Help Me Achieve My Dream ->>>

Let me begin by giving you a little back story.

I honestly have had NO IDEA what my actual goals are for a long time. What do I want to do when I grow up?
I thought to myself my senior year in high school "I like math, I'm going to be a math major in college. Teaching runs in my family, I'll teach math." So I got a math degree, a high school teaching degree, I added on middle school, and then threw in special ed for good measure. I realized how much I loved ASL and made a big leap to getting a masters degree to teach deaf children math.
I studied education, I lived it, I wore it on my skin, and then I taught.
Turns out that perhaps teaching is not for me.  During each of my four internships I was miserable. For six months in the classroom I was worse than miserable. And this was because of something within me, not the people I was surrounded with. So I ran away from teaching. I actually ran away and hid.

 

Two years ago this week I quit my teaching job. The first and only thing I have ever quit, because I grew up in a house where quitting was not an answer (especially with a little brother who always wanted to beat me).

 

Two years has gone by and that inner feeling that deep down inside I am a teacher hasn't left. I go back to babysitting, to educating while I am on a kayak tour, to feeling the need to educate my friends...
I am an educator. 
And then it finally came to me.
My true calling is in becoming a yoga teacher. 

I have been sitting on this feeling for well over a year. It was two years ago that I seriously started practicing yoga and became committed to becoming a better, more grounded, deeper, more appreciative, intuitive, spiritual, giving, and loving individual.
I realized today, while discussing life with my sister Mary, that I finally need to go after my dream. Think of the possibilities! I will be certified in multi-style yoga which means I will be able to teach many different classes of yoga including Vinyasa, or even SUP yoga out on paddle boards on Folly Creek. It includes yoga therapy and yoga dance as well.

Can you imagine...

                                me opening up my very own studio someday that includes classes specifically offered for deaf people? Because you better believe that I am going to learn all of the signs for the different asanas. I am going to learn as much Sanskrit as I can possibly wrap my mind around, and I will be able to pass on the actual names of poses to people to help them better understand yoga someday.

This is my dream. Can you help me achieve it? The tuition for the 9 week program is $3200. Even $5 will help. Each and every person will receive a hand written letter from me.

And if you have a dream, go get it. You only live once.