After five years of practice and three months of intense teacher training and a grueling two-and-a-half hour personalized test I received my certification to teach qigong in the lineage of the MogaDao Institute of Santa Fe. I thought that I would be elated and immediately call family and friends while shouting it out of the window of my car on the way home.
I was wrong. Although relieved and deeply happy I felt that, instead of a culmination of hard work and determination, it was a beginning. It was the opportunity to go deeper into the forms and understand them in a way that was unavailable to me while in the throes of studying. Rather than memorizing and being able to use terminology from my notes I began to feel the energy of the movements and intertwine them with my life experiences. I can now see how the hardest part of the test is after the test and becoming accountable for transmitting with the utmost care forms that can change a life.
It is said that during the test the founder of the institute reaches into your soul, takes out a lesson that you need to learn and puts it in your face. That was true. I had the good fortune of being open and vulnerable in front of a caring mentor who requires from her students excellence, the deepest core of integrity and commitment. I welcome the lessons that have inspired me and keep me learning.
So, you see that sometimes what you expect to be an end is actually a beginning…a new opportunity…a challenge…an unimaginable chance to know yourself better.
Very nice, and great work to get where you are!
Congrats!! Can’t wait to see what you do with this!
Beautiful Ellie! We are all becoming even more than we were before. I thank you for growing and for giving and teaching, and touching hearts wherever you go.