Samasthiti

(Saturday sky in Singapore as i write this post, it's just.... perfect)  I knew sometime in January this year that I wanted to gift myself a yoga teacher training. Take a month off to go learn about  yoga. I wanted to do it just for the love of yoga. I have no intentions of becoming a teacher anytime soon, if ever. I spoke to few of my teachers, read extensively on the style of yoga I'd like to practice, where I'd like to spend 30 days, how expensive is it.. I read a lot, spent hours looking up schools and eventually settled on a school called High Vibe Yoga. They're located in Ubud in Bali and the lead teacher is Emily Kuser. One of my all-time favourite yoga teachers, Leigh, trained with Emily and had only great things to say. I wasn't looking for a Bikram style practice and wanted to select a school that didn't treat yoga as a business and High Vibe was exactly that. Leigh spoke highly of Emily and her philosophy around yoga and I just knew. Like with...

My 2 year long membership with Hom yoga ended on Thursday, December 2nd. I was dreading the day that would happen. It did. And like everything else, I survived it. I woke up that morning, went to the morning class, went for the lunchtime class and almost went for the evening class, but had a Christmas dinner to go to and so couldn't make it for the third class. I bid the studio at Boat Quay goodbye and as I climbed down those stairs, I looked back one last time and heaved a sigh. I'm dramatic like that. I'll obviously go back to the studio now and then to meet my teachers, maybe sign up sometimes for their workshops as well or who knows sign up for a membership :) But for now, it's a goodbye. I already have a membership at Pure Yoga, which I have mixed feelings about, and it doesn't make (financial) sense for me to renew my Hom yoga one. Plus, I am also going to be in Bali for a month in Jan to go learn how to become a yoga teacher at High Vibe Yoga  (more about th...