The First Posting!

Hello to all you Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Instructors!

I have started this blog to create a casual and friendly support space to those in the Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis exercise teacher community. I am a Gyrotonic Master Trainer living and working in the DC metro area. Ive been teaching for 21 years sometimes in studios and now mostly on my own and want to share my stories with you and likewise hear and learn from you out there! On this cyber platform I look forward to sharing ideas about our studios or private practices, brainstorming together, commiserating over our teaching struggles and especially sharing some laughs together.
I will blog as often as possible but am depending on you too to keep the cycle moving. I have created "The Blunder of the Week" as a way to keep in touch with you but also as a way for us to stay humble. As teachers we experience blunders,whether its while we are teaching or because of something in our admin system, and if we translate these to symbols of our humanity, we may be able to share them and help others to better themselves while we do the same and make another teacher smile too!
When there is nothing too "blunderous" to report on my end, I will go back into my "blundersome" past and scrummage something up for you whether it be from my own teaching life or someone else's anonymously! Here is my blunder which happened today...nothing too exciting.

"BLUNDER OF THE WEEK"
I had a trio at 930 this morning and two of the three people are out of town. When this happens, our studio is supposed to call the single person remaining to give this person the chance to reschedule or take a private. Btw, How many of you have this kind of policy? But the client scheduled through me, and I forgot to tell the front desk so they never called her. Oops, I think that is what's called a blunder. So what did I do? What I usually do, I offered her a free class next time she comes in. Perfect is boring but...ahim.
Ok, your turn.
Friends, when posting a blunder, please post it as a separate blog, if you remember. Why? So I can find them easily in the future if I don't have time to read every single blog and find them within. Future blog award winners will be announced!
No worries if you forget, we're casj. Spell check does not like that word either? We don't have that sound in the English language and yet it is that Portughese sound which is made when saying the short form of the word "casual". Spelling suggestions?
Now for...
"MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS"
Here we can all share an embarrassing teaching gaff or client moment.
Here's mine, and I know it is one that many of you weathered instructors have already experienced, but it may help a new instructor dodge this wave of embarrassment.
It was summer and a new male client came to my then home studio(get where I'm going?) Now mind you, I had studio etiquette (how stuffy) rules posted on my site but the client obviously did not read or think about what was in store in his expansive Gyrotonic class! Yes, you guessed it. He came in shorts with that good for nothing netting in them (I mean, what does that stuff catch when you're swimming!?) and the family jewels were suddenly part of the Hamstring Series. When I asked him to wear close fitting shorts under his loose ones for the next time, he even asked me why, and I was so embarrassed that all that I could muster was, "Just because." I figured he would ask his wife or figure it out, but from then on he always came to class appropriately dressed.

"TEACHING TIP"
I will post these from time to time. Today, I keep it light.
What do you do when your clients are chatting too much? Ask them to return their concentration to their breathing pattern, which they are obviously not doing! ;)Works like a charm.

Warmly,
Alesia