Today is Thursday 24th September (2009) and in a few hours I will be traveling to the Mandala Yoga Ashram for my first residential weekend on their 2 year yoga teacher training course. Before long I will be at the ashram and meeting the 22 other prospective teachers and forming relationships.

My pre-course home work is done and I can forget about my move to Cheshire for a few days. Life is very full at the moment, moving on the 17th October, starting a new job with more responsibility, and having to prepare two workshops for early November. At the moment I’m hoping I can get everything done, including the home work from this weekend and the October weekend (weekend after I move). If you were to see everything I’m needing to do between now and the end of the year, you would want to take me away for a nice holiday in January, any offers? lol

Since July 2008 I have moved twice, and next month I move again, so I’m feeling a little displaced and unsettled at the moment. I would really like to develop a social life and a group of friends; however, once I am moved I should be able to do that, and the yoga teacher training course has plenty of people, so I am hoping that I will feel less and less like a spare part on the shelf as the rest of the year unfolds.

So I wonder what the course and my life it will be like, hopefully I will get time to share my journey with you.

This month has seen me sign up for a yoga teacher training course (YTTC) with the Mandala Yoga Ashram and join the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). The YTTC starts on September 25th 2009 and runs for 2 years part time residentual.

Thursday afternoon I shall be visiting the Mandala Yoga Ashram for a Hatha yoga course which runs until Sunday.  Although I have been on to classes, workshops and retreats, I have not been on a yoga course before, so it should be interesting. The content of the course looks interesting but it will also be useful to help me decide if I want to undertake the Yoga Teacher Training Course they offer. The deadline for applications is the 30th of this month, with interviews in June.