It's amazing how much yoga changes your life. It's also amazing how difficult it is to explain to people exactly how it changes your life. It's one of those things so complex and so deep that the more you explain to people the more ridiculous it sounds—until they experience it for themselves.

As a teacher, it's my duty to help my students really begin to understand all those subtleties that make yoga such a powerful practice. The trouble is, I'm not sure I understand that yet.

I know that it is, because I feel it. But that's about as far as I can get. So when people ask me outside of class (non-yoga friends or family) I find myself saying thing like. "It just does, OK?"

One of the things that makes a yoga class special for me is the teacher's ability to introduce just a little, bite-sized morsel of yogic wisdom and arrange the asana around that theme. This makes the words more powerful because I can actually feel them physically, too. Unfortunately when I try to do mimic my teachers in order to give my students that experience, I always seem to fall flat.

I'm torn between giving up until I am a more skilled communicator, or continuing to try despite one painfully obvious failure after another. Should I risk ruining my students experience so I get more practice? There's only one thing I'm certain about: The more I go to classes with amazing teachers, the better my chances are of becoming an amazing teacher someday.