The Teacher training is one of my year's planned "crisises". The request to allow your teaching to become totally transparent while holding the space for a group to find their own voices is immense. This 10 days together is not about creating "mini-me's". The time together is to allow the space to sink in and experience ourselves while simultaneously sharing what we find. And as they breakdown their notions, so do I, and my teaching totally shifts.
And I probably say this every teacher training, but this is the best group ever. They are totally fearless. Their voices are blooming, their laughter is rich and their understanding is deep. All of them are natural yogis and yoginis. And they are already teachers, they just needed a little nudge.
And I get to play den mother. My main job is to see, nurture and identify where I can be most helpful to their process, not in reproducing my own in them. The creative dance of offering information without advice, without attachment to its being taken.
My dad used to accuse me of asking his opinion just so I would be able to move into the opposite direction. He was probably right, as I seemed to have been born mistrusting authority. And this of course makes it even more awkward as and fragile as I hold the position of authority in this context, but only seriously and long enough to help others discover their own inner authors.
I am not sure that they could know how much they are helping me. How their willingness and bravery allows me to see more clearly. We all come together to help each other and there are rarely any accidents.
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