It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome a new teacher to Balance Yoga!  Lucy Howard is joining us from the beautiful city of London and will be covering all of my classes while I am away on my Bhaktilicious journey next week in San Francisco.  Lucy had the pleasure of training in Bali, Indonesia at Shakti Spirit Yoga under the loving guidance of Rachel Hull (www.shaktispirit.com).   Please be kind to Lucy while I am away as she jumps into the routine and gets comfortable at the studio. 

Well, I certainly need to update this thing more often.  I understand I have some blog "devotees" now; strange & wonderful at the same time.  I don't think that anything I have to say is particularly important other than maybe what time class is...  I digress. 

I have officially started my bhakti flow teacher training and, WOW, it's a lot of work!  But, it is work that I don't mind getting to.  As matter of fact I am kind of obsessed with it at this moment.  I was officially accepted into Rusty Well's teacher training program in early September.  This is the teacher that blew the roof off of my practice this past July when I was visiting San Francisco.  Since then I've been bhakti obsessed!  I have read and been told that when it is time, your teacher will find you and I believe that is what has happened in my life.  I had been contemplating different trainings to take my personal practice and my teaching to a much higher level and was seriously considering several different programs throughout the country.  I didn't even really know of bhakti flow (this is the style of yoga based on Bhakti or the yoga of devotion), but after taking just one class, I knew that was where I belonged and I felt that Rusty was the right teacher to study with/under.  The teacher training program that I am currently in is a 200 hr level course in which I am completing 100 hrs now and another 100 in March/April in NYC.  I am currently completing the home study portion of the training which includes approximately 5-7 hours of written work, study and reading every week.  I just finished up the week 2 assignments and am already learning and applying the work into my own practice.  I, of course, can't wait to share it all with my students when I am finished.  At the end of this month I will be leaving my family for 10 long days traveling to San Francisco ( one of my favorite cities on the planet) and training with Rusty & crew.  So far, the experience has exceeded my expectations and I am really looking forward to meeting all of my teachers and the other students in person.  I will be staying with another student who is hosting me for all ten days.  She, like me, is already a teacher and we happen to have a lot of other things in common.  She is a mom of two and we are becoming good facebook friends at the moment.  I am very grateful to be able to have this opportunity.  I am filled with enthusiasm and energy.  I have a feeling that over the next month I will experience tremendous growth and change and I am welcoming that with open arms.