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Hi I’m Chalice, and I’m a part of this wonderful yoga teacher training here at the CorePower studio, and I’ve been practicing yoga for a very long time, different styles of yoga, and something really special happened to me when I came to CorePower yoga for the first time. Really experiencing the flow, the music, and just the powerful group energy that this kind of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga brings to the whole “banquet of yoga styles,” I guess you could say.

Anyway, there’s pretty major growth and transition in my life, and I decided to make the yoga CorePower teacher training an intensive part of that transition — to keep my head in a clear space, and also pave the way to a new chapter of my life. I plan to teach yoga, and I’m thinking of relocating to France: I’m a French speaker, and I just absolutely love it out there — talk about being present – it’s really a different pace of life, people take time to smell the roses and taste the wild strawberries, what can I say? — so thinking of taking my five-year-old daughter out there, and giving her the opportunity for an international upbringing, and opening a studio.

Probably on the Atlantic coast of France, or perhaps further south on the Mediterranean near the border of Spain, and I’m going to take an exploratory mission out there this winter holiday, and just see what’s out there in terms of the yoga and what I can possibly bring and share with that part of the world.

People here at the teacher training are just absolutely wonderful, I made some lovely friends, and it’s just an incredible experience. And that’s about that. I can’t recommend it enough, it’s just a fabulous, life-transforming experience, no mistake. namaste

Hi, it’s Ifer. And I just got to listen to the first four blogs, and I have to say — (exhale) I’m just touched by everybody, and why they’re here. My story is different — I discovered yoga probably five years ago with my mother when we were on a retreat and kind of fell in love with it. And since then I’ve been searching for the right spot. And I didn’t find it, so after my mother died this year and after I found core power yoga, I knew it was what I needed to do. So, just maybe two to three months into my new practice, the teacher training came about, and I kind of knew it was something I wanted to do.

And since I made that decision, I found a lot of peace and harmony and, actually, a better way of dealing with my surroundings, because I’m feeling so much better inside. At first, it was very physical attraction, because I’ve always been physically attracted to sports. And then this magical thing came about, where all of a sudden I realized that my mind and spirit was benefiting from it as well.

So here we are in our second full week of training — it’s pretty intense, 20 hours of yoga training — and at least six to ten hours of yoga classes and now I have absolutely no time outside of yoga and work. But I still am able to find this balance and this harmony between my mind, body and spirit. And that sounds very coined, but I can’t find another way of saying it. So after my first week I’m completely exhausted and I find that food is my nourishment and sleep is my healing. So I will touch base with you again.

Hello. My name is Isabella or Isa, and I just started doing the teacher training program. I was inspired through a friend who took me to a class, and ever since then I’ve been addicted — and like to reach people in a physical aspect and teach them through … kind of the same way I’ve been enfolded through yoga. Hope to reach people in that aspect as well.

Hi, I am Vidya. I’va been doing yoga for three years now, and before that I had cervical cancer and arthritis. Doing yoga every day, one or two classes per day, healed my arthritis and cervical cancer. So it is that I can’t live without yoga. I am in the CorePower yoga teachers training right now. Thank you.

My name is Mary, and I decided to take the CorePower yoga without even knowing what it was about. I saw it on the Internet, and knew I wanted to teach yoga, but wasn’t sure which entity. But this was very intriguing to me. So I came, and I took a couple of classes during my training, and luckily found this is the perfect yoga for Mary. I think it’s great, I love the energy, I love the pace, the challenge, it’s all good. Thanks.

Hi — my name is Tünde. I am 25 years old, and I am signed up to do the CorePower teacher training. And we’re into the second week. My first yoga class I had taken a while ago, but nothing too serious. Just recently, this past December, I had taken my first class at CorePower.

It was a Bikram class, the hot yoga, which is done at 105°. And I absolutely fell in love. After that first class, I was drenched in sweat. And I felt alive, and I felt beaten up, it was something I’d never experienced before in any other athletics sports I had done.

I’m pretty physically active, I’m very big into hacky sacking, I’m pretty good in that sport — I’m a runner but I’d stopped doing that because of my knees, and I like to hike, and I bike everywhere — Boulder’s a great place to live for bikers, so — my intention is that I’m also going to be seven years sober in November, and I’ve found that yoga definitely plays a really big part in the body/mind/spirit connection for me. And I’m also part of some other organizations and a 12-step group. And I just feel my soul is searching and seeking the spiritual essence of the universe or God or whatever you want to call it.

So, when I am doing a yoga class, I feel so in touch with not just myself — but I feel at one with the people in the class. And I have time to stop and get out of my mind — I can dedicate my practice to, say, Katrina victims, or just get outside of myself. And also stay inside of myself, if that makes sense. Shut my mind off, and just really get in touch with my body, and shut the noise of my mind off.

So, after taking some Bikram classes I accidentally tried a CorePower class, and fell in love. It has music, and you’re doing aerobic things, you’re doing your Core strengthening, it’s motion and movement, it’s integrated with your breath, and so when I found that there was teacher training, I knew, there was something in my gut that I knew I had to take the teacher training course.

I’m also a full-time student at CU studying sociology, and I didn’t necessarily know if I could handle the workload of going to school and taking the training, and also with all my other stuff, I’m getting married, planning a wedding … But the more thought about it, and the more that came up for me was that I deserve to do this — whether I would use it for teaching, I don’t know — I can’t say as of yet, we’re only into week two.

But I can say that I’m learning so much, and also being able to just create really beautiful relationships with the class, get to know the teachers here, and it’s like a small little — it’s a beautiful place to be in practice, and I feel so fortunate and very, very blessed to be in this moment, to be in this time — how do I want to say it — to be present. What a blessing it is to be present.

Because I know the opposite: of not being present, being stressed out, being frazzled, being emotional, and I definitely am grateful for this balance. And yoga has definitely been an incredible part of that journey of being balanced. Class is amazing. And I don’t know, I guess I’m going to leave off on that note, but thanks for letting me participate.