What Are Your Yoga Goals For 2008

[Administrator]

Hi everyone. It's Harlan Kilstein inviting you to join
in the discussion of yoga goals for 2008.

So I'm going to go first....

My goal this year is to attend Shiva Rea's teacher training
program.

I enjoy tremendously my discussions with Shiva and her
husband James Bailey. As Shiva describes herself, "she just
a wandering mystic."

As we all are.

I hope my studies with Shiva will deepen my own yoga practice.

I still have a looooong way to go.

Besides, as I told Shiva, my goal is to be the first person asked to
leave her program for asking too many questions.

Ok, just kidding. I'll try to behave.

I'm looking forward to hooking up with Shiva and her gang at the
San Francisco yoga journal conference.

Now, would you be so kind as to share YOUR yoga goals for 2008.

Namaste.

Harlan

[Big Yoga Guy]

My primary Yoga goal for 2008 is to score a "3" in all seven tests of the Functional Movement Screen. What's the Functional Movement Screen and what does it have to do with Yoga? I thought you'd never ask. The FMS is a series of 7 tests designed to identify the weaknesses and asymmetries in your body. Now, I've been studying Yoga for 10 years and couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to do certain things in Yoga. A simple 45 minute session changed all that. Imagine that! Now, since Hatha Yoga deals primarily with your physical well-being and the FMS identifies your body's weaknesses and asymmetries and provides you with a customized plan to correct them, I found scoring a "3" in all seven tests, fitting and proper to be my Yoga goal for 2008. A perfect score is "21" and I'll keep you posted when I accomplish this.

NAMASTE.

[loveyoga]

As a fairly new yoga teacher and I just want to push myself to know more. I completed my TT with yogaworks in NYC about a year and a half ago and I have been teaching at a gym since May. I really want to continue my studies in yoga and try to balance a full-time job as a public school teacher and have a social life. How others manage I still do not know. In any case, I'm going to continue to push forward. I have gotten a really great response to my classes and I want to be able to give my students more.
Happy New Year everyone!

Loveyoga

[bosco13]

Years come and go, but the goals remain the same:

to be:

more open
more loving
more compassionate.

My life's work.

Namaste

[YogaPaula]

My goal this year is to continue to spread light one person and one heart at a time in a sometimes very dark world and to reach more and more people with yoga. - Yoga Paula

[pegasus]

I thought my goal this year was going to be to attend advanced TT at a RYS in my area. But over the holidays, I did some serious soul searching and realized that I was pushing too hard to try to make it happen, and had to let it go.

I now feel that my goal for this year should be simply to practice LIVING MY YOGA, whether I am teaching yoga classes, or working a day job, or dealing with my teenagers, or watching my husband go off to war.

I wish you all the greatest blessings in 2008!

[Administrator]

These are wonderful. Keep them coming.

Namaste.

Harlan

[Goji]

Namaste

I am relatively new to earning an income in this way, for my employment in the past has been from working different jobs that have a wage.

So, my yoga goal is to earn a living doing what I love, sharing laughter yoga. In addition to this, leading classes on Tibetan laughter yoga and nude tibetan laughter yoga.

Laughter can be incorporated into any form of yoga, you just laugh on the outbreath of the movement. It extends to exhalation of the breath while releasing endorphins and saratonin.

Much Laughter
Goji
Laughter Medicine : Corporate Stress Management Training & Laughter Therapy

[yogabyterren]

This is my first posting on BYYB and I am so excited to be a part of a supportive and motivating community of like-minded yoga teachers and enthusiasts. I am a brand new teacher and received my certification in Nov 07!! My 2008 goal is to stay focused and motivated on building my yoga business and to continue to learn and share my passion with others.

I found the recent newsletter to be very motivating because it is my goal to be a stay at home mom while also earning an income teaching private yoga lessons. Yoga is my future and 2008 is going to bring great things.

Namaste,
Terren

[yogipam]

I am very excited about my yoga goals for 2008. 1) I recently started teaching 3 privates per week (along with my group classes); my goal is to add to that so that I am teaching a minimum of 15 privates per week. 2) I also completed a training this summer in muscle testing and muscle activation and how to use these techniques in yoga to discover weaknesses and asymmetry in the body and correct them. Made a HUGE difference in my body and I have not been back to the chiropractor since! I plan to bring these techniques to more yoga students via workshops and hopefully an instructional video/DVD. 3) To live my yoga, with more consciousness in all areas of my life. 4) To bring lightness, positive energy and joy to the lives of my yoga students through my teaching.

Everyone -- have a wonderful start to a GREAT new year!

Namaste.