Conor is 17 this year and he is growing up physically and emotionally. With adulthood comes so many new hopes, goals and new experiences. Conor and I have decided to take a post secondary course together this winter. This allows Conor to experience a college course and me to guide from the side. Conor still struggles with non conventional behaviors and anxiety. He needs supports to transition and keep on task. He is excited to go and learn at this new school. He has grown and learned so much in the last years of homeschooling. They have gone by fast. I am excited to see him grow and learn more.
So what to do? What next? What kind of work does he want to do? What are his interest? Also weighing in this horrible statistic, for people on the spectrum the unemployment rates are 73 per cent. I want to find some realistic goal for Conor that he would want to do and like to do. Conor will still keep a focus on his art and learning to market and sell his own work. He continues to develop as an artist and is working on gaming and marketing his own persona and you tube channel.
Conor is so focused on fitness and he is a pro at meditation so yoga teacher training did seem a natural fit for him. Yeah! Enter Southwest Institute of Healing Arts which is an accredited post secondary institution. We will be at the Spirit of Yoga building. We went to open house in September. Conor loved it! Studio school space has recently moved and the new location is lovely. So here we go. Conor goes to yoga teacher training and so do I! Stay tuned!
As we prepare for this course I have tried to find a teacher for Conor who will come and work for him on the nomenclature of yoga and helping him with a good foundation. Hard to find that person under the restrictions of my grant which is now not allowing for personal trainers. So here I come again. I am and I can. Conor has two months to prepare for and get ready . Here are some of the tools we are using and will continue to practice yoga an hour a day at home and at the gym doing movements and learning the positions and breathing.
Oak Meadow Health and Fitness is a huge resource for us. This Waldorfian ( I know that isn't a word) based curriculum breaks it down physical, social, mental/emotional and spiritual wellness. That us, that is the nomenclature we need to learn. We are still using The Mind Up Curriculum which is a mindfulness brain focus method of strategies that Goldie Hawn has supported with her foundation. thehawnfoundation.org
We have been working hard at learning the movements and breathing of yoga. Conor is doing great and really likes it. He says he can see himself working at and teaching others how to meditate. This makes me so glad. He is a little worried about communicating during teaching but he said today he will draw up cards to help him remember the next movements and words to say, so he is creating his own supports and anticipating his needs and adapting for his known weakness. This is so exciting and it gives me great joy to share this adventure. I am thrilled to learn yoga teacher training too.
