Samasthiti

Nataraja @ The Practice , Canggu, Bali I love that line. a friend of mine introduced me to it. He came for a yoga session and told me post the class that he feels like he fits well in his skin and clarified that it was a dutch way of saying, he feels good, in a much deeper and wholesome way than : I feel good. Which is a beautiful state of mind and body to be in, but also a lovely thing to hear from your student as a teacher. I feel extremely happy when folks attend my sessions and come back to say that, there's a sense of omg, i did this for them - which is mostly an inflated ego speaking - but there is then a deeper sense of i "enabled" this for them - didn't do it - i helped create an opening or a space that they could move into and it was their choice, it was in their power to bring themselves there. They did it for themselves. Anyway, coming back to the point - fitting well in your skin.  I take that to mean a deep sense on contentment at your presen...

No posts for almost a year and then two in a day :) Well, like I said when you sit down to write and there's so much to give, it flow naturally without you having to think about what the topic of this particular post should be. It's sunday night and as i sit here amazingly sore from my weekend workshop at Pure Asia Square, I am conscious that I need to prepare for my upcoming Monday class. My weekly yoga classes are a little bit more streamlined now : there's a tracking system that makes people accountable for signing up and showing up for class : and makes me accountable for having a class plan in place. The last two years by yoga classes were more or less  let's see who attends and what they need and I'll think of a sequence depending on the needs of the class. But now, I've been asked to teach a vinyasa class - so the style is fixed - but what's not fixed is what i can with it! I've said this many times before, I'm a vinyasa baby : using y...

As always, I am writing on this blog after ages - after too long unfortunately. I would open a new post and not know what to write. I would sit there for inspiration to hit me, for all that I was feeling and experiencing to flow through as words on this white screen - some times it would, and more often than not, it would be too personal to post :) So as always I have multiple saved drafts that I haven't been able to post. My yoga journey has more or less remained stagnant - there are no breakthrough asanas I conquered, simply because I wasn't looking to conquer anything - there was nothing I was working towards with a single minded focus over the last couple of months. My goal is still to get the shirsasana - that I've promised to achieve by the end of this year. But, I've grown more comfortable with what my body can and can not do - I no longer breakdown after a class where yogis in a Vinyasa 2 class jump up and down while I sit on my mat not being able to t...