Sunday, December 6, 2009

The Proper Care and Feeding of a New Bikram Instructor

First make sure you attend graduation. When she tweets that she fell out of standing head to knee during the yoga demonstration, text her that nobody noticed (she did fantastic fyi). Then make sure when she gets to the very packed club that the yogi Christmas party is at be sure to find her even though you can't move, hear or see due to the loud music and mass of bodies. Make note of the very late time when you leave her, still dancing and tell her you will come pick her up from the Hilton very early the next day. The next morning, when you get the tired new teacher and all of her stuff into the car, drive her straight up to a yoga class (I know, it's mean, but I did it **evil chuckle**). In my defense, it was first class ever for newly graduated George, who is a Las Vegas trainee and we wanted to go. After that, drag her around on a bunch of errands, including an oil change. Poke fun at her when she shows off her new talent of sleeping upright in a chair (critical for surviving teacher training I'm told). After all of this torture, finally bring her home, light some Christmas candles, cook a nice hot meal and pop a funny movie into the dvd to enjoy while eating said meal.
Congratulations to Mei and the entire fall 2009 Bikram teacher training class...welcome to the world of being a certified Bikram instructor! We look forward to learning from you and growing with you.

P.S- I owe you guys a post about the graduation and party (I have pics!). Later this week, I promise!

11 comments:

  1. Congratulations Mei and the class of Fall 2009! Now you all can spread your passion for this yoga!

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  2. ""New talent of sleeping upright in a chair" - LMAO. Saw a bunch of pics on FB from the grad demo - everyone looked AMAZING! My friend Alexa was right in front of Mei in a pink outfit and she is teaching her first class at 9am tomorrow in S.B. YAY for all the new baby teachers!!

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  3. Oh you evil one! Just kidding. Really funny though! Candles, dinner, funny movie sounds perfect! Congrats to Mei all the new teachers!

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  4. Iz~ hear hear!
    Hannah~ the oil change was bad manners on my part, but I have been so busy! She was a trooper! I redeemed myself with the dinner/movie. :)
    J~ she is good at it too! She can also sleep under a chair during a loud bollywood movie.
    traci~ it was nice, esp with my Christmas decorations all up. tonight we will put the tree up with my daughter. tis the season!

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  5. Oh the tree! So much fun. I don't really do a tree. I have like 3 silver trees and a white feather tree that i adore but oddly nothing green. Happy tree decorating

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  6. what a great write up. made me wish i were there. :)

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  7. Nice hostess :) and congrats to all new teachers!!! Looking forward to some pics!!!

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  8. Traci~ xmas time. **sigh** lovely time of year!
    Charlane~ thank you! and so glad you dropped by from twitter world! :)
    cirita~ thank you!

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  9. Yay, new teachers! A few of the Green Valley ones are back in class practicing away. Can't wait to take their classes. Getting on the schedule at GV is a little tricky, though. Not a lot of openings yet...

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  10. Greg~ There were alot of trainees practicing with us last night. Dray taught. Great energy! Can't wait to take their classes. New energy!

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