Yoga is autodidactic and experiential to the core, inside and out! That’s a lot of why I love it: it’s not utter bs like most “learning” in America, especially in schools. Empty, de-experientialized (think nclb) curriculum in schools begets a culture of empty, disembodied internet-addicted youth in our “care”.
Don’t even get me started with what’s happened to human bonding and attachment since the dawn of the cell phone and social media took COMPLETE hold. Not too long ago, I left schools — teacher and once was school social worker — so that I could AGAIN value teaching and learning.
I did this pre-Covid by few years to focus on mySelf during menopause. Yoga became my everything, again. But this time, I wasn’t just studying and doing asana all over NYC, I was living in Sacramento (don’t get me started with this either!) teaching yoga to adults for the first time, as most of my NYC teaching was with kids. I left Sac Public Schools for the same reasons anyone leaves Public School jobs anywhere in America: they’re mostly bloody awful and only the toxic survive!
Sad but true, so I did us both the favor and tapped out end of the 2018 school year. I did this in service to Self Care, but also as my quiet protest in service to REAL student centered learning. Yoga is SCL, so now, on other side of menopause (don’t get me started!!!), I am incredibly grateful and pleased that I moved to The Pedagogy of Yoga.
I am also pretty lucky to have had some incredible teachers along the way. The article below inspired me to dig back into my roots, Das Camp Critical Pedagogy 🙂 and its’ OG, one of modern histories great liberators, Paulo Freire.
Shalom and thanks for reading,
