Yoga School Drop-Out

Posted by Alicia King Feb 6, 2008

Sorry for the brief delay between my blog posts recently. I've been doing a lot of soul searching.

With strains of Frankie Avalon singing in the back of my head, I feel like I need the pink bouffant hairdo. I've decided that now is not the right time in my life to pursue my RYT-200 Certification Training.

When I enrolled last fall, I was certain that this was the right school for me, that I was learning from the perfect teacher… but I ultimately spent more time convincing myself of these things than seeing the truth for what it was.

For now, I'm a writer who practices yoga,. I'm a yogi who writes, and I'm not going to be a yoga instructor anytime in the relatively near future.

That's not to say I'm not ever going to pursue teacher training. I think it is definitely a course of action for me at some point in the future.

What I am saying is that where I am in my life right now, and with that particular teacher, this is not for me. Perhaps I needed a more structured curriculum, a few milestones so I could build momentum and see how far I’ve already come. Perhaps I just need to wait until the rest of my life settled down a little bit more.

Staying with something for the sake of commitment even though it was not working for me is tantamount to saying I'm not capable of learning what I need or want. It goes back to that old definition of insanity about continuing to do something the same way and expecting different results.

I’m not a certified yoga instructor, but I’m still fairly sane.