Tünde, Week Two
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.