I will be subbing at Bay Club, Redwood Shores Thursday morning so look me up if you are a member there or trying out the place.  The people there are very warm and whenever I step into the Club, I feel this positive energy and joyful vibes – thank you in advance for joining me as I cover for a fellow yogini and a beautiful soul, Myra.

Speaking of teaching, reading these words of the revered master, the late,  B.K.S. Iyengar and so humbled:  “Each pupil who comes to you comes with some new problems.  No two persons are alike.  Therefore, teaching cannot be parrot teaching.  Each pupil has to be studied….Do not differentiate between yourself and the pupil. … If there is a gap between teacher and student, it creates egoism in  the teacher and a communication gap between them.”

“When students come to me to learn, I treat them as God, as we are all children of God.  As a teacher, one must be a pupil within.”

Then this gem:

“So please do not practice yoga with the sole motive to become a teacher.  If occasion arises, accept to teach.  While learning, I never thought that I might have to teach.  The circumstances forced me to become a teacher.  If pupils did not come to me, I said that it was God’s wish that I devote my time to more practice.  And when pupils came, I would say to myself that it is God’s wish to serve them.  In both ways I took it as God’s grace.”

I am awe of this legendary guru’s teachings.. and that my teacher Judith learned directly from this legend gives me the goose bumps.  She imbues the guru’s wisdom, shining with her own passion and love for yoga.  I am so lucky to have had so many great teachers in my life, starting off with my parents and grandparents, the first teachers, then all the mentors yoga related and not… We learn so much from each other.  I love this human race:)