Nov

29

By Ashtanga Yogi

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Yoga Blog to Yoga Teacher Website

September 2009 I started a journey that when finished will see me changed into a qualified yoga teacher, all being well, it is my intention to succeed in this journey. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” (Ursula K. LeGuin), it’s a quote that often emerges into my mind at certain times, and this is naturally one of those times. Why do I say this, because I never started this journey with the goal of becoming a teacher, although by becoming a teacher it will be nice to be in a position to share yoga with others. The key driving reasons were for personal development, and to deepen my knowledge and understanding of yoga first and foremost for myself. As I say it was always good that I could share with others what has so profoundly enriched and changed my life numerous ways, namely yoga and what better position to start teaching yoga from than a more deep understanding of yoga and myself.

It is now time to evolve this blog site into a more professional and “yoga teacher” style website, but I shall still blog on this site, but the content will be organised differently, it will all still be there, but I might review and rework my posts and articles. I will write with yoga students in mind more than just friends and interested people.

So expect to see changes and fluctuations in this websites while the evolution progresses.

May

11

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Categories: Mandala Yoga Ashram

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Hatha Yoga – Creating Space (review)

Yesterday I returned from a residential hatha yoga course (“Creating Space” hosted at the Mandala Yoga Ashram).  This turned out to be an excellent opportunity for me to get to know one of the teachers on the upcoming Yoga Teacher Training course. As always meeting interesting people is always a part of these trips, with some good chats on all levels, and plenty of humour.

In terms of yoga, the concept of counter pose was very interesting, I had previously understood this to be placement of a posture that balances the previous one, for example, placing  a forward bend after a backward bend. What I hadn’t considered before, was placing a static posture after a dynamic one, or balancing the pingala and ida (vibrant and relaxing energies) using postures in certain ways. Not to mention what do you want out of the practice, you might want to end up in a relaxed state before bed, so working toward more gentle and calming postures towards the end of the sequence can be desirable.