Lessons of the Student Teacher

Sunday's (12/6) classes at the Alexander YMCA were good experiences in spontaneity. Although I finally mastered the music system, I left my class notes at home. Ha!This created a greater focus for me in my ordering of the program. I chose to move about and give some hands on fine tuning of the stretches for at least half of the class (compared to about 90+% on the mat at the last class). It isn't clear how many were new to yoga, but at least one was. Another student was very excited about my teaching the class. She practiced the program in my You Call This Yoga DVD and stated "her daily practice helped her progress through emotional struggles". The opportunity to then share lessons from my mentors at Moving Mantra was already primed. At the end of class, a newly returning to yoga student offered positive feed back on pacing and volume of words. Now about those notes...
The chair yoga class was brief and had 2 students. The goal of a 15 minutes session lead to the teaching of Sitting Mountain pose. Then imagining and moving a position of holding a pencil with the shoulder blades. Then pressing a piece of paper against the the wall with the back of the head. The "simplified" Body Alignment Series. We just added the breathing.