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Pictured left, “Eiffel Tower Pose on Family Yoga Day”
Fun short story w/grandparents & grandchildren.
Twitter excerpt added 042616 at end 🙂
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“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”
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Teacher Immersion Experience with Lex Gillan – in Tweets
Day 7
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Intro
below, are my real time tweets for day 7, my final day of my yoga teacher immersion training with lex gillan
i cleaned up a lot of the stuff that shows up when you copy a tweet, and kept one picture of me from one tweet
footnotes have added “after-thought” to some tweets 😉
Please Note:
tweets normally show as most recent on top, but, to reflect a narrative, i’ve rearranged the sequence so these will read top down, earliest first
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Day 7
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: has it really been 7 eleven hr days not counting study & travel time? our 15 yr old kitty leo says meow! 😉
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: the drive in this am was cool & clear, & tho packed with friday traffic, only 1 crazy white pickup on the road [1]
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: extended meditation again this am, tho not quite as long as yest, whole class looks fwd to this now, an event
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: meditation combo of triple ohm (o, m, & full sound) + short fast vinyasa + “long” slow held poses + just sitting
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: lex: meditation: simply the means to training (bringing) oneself (repeatedly) back to the moment
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: lex: meditation: paths: concentration or visualization – can one successfully do visualization during asanas? [2]
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: began practicum before lunch cont’d til done near evening: 4 poses @, ?’s on sutras, yamas, niyamas, business ¢
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: everyone better techniquely (cueing, active positioning of self in classroom during instr, etc), practice shows
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: much greater recognition by @ of improvements & missed details; self awareness of teaching immensely improved
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: patience & compassion felt from lex by @ incredibly soothing and encouraging; the goal is to learn, with caring
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: broke for lunch before my turn 😉 great group lunch at guliani’s in the village in hou http://www.guglianis.com
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: remembered “most” my improvement cues from prev classes, but look fwd to so many improvements ahead – i passed!!
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: am particularly interested in merging both my fitness AFAA learnings (ongoing) & my interest in imagery & words
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: have painted written, in various varied formats & styles for decades, am thrilled to feel i’ll blend all in yoga
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: can see applying my love of words images & people to both meditation & asanas; challenging? yes, of course 😉
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more on the lex gillan immersion later today, still have mucho mas to say 😉 of course
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my super senior 15 yr old kitty leo’s so glad to see me! asked him how he’s been while i’ve been “immersed” – says, he purrs like a roar!!
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: when everyone’d did their practicum, we finished with a 45 min sufi chant-dance with rotating i-2-i partners [3]
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: sufi chant-dance-meditation reminded me of latin based catholic chant-candle rituals – incense, bells, nightime
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: sufi chant-dance-meditation cont: i was 12, everyone single file w/candles wound slowly in out & back the church
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: sufi chant-dance-meditation cont: surprises like this, that brought back so much i’d thought i’d lost, a great +
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day 7 lex gillan immersion: all in all, this concludes my day to day immersion, it was more than i’d hoped 😉 [4]
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lex gillan immersion: tomorrow i start a day of things like, best thing i learned, etc – gonna give myself to a cold beer & my warm wife 😉
footnotes:
[1] it was a relief to see the level of anger on the road let-up in the morning; but it was easy to see the other drivers also watching the driver in the white pick-up truck, hoping the flow wouldn’t get hi-jacked by one lone impatient person
[2] this was a question that came to mind as i did my pose-teaching-run, and i cued a visualization to go with the twist & exhale with ardha matsyendrasana (half lord of the fishes pose)
actually, i think visualizations come to mind naturally during poses (though, as per eric franklin, not to all people – and not that we don’t all have visuals within us, just that some of us can access them more easily)
[3] this was an interesting rotating-partners group exercise that reminded me incredibly of several young-age teen & pre-teen experiences i had during mass, back when service was what now would be considered traditional, lots more bells and chimes and incense and chants and singing
[4] writing this, nearly a month later, i still feel as strongly, if not more so, that the immersion was more than i’d hoped for, which was quite a bit anyway 😉
– end of 4 part series
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Yoga Teacher Immersion Experience with Lex Gillan – in * Tweets * Days 1 & 2
Yoga Teacher Immersion Experience with Lex Gillan – in * Tweets * Days 3 & 4
Yoga Teacher Immersion Experience with Lex Gillan – in * Tweets * Days 5 & 6
Yoga Teacher Immersion Experience with Lex Gillan – in * Tweets * Day 7
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Eiffel Tower Pose on Family Yoga Day
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Twitter excerpt added April 26, 2016 –
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