you've been served

well, okay, i know it's not supposed to be a competition, but sometimes it's really hard to remind myself... this morning in yoga class, i was actually struggling a fair amount, since i guess i haven't been keeping up my practice enough during the recent busy times at work. which wouldn't have been so bad, except there was a new couple that has started showing up in the last few weeks that were there, and, well, they're basically much better than i am. didn't really put me "to shame," per se, but certainly impressed me, to say the least. sure, there's always people more advanced than you, but i had sortof gotten used to the idea that i had been doing this longer than even the instructors at the studio i go to here, and was a little proud of myself for the couple of one or two things that i could do that few if any of the others could. of course, all good things eventually get jolted back to reality.

i talked to him a bit in the locker room afterwards (though for the life of me i can't remember his name), and i guess he's leaving in a couple of weeks to go through the "teacher training" program in hong kong that duncan and marielle did.

i still really think i'd like to try teaching someday. maybe i really will get to spend some time at the astanga research institute in mysore after i finish my phd. who knows.