Home Study for Heart of Vinyasa Yoga School
Dear Warriors—
Can you believe we are officially starting our home study portion of our time together? Are you ready to do your work? Remember, the effort you put into this program determines the benefits you will receive from it.
Helpful hints: set aside a few hours per day to read, take notes from your readings to prepare for your writing assignments, use index cards to make flash cards to learn the terminology, practice the flow- use cards to memorize the flow also…tackle this work on a daily basis. Embrace it, absorb it.
Daily Requirements:
THIS WORKS STARTS June 1, 2022 but since you registered early you can begin now.
1) Keep a gratitude journal starting June 1, 2022 (or as soon as you want) through July 6, 2022. I will check it off for daily entries, but I will NOT be reading them, so feel free to let it all go on the pages, dig deeply and open the gates of gratitude.
2) Do a daily meditation practice. Start with 10 minutes and see if you can increase to 20 minutes before our time together. Feel free to journal about your meditation practice, and the exercises from the book Meditation with Intention (see required reading list below for more information).
3) During the home study period (JUNE 1, 2022- JULY 6, 2022 or sooner) work up to a 6 day per week asana (physical postures) practice—either in person, livestream or at home practice. Practicing to the Gratitude Flow counts! Please note —Mysore Ashtanga minimum of twice weekly. (New to Mysore Ashtanga? Check out our tutorial videos in the portal.)
4) Chant everyday. Download them here.
5) Review the vocabulary/terminology list.
6) Complete the written assignments.
You have the option to also do VLOG (send a video answering the questions) and submit. We have a small IPAD at the shala you can use to record your VLOG if you don’t have access to any equipment that records video.
7) Complete the required reading.
I am here for you…take this one step at a time. There is no pass/fail here but a wonderful journey and lifelong practice. Organize your time, enjoy this! Don’t freak out—that won’t be helpful here, but breathing and focus will.
As we get closer I will create a SLACK group and invite you. You all can get to know each other, discuss your journey, arrange for group zoom study sessions, etc. I will check in with you regularly here.
We will be posting your head shots at the studio with your permission, please let me know if you are ok with this. Please send me your head shot by May 15, 2022 if you have not yet sent this .
In service, and with much gratitude,
Sandee
My pronouns are: She/Her/Ella