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Yoga teacher training is already harder than expected, and we haven’t even started. Not officially anyway. Before our first session, we had to read three books (Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff, Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar, and The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind by Richard Freeman) and write a reflection paper on each. It feels a lot like high school, except that I actually care about what I’m learning and I’m not cutting any classes.
I expected endless Namastes and Shavasana shoulder rubs, but this is rapid-fire instructions, tears, and personal revelations. Ten twenty-hour weekends in a row. What was I thinking?
On our first day of training, which is also the first day of June, and National Dare Day, Cadence, Branches’ owner, lets us in and I suddenl
