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My Yoga Story

08/12/2012 19:04
  Here is a story I thought I would tell at the very beginning and here I find myself telling it at the very end. This is how Stephen and I met:   Back in 2009, a few months before doing my own foundational teacher training in New York, I had started working at a media agency in...

The Celebration

08/12/2012 17:37
  Ironically the last couple of days at Yoga Thailand we were without power (electricity , not yogic power). This is how our last full day of teacher training begins – no light, no fans in the yoga shala, no toaster, no internet. So for our last 24 hours of TT, we are being tested in our...

How Teaching Teaches Us Effort and Surrender

03/12/2012 13:04
  The teacher training is slowly coming to an end. Time is now flying and I really don't want to think about going home just yet. Luckily I have been distracted by my two lectures on methodology, or more specifically, on how to teach yoga to beginners or how to begin to teach yoga. I'm so...

Interconnectedness

01/12/2012 14:01
  When I was in my 200 hour teacher training, I was told a Buddhist story about the Bengali teaboy. A Buddhist lama was traveling to teach in Tibet and he brought a Bengali teaboy with him. The teaboy was hopeless, totally unreliable and clumsy and probably even lying and stealing from the...

The Male Principle in Yoga

28/11/2012 17:43
  A word about the guys: Out of the 39 trainees, only 5 are men. Which is not unusual in the yoga world. Men that have never done yoga, usually think it's something for softies. I have to say that however, most men that I have met in yoga are usually very masculine. That doesn't...

Trying to Be So Good

27/11/2012 22:01
  The tension before the final exam is palpable. After meals everyone is rushing off to their rooms or to their study groups to review philosophy, anatomy and alignment principles. Everyone wants to be prepared and to do so good.   This reminds me of a story Stephen once told us...

Dropping the Story

25/11/2012 21:47
  When I started doing yoga, my body was overly flexible, and what was worse, I had no idea what that meant. I didn't know that most of my lower back pain was due to my genetically inherited hyperextensions. It took a long time for me to build up the strength to, literally, hold things...

On the Subject of Meditation

24/11/2012 18:14
Most of us struggle with meditation. Often that's also due to misunderstandings such as, you should eliminate all thoughts to be in the proper meditative state, or, you have to be have stilled your thoughts in order to meditate. (And let it just be said here, meditation is one of the many yogic...

Dance With It

23/11/2012 18:26
  I feel like today was pretty packed with information. So here's an attempt to break it down once more.   This morning Stephen lectured about the loops of energy in the body, a great tool to set up our alignment in the asana practice. However, finding the loops of energy in your...

Fearless

22/11/2012 21:24
  Just a quick one to end this day which came with so much abundance. Today was our second day off from TT Thailand. And today I finally brushed all the stupid excuses aside and learned how to ride a scooter. If I cannot get over the fear of headstand, I can at least get over this. So I...

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