Pin now, read later: Confessions of a yoga teacher - the space between.
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For some people, the joy of a pose emerges when the traditional, full expression of the pose is realized. The best part for these people is when they're 100% perpendicular to the ground in handstand, or when they're in the textbook perfect split.
For a while, I was the same. It didn't matter how I got there, just get me in the pose, you know? Hurry up and get there!
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Confessions of a yoga teacher is a series about my experiences as an instructor. Sometimes the posts are funny, sometimes they're more serious. The idea is to spark conversation about teaching yoga within the yoga community here in the comments below or on the YBC Yoga Forum. Please feel free to share your experiences!
A few weeks ago I attended the Yoga Journal Conference in Miami, where I took a class by Eric Paskel, an unorthodox yoga instructor who taught a class called Yoga Rocks: The Doors, a loud, in your face, kick your asana kind of class. The sequencing was pretty basic, the music was pretty great (if you like The Doors), and the attitude of the teacher was refreshing (he may or may not have asked us to go from warrior 2 to reverse warrior 2 with the middle finger raised at all the fears and self doubts we had). It was a class filled with laughs and dance moves, and yeah, it was a little cheesy at parts, but it was also inspiring.
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I love my job. I love the people I meet, and the creative process of choreographing a sequence to a playlist. I love researching ways to help, and figuring out how I can weave that knowledge into my classes. I love reading the class energy and making changes on the fly. And I love when I get a new student.
They're often timid, a little nervous, and generally will place their mat closest to the door or as far back into the corner of the room as they can. Sometimes they'll even approach me before class and say, "I've really never taken yoga before, and I'm not even sure I'll get through the class."
You know what I say to that?
"I don't care."
Read MoreBad yogi alert!
Wearing: ASICS kinsei 5 sneakers, fabletics pants, j. crew favorite tank
Just for fun, a list of all the things I do that might make me a "bad" yoga person. Are you one, too?!
Read MoreI am so grateful to be able to work from anywhere in the world. In just a few years of writing a blog and creating videos for my yoga youtube channel, I've been able to connect with some amazing people, and it's turned into opportunities for yoga retreats and workshops worldwide and a chance to work with high quality brands I love like Hugger Mugger and Gaiam.
As the reach of YogaByCandace grows, I find our little community growing (loved that post on Facebook where we all wrote in the country we were in), but with the good also comes the bad.
Read MoreScorpion pose progress
Wearing: Left - velvet tank (on supersale!), lululemon shorts. Middle: f21 basic tank, teeki pants, Right: same teeki pants and loft tank (same style)
A confession: Scorpion pose is freaking hard.
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