Somatic Therapy Training
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
today we had a tough vinyasa class in the morning followed by 2 lections of anatomy, discussing the different upper body muscles. but actually we couldn’t wait for noon to come, so we could all go to the beach –…