Here’s the funny thing about teaching, or at least about teaching for me. It’s incredibly inconsistent. Last week rocked, today sucked. I don’t know if it is the million degree heat, (my car said 107 degrees when I left work), or that the kids are tired, but today was rough. I had to contact six families after school because of behavior challenges. It felt impossible to stay positive when all I wanted to do was pull my hair out. I felt like I tried everything and nothing worked. Relax. Relax, damn it!
Enter hot yoga. 60 minutes of pure, power hour bliss. It’s so funny that the very activity that scared me so much a couple months ago is now the secret to my after work sanity. I walk in stressed, I walk out calm, happy, a million miles removed from the rest of my day. I even like it so much that I’m recruiting teachers at work to join me. If you have hot yoga near you– you should try it too!
One of my favorite hot yoga rituals is to pick something to concentrate on for the length of the class. Sometimes it’s my strained neck or my weak knee, other times its a little mantra. Today was stay positive. After what felt like such a negative day, I needed this. Hopefully, it will transfer over to a more positive tomorrow as well! Let’s hope so…
