Cultivating Awareness and Healing though Mindful Yoga Integration Today’s blog comes to us from Des Wood. Des teaches at Spira Power Yoga Tuesday’s at 8:30 am and every third Sunday at 4:30 pm. Des is also a critical care nurse. After eight years as a bedside nurse, Desiree went back to school to obtain her doctorate degree in nursing. As part of her thesis project, she conducted one of the first studies looking at helping to teach mindfulness through gentle yoga for patients

The first day is always the hardest, brand new students from all walks of life with a thousand different expectations. How do I get them excited for the learning ahead? How do I keep them excited? Over the many months of preparation leading up to teaching this course, I realized it was not excitement that I wanted to get across to my students. Rather, I want them to feel what it means to be a yoga teacher. I want them to sense the responsibility that they are undertaking. Too