Mighty Mouse

It is really important to connect with the yoga instructor. I didn't think that it would matter so much when I first started but the more I went the more I liked,  then loved the way my yoga teacher taught. She would have a fill in once in a while and they were ok, but for me it was not the same. She also had another instructor for a while and I liked him equally well but for different reasons.
My yoga instructor is a little tiny thing, and my friend and I both being above average in height dubbed her mighty mouse, in the most affectionate way. She was tough she pushed and encouraged us to find the edge and then go beyond. If we fell out of a pose then so what, our mat was the place to get messy. Every time she gives a correction I feel like she is talking to me directly, even thought she is clear across the room. Being a yoga instructor is more than just calling out poses, it is correcting and adjusting until that pose is requiring the most out of everyone.  Anyone can go to yoga and fake it and pretend to be fully engaged in a pose, but that is not where the benefits lie and at first I was lucky to just make it through a class. Once I started building some muscle tone and could actually do the first down dog without my muscles screaming at me, I started trying really hard to listen to her voice and just do it.  It is in the little course corrections, sometimes unseen and go unnoticed that the real work comes and the results are felt. Just listening to what she was telling me to do and make all the little corrections I soon started seeing results, feeling that I too might just be able to practice yoga and not fake it.
This is true for life, it is not the big things that need to be changed, it is the little course corrections that need to be made to stay on the right path. Not making them doesn't seem like a big deal at first but over time the affects of not making those changes will be seen.  I am working daily on making those small course corrections both on and off the yoga mat. I want to be true to myself and I want to reach and stretch to be the person I know I can become. I try hard to listen to that inner voice that is giving me little course corrections throughout the day, and trying hard to make those adjustments in my life.