I greatly enjoy teaching yoga. It energizes me and makes me feel good. I meet many nice people whom I'd never meet otherwise, and I feel that I'm helpful to them.
Tonight I taught as a substitute in a large class. The regular teacher is a mentor and contacted me just a few hours before class to say she wasn't feeling well. So instead of walking right home after work, I stopped off at the studio, which is about a third of the way home, to teach.
Yoga brings to me a sense of satisfaction and joy that is far beyond what I experience at work, even on the best days. The more I teach, the more comfortable I get and the more tools I have to work with the students. I'm on a pace to reach 500 hours of teaching in my first year and a half, which is far more than I could have hoped when I taught my first class.
Teaching that much has squeezed out some other things in my life, like composing music and having time to read, but I think it has been valuable to have the focus and concentration, and simply get a lot of teaching experience.
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