Isla Mujeres

Arriving in the evening at Cancun airport, I got transferred via bus and ferry directly to the Isla de mujeres where the 200hour Yoga Teacher Training started.
We had a beautiful multi-villa housing complex were I lived with two room mates. One girl from Sweden, the other one from the US. The other students were also all girls from around the world.
The villa is located in the middle of the very thin island, wich allowed me to watch the sunrise on the east side in the morning and the sunset on the westside in the evening. I still had the Costa Rican sleeping rythm, wich made me wake up every morning at 6, so I could visit maybe 8 out of 15 sunrises.
The physical practice started every morning at 7:30, were we came together for meditation followed by a VERY strong 2 hour class. Surely the most intense classes I ever participated in. It felt very good afterwards though, when we got served the delicious breakfast buffet.
After a small break were I mostly had a swim at our cute beach 2 min from the house, we had Anatomy and Yoga Philosophy class.
Around 1:30 pm lunch was set and we had our main break until 4pm when the next classes of principals started.
Dinner was after sunrise around 7:30pm.

I was so impressed by the kitchen team wich created always changing super delicious dishes. The variety and creativity of vegetarian and vegan options were amazing.

My body transformed from day to day, after one week I had clearly better balance and overall strength. Through the anatomy classes I could understand my body and the source of my pain better.
In the mornings my back is mostly very sensitive and stiff, but together with my teacher Stephania I figured out wich moves to make to stretch the right muscles wich cause this imbalance.

We started on hands teaching from day one in small groups of 3 and had to teach little flows wich then step by step got longer until our final flow with ~40 minutes. Also we had a written exam on the last day with all the theory wich got pumped into us.

The graduation ceremony was lovely. We created a flower mandala with local flowers while getting our certificates handed over. Then we collected the flowers and let them swim at our favourite beach. When we came back there was a guy playing Violine for us while we had dinner. That night most of us went out and had some fun at a close by beach club.

Overall I'm really proud of myself to have accomplished this intense training!
Now it's on me to keep on practicing to become a good teacher. So you are all very welcome to join my class in future 😊.

The island was soo nice! Finally some waters wich could reach close to Greece/Chalkidiki beaches 🙃. Still I didn't get to know even one single greek person on my travels... Maaany germans though.

Some of us extended two more nights and stayed at Selinas Hostel. There I met two guys from Hannover wich had kind of the same plan as me to discover more of the state Quintana Roo. Chelsey, a Canadian girl from the training also joined and so the four of us rented a car for a 4-day roadtrip:

-Cenotes around Cancun
-Tulum
-The Bacalar Lagoon
-The great Maya temples of CalakmulLue lisää