“Step your left hand to the back of your mat.”

Nope, not a typo. One of the many silly things that I have said in my yoga teaching career.

And that’s okay.

I have mixed up left and right, limbs, complete sentences, and class continued. I laughed, they laughed. I am grateful that the spaces and students that I’ve found myself with are safe for my humanity to exist. The longer you spend time with people, or in your job, or practicing a hobby, your attention will falter, your mask to the world around you will fall and another side of you will emerge. And these errors do not define you; they’re simply shards of your mosaic.

It’s important as a yoga teacher to embrace our moments of “weakness” – we are able to model to our students, in real time, the detachment that yoga encourages us to foster. We hold back from judging ourselves and choose to sit in peace. We are not better than our students, as no one is better than anyone else.