the first weeks in anatomy we were going over the skeleton, muscles and other tissues in the body as well as their functions. now we are starting to learn/repeat the body systems like function of the heart, lungs, oxigen exchange in the body etc. merel who studied medicin and ayurvedic medicin is perfect cast for … Read more
today we started our day instead of asanas with cleansing processes. we cleaned out our eyes, nostrils and… yes, our stomachs! it was actually hillarious: 30 people standing aside a lake at 7 am in the morning not able to imagine they are gonna bath their eyeballs in salty water or shoving a rubber stick … Read more
today my group was sitting together to discuss our exam class, we’ll have 2 hours for 4 people – so each 30 mins, traditional hatha sequence. i got the last part: standing/balancing positions followed by savasana, pranayama practice & chanting. now i need a nice set up of asanas which should make about 20 mins. … Read more
today we decided on a yoga style for our exams, i will prepare a traditional hatha class for the students. it is fullmoon, and we are sending laterns with little notes on things that we want to let go up in the dark sky. it’s a beautiful and freeing gesture. sunday will be rest day … Read more
today we had the opportunity to get some of the most important literature about yoga, a bookstore salesman came by our place and we made some quite big shopping. in the evening we had a meditation. we all received a mirror and a candle and had to look at ourselves. the outcome was quite different … Read more
my personal favorite is the philosophy class, so i’m glad we are given a daily dose of one hour with yogesh. today we learnt that the word asana means “sit comfortably” in sanskrit. yogis cannot be concentrated in long meditation sessions, if their back hurts or they have lack of control over their bodies. there … Read more
as i already mentioned yesterday, we get a bit tired with all exercise, studying and emotions. any of the teachers support us a lot by remembering us always about the opportunity to stay strong. stay in one pose longer, it’s just the mind that gets wesk or try this pose, imagine it first and just … Read more
in the 2nd week obviously the energy goes down, everybody is tired from working on so many levels – but it has a great effect: i cannot even eat as much as i burn. although the included food is really rich, delicious & nutritious, today i had to walk to a little shop in the … Read more
after the nice weekend studying and beach, today was a pretty intense start into week number two with about 4,5 hours of yoga in total. very interesting was our first teaching attempt in the class called “art of teaching”: we were all preparing warm up & sun salutations and had to teach the class this … Read more