By Paula Hines
Teacher’s Tales:
Sometimes we need to be fed. I’ve heard one of my teachers, Norman Blair say this before. It’s stuck in my head ever since and it particularly resonated for me recently when I went along to a three day yoga immersion. I was not there for another certification or to achieve a particular goal. With my other classes covered, I took three days purely for me. I needed to be fed.
If you are a teacher, when was the last time you went to a class or workshop and really, truly switched off your teaching brain, instead of drifting off and thinking, “that’s a nice bit of sequencing,” “that’s a good quote – where’s that from?” all with ideas of incorporating into your own teaching somehow? It’s not that doing this is bad or wrong, and of course there are times when we attend such events with the specific intention of enhancing our teaching. But, when that is not the intention, does ‘teaching brain’ leap into action and get in the way of fully immersing yourself in the experience as a student? I am guilty as charged.
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