Don’t Look at Their Faces

And other lessons I learned from teaching yoga

Don Cross
Don Cross
Nov 2 · 10 min read
Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash

I’m about to have a panic attack. Why in the world am I doing this? Those were my thoughts one particular Monday evening in August 2016. I was standing awkwardly at the front of a small yoga studio as students filed in one by one, unrolling their mats onto the cork floor.

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Don Cross

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Husband, computer programmer, yoga teacher, cat servant. https://github.com/cosinekitty

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