the time has passed fast, almost 4 weeks intense yoga classes, tomorrow we have the written exam. today we had hatha with mandi, then awesome breakfast, satsang with rajee, the guru, whose followers fall to his feed after his speech. in the lunch break we sat together & prepared for the exam, later i was … Read more
the sequence for my hatha class, fixed! saturday afternoon 4pm at blue pyramid – join if you have time! 🙂 our theoretical exam will be on thursday, so i still need to study a whole lot. but i guess i got a basic understanding, this should help too. there is still anatomy lessons with merel … Read more
the last week of the training started, on saturday morning i am going to teach my first drop in yoga class. today i arranged my sequence and thought about warm up, meditation and chanting parts and tomorrow the teachers will have a quick look at it. i actually start to feel comfortable with the poses … Read more
besides an awesome hatha class with manfred, the austrian, in the morning, we had the day off for self study. so we enjoyed arambol – rich breakfast, inspiring talks, reading a bit & feeding a puppy all at “love temple”. then meeting our girls for some raw vegan ice cream at “once in nature” followed … Read more
it’s only 1 more week to our exams, i can’t believe time passed by so fast. however we are separated in a small group of 3 people now (cari, ryan snd me) and have different classes, much more intense and private. today morning there was a big rainshower that set the shala under water so … Read more
if there is something i am sure to say already by now: this group of people is wonderful! if it’s the boys or the girls – everyone is giving his/her personal best without comparing to each other, there is always friendly and uplifting words, hugs and friendships gestures around the place and happy faces already … Read more
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