No, seriously. He is.
I’m still working on finding the beginner’s perspective in my teaching as I prepare for my upcoming course. And it’s a learning process. And I’m grateful to have an incredibly supportive husband who is helping me learn these lessons.
My husband has amazingly agreed to be in several videos that I’m putting together for the series. And he’s perfect for it. He doesn’t practice yoga and he’s maybe taken one of my classes in all the time that I’ve been teaching.
He is definitely not a ringer in case you were wondering.
We were recording the second video the other day and it didn’t start off as smoothly as the first go round. He wasn’t sure what he was supposed to be doing. He fumbled a bit. Leaned left when I said right. Maybe even got a little frustrated or embarrassed. It wasn’t that far into the session.
We started the recording over. I changed some of my words and I went a little slower. There were still places throughout the sequence where he wasn’t sure what to do, but nothing major and we kept rolling.
His feedback at the end was that for future videos, he wanted to know ahead of time what poses we would be doing.
I thought about that for a moment, but what I decided was that I shouldn’t give him a sneak peek.
I am watching him the whole time. I can SEE when he pauses or gets a questioning look on his face, or isn’t sure of what to do with one limb or another. And that’s how I know that MY words aren’t landing right. That I need to say something different to get my point across.
It’s MY job to adjust, not his job to know where we are headed.
And so, he won’t be getting a cheat sheet or a run down of what is on the agenda, because I want these videos to be authentic. And I want to learn too. So I can help all of my students, wherever they are in their yoga journey.
And for these invaluable insights into a beginner’s mindset, I am grateful. And to my husband, I am grateful (and deeply indebted). I couldn’t do this without him. My husband really is better than your husband.
