Excellent Day

Today was a remarkably short day, from 10 am till 7 pm, with an hour and a half worth of breaks. But the best part is I did my first section of dialogue in front of Bikram.

The setup of the room: in the front facing the interior of the room are five people who will actually do the posture, a few feet in front, facing them, with a microphone is the person delivering the diagloue. Bikram is on the side, and the remaining 280 plus people are watching it all (and giving wonderful support). I volunteered to do it - get it out of the way, so I can breath easily and work on future dialogue. I was about number 20 or so, the third to the last of the day. There were some good people in front of me. I was amazed, while waiting in line, I didn't get nervous. I guess it was because I was concentrating on the dialogues being delivered, and truth be known, picking them apart. Oh, today's dialogue is only about 2 or so minutes long, depending on how fast or slow the delivery is.

Well, my turn came, still wasn't nervous when I was handed the mike, but then started to shake a bit as I started. It went quite well. I botched one line a bit, but manage to salvage it. And wonderfully, Bikram's only comment was that my voice was too low! Apparently if I teach a lot of classes, I could blow my voice out -- ? There's a professional voice coach coming to speak to us on Friday, so we'll see what she has to say.

Only one yoga class today, which was tough, but went well.

All in all quite an excellent day!