After a lovely and relaxing day off, we were back at it this morning... Up to the shala at 7:30am for meditation and morning practice. 

We started our 2 hour morning practice as usual... a quick ohmmmm, a quick chant.... and then out of the blue, Corey (one of our amazing teachers) started calling out random students to teach each pose to the rest of the group. It was awesome and scary and I was totally not ready for it :) I wasn't called on, thank god, but the 4 or 5 who were chosen rocked it. Not kidding - they did so awesome... just spitting out sanskrit names and directing poses like yogi Eminems in a much more peaceful 8 Mile :) 

This continued in our afternoon practice as well and I definitely did get called on then - I totally messed up at first but saved it in the end. It's a pretty remarkable feat really... we've only been doing this for 5 days and we are already taking over parts of the practice. So awesome :) 

After that, we all worked on our homework book, explaining poses, verbal cues, drawing hilarious stick figures of how people are supposed to look while in each pose... they are amazing... not amazing as in super artistic, but more like - one pose looks like a yeti doing down dog or a person evolving from a lizard doing upward facing dog. So freaking funny. See photo of Jordan below - photo cred: Candace :)

I love this place, I love these people and I love yoga even more than before. 

Oh, and Thai food. I freaking love thai food. #tomyumforever