Interview with a yoga teacher: Anna-Carin Tall
Question: Why did you start practicing yoga? I used to be a horse back rider an when I stopped I felt I was losing my fitness an muscular strength. So I began yoga to try and build up my stamina again…
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Somatic Therapy Training
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Float in your yamas
Every well respected yoga teacher and dedicated yoga practitioner has studied the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Patanjali presents us with the often quoted yamas and niyamas and are supposed to be a guideline for daily living, and the foundation for…
Trusting myself to trust the monkeys
I am invited by an Australian online blog to share my story about how I came to live in India. It is supposed to feature in a week or so from now, I’ll keep you posted on when that’s coming…
New Beginnings
We started another Teacher training course today and i am so happy to welcome all the new students. A very mixed group with experienced teachers as well as ‘newbies’. I feel this month we will have a lot to learn…
Time Goes By
Months feel as short as a week on a teacher training. Time goes so quickly. I came in April and its now September. It was cold and wet, now its like a european summer. Bursting blue skies with a crisp…
Happier than a Seagull
Not quite sure if it is possible: being happier than a seagull with a French fry. When I teach about ‘happiness’ and explain other people about why I practice and teach yoga – ‘because I seek lasting happiness’ – I…
Charming gardeners
Some days you just feel overwhelmed by gratitude. Today is one of these days for me. One of the students giving her exam class started her class today with the following quote from Marcel Proust: Let us be grateful to people…
Crossing Cultures
One of the most amazing things about organising the yoga & meditation teacher trainings is the great variety of people from many amazing cultures that come together. For one month, going through a life changing experience together. It is great…
Practice and all will come
A bumblebee was bumping against my window for a good twenty minutes to try to find its way out. It would vehemently flap its wings, producing actually a lot of noise, and then fall back down to the bottom of…
Healing Vibrating Thoughts
Yesterday, i attended a workshop by Naida Luna, from Bioluminescent. She ‘played’ her Crystal Singing Bowls for us, which was truly amazing. We talked about the healing effect of sounds and was reminded again of the experiments by Masuru Emoto. I…