The pitch sounded hilarious: put someone in an astronaut’s suit and run them around town doing normal activities, including a few yoga poses. This was so up my alley, how could I resist?

Yoga has exploded in Seattle as in much of the country. For every coffee stand, there is at least one yoga studio lurking nearby. With so many places offering yoga, how do you decide who would be the best teacher for you?

In 1999 I seriously injured my sacroiliac. I had been practicing yoga for 13 years and given my strength, flexibility and ability to do “big poses,” I wondered how I could have hurt myself doing something so mundane as picking up my 3 year old daughter.

“Ohmygod, is that what I’m supposed to do? Is this what people expect me to teach?” “I am SO mundane!” This is a reaction I had just last week after reading a workshop description that went something like this: “Learn to raise the prana of the hara to awaken and open the heart chakra to it’s fullest potential!”. Yikes! After 18 years of yoga, I still wonder, am I deep and esoteric enough to teach?