ~ a tiny studio where it's even more obvious and distracting when one student doesn't want to be there
music:
1. Song: Things Album: Back To The Sea Artist: Adam & Alma a young electro duo from Stockholm, Sweden- Ellen Arkbro and Johan Graden. With roots in jazz, strongly influenced by American indie pop and Swedish electro, they create their own musical universe. Electronic sounds, Johan's piano and Ellen's voice make a unique sonority that brings the electronic back to the organic.
2. Song: Pictures of Matchstick Men Artist: Camper Van Beethoven live at the Middle East Downstairs Jan 2018
My friend Dori's amazing art: http://dorinamolnar.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=24700&Akey=CE893GPT
18 min - 15 min
- 14 min
About the whole beautiful
From the publisher's feed
If a yoga teacher quits doing postures and no one is witness, or if everyone is there and they shake their heads in disbelief, or if they ask for real yoga, wistfully, like the old days, and if she has students now but feels as if she has woken from a long held spell cast upon her by unknown forces and is now awake for the first time in many years, well what is she then?
From the beginning, and I started teaching yoga in the winter of 2005, I wrote vignettes captured along the way about students, coworkers, my own personal growth and practice. I was learning as I went, looking for definition, poorly equipped I think in retrospect to help people in many ways and sufficiently equipped in others. I wrote about trainings and fallings-out with employers and business challenges, keeping intermittent diaries about various confounding and often troubling aspects of the work.
It’s often a job with very little support. There are no peer reviews or supervision and likely few fellow teachers to interact with especially if you’re entirely self employed.
Most of the teachers I’ve known have had a primary earning partner and teach a handful of classes at most. Career teachers are few and far between and must now compete with a saturated market both in person and online.
This podcast tells this story in the form of essays, notes, journal entries and stories as true and accurately as I can remember. Names have been changed, identities disguised. All stories filter through individual lenses but I aim to be fair and generous in my telling and never to assume clarity where there is none.
My personal stories surely intersect and overlap with common and universal ones, capturing similar under and over tones as yours, representing archetypal themes. Ultimately we tell our stories to feel part of something. To represent and re-examine the human condition.
Yoga itself is complex and the job of contemporary teaching is also wildly varied, slippery to define, rewarding and exasperating in equal measure. There is a revolution going on right now in the field and I am only one of thousands asking probing questions of its intention, efficacy, promise, history, underpinnings and tackling the subsequent questions about where we go from here? This podcast also provides a window in my process of questioning, wrestling, exploring and discovering.