“Their tops are made out of rubber/Their bottoms made out of springs”
In Forrest teacher training, sometimes a trainee is given the assignment to teach as someone else in order to get a particular quality into their teaching. I remember one person got the assignment to teach as a rock star, for example. Imagine Mick Jagger teaching yoga & you’ll get the idea. It was awesome.
Today I pretty much taught as an incarnation of Tigger. (“The wonderful thing about Tiggers/Is Tiggers are wonderful things/Their tops…” well, you know the rest. 
This is not exactly my current teaching goal, but whaddya gonna do? 
Somedays, one just IS Tigger. So I bounced around the studio for 3-plus hours, oh well. So Heidi would have taken me behind the woodshed for my abuse of the Breath Formula. Yeh, it happens. (And although I am a good 6 inches taller than Heidi, I have no doubt she could kick my ass any day if she put her mind to it. That girl’s got core strength.
The good news was being clued in enough to set an intention/theme of bringing play into the practice which allowed at least some productive channeling of my bounciness.
Oh, and my repeat word was “toward(s).” I am not allowed to say that word for the rest of the week. Which should make teaching interesting.
What I actually truly, non-snarkily found interesting was that I taught my class (focused on twisting, inner rotation, inner line of the legs & opening up IT band,) then took Peter’s class & it was like he just picked right up where I left off. Trust me, there was no coordination at all; we just went right into lunges, twisting & arm balances.
And Peter’s vibe finally got me calmed down. That whole “entrainment” thing where a teacher brings a class along on their mood totally works. Phew.
(But he did also say ”towards” a few extra times. However, I may just have been extra-aware of that word.
Tags: Back Bay Yoga, Daily Yoga Practice, Forrest Yoga Mentorship Program, Musings on Teaching, Teacher Training