Yoga can be learned at home by following instructions from authentic books or CDs. Yoga is kind of exercise that needs synchronization of body, breath, and awareness aimed towards health and self transformation. However, while trying to learn yoga at home by oneself, emphasize should be laid more on personal safety than on anything else. … Read more
“Yog” or popularly known term “yoga” means union or process of joining. Yoga is joining of awareness which is otherwise fragmented due to constant interference of thoughts emotions and ego. With integration of awareness, yoga brings about corresponding integration in body and it’s chemistry. Thus yoga works on you not only on physical level through … Read more
yeah, we all made it!! so proud of everyone. we are now yoga teachers! thanks to merel who made this great experience possible, she is a very special woman. it was a great course and i learnt so much more than i even dreamt of. i cannot even grasp it yet, guess i will realize … Read more
today morning and afternoon both, ryan and cari held a hatha class instead of our teacher mandi. so also mandi’s regular students were coming and attending the session. both did a very good job, ryan was doing his own personalized variation of a vinyasa in his hatha sequence and was talking very confident. cari was … Read more
we had our exam today, it was really nice – i felt prepared, and so all 3 of my group passed. i didn’t have to study too much because the whole topic is so interesting to us that we would talk about that stuff anyways in the evening or weekends. never thought i would make … Read more
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