A number of issues arose in the past several days for a handful of people at the studio... which has put me in a position to teach 12 classes in one week (2 down, 10 to go as of this evening). It's not the number of classes that worries me... in fact, that part is pretty exciting.
It's just one class that might keep me awake tonight...
I'm substituting for a girl tomorrow night whose class is very popular. It's a Vinyasa class... for those of you who don't know, Vinyasa is a more dynamic and creative practice compared to the slow, consistent, meditative, and endurance building hot yoga series I usually teach. While I think I'll have a challenging sequence by tomorrow lined up in my head, I teach Vinyasa very infrequently, so I'm naturally nervous. I also would hate to disappoint this teacher's regular students. I'm definitely not her. She teaches a unique and great class.
I'm having a flashback to college. The nerves you get the night before an exam... Even if you tell yourself that, once you sit down to the test, it will all be over before you know it (in my case, in 90 minutes), it doesn't help the jitters beforehand.
I'm going to go to bed and hide under the covers until morning... I just so want to teach a great class that won't make students groan if they see my name on the schedule should I teach a class like this one again.
(To make matters worse, I'm not with Beth on her birthday today. At least we have Alice in March, right Beth?)
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