After my post-Istanbul-break-down (candidate for "word of the week"! ;-) ...), I found myself very willing to do yoga on Monday, but still not good enough to take on the long bike-ride to my very favourite yoga studio in town. So, I decided to be pragmatic...
I booked 10 days at the yoga-studio next door - which is literally only 3 minutes walk from my apartment. It's PERFECT! I put on my yoga-clothes (no, we yoga-teachers don't wear them all day long ;-) ...), grab my mat and enjoy the yoga next door!
I find, that very often in yoga, we come to a point where we have to or want to let go of our ideas about how we do things. Did I think, I'd go to my favourite studio and meet friends and catch up? Of course! It just didn't work - so, I just did, what I could!
In yoga, we do, what we can. We start from where we are, not from where we should be. "Should" is the place that gets you in trouble (or even injured!), "Are" is the place that brings peace and quiet.
Where are you today?
The poses for this week are exactly the poses of last week - so, no new pics. ;-)
Montag, 28. Januar 2013
Sonntag, 20. Januar 2013
3rd week - to yoga or not to yoga...
Dear People!
I got home from my yoga teacher training in Istanbul on Monday and was so exhausted and headached, that I stayed in bed for three days. Having my "light on yoga"-project in mind, I was soon starting to feel guilty about this, thinking I should do yoga. But obviously, my body REALLY wanted to remain where it was - in the cozy comfort-zone of my bed.
One of my yoga teachers once said, "Playing the edge is an art form!" And this little sentence appears, when I look at this last week. I did yoga once only with the result of even stronger headaches - and of course I startet blaming myself for not being kind towards me. But then on the other hand, I know sometimes doing yoga can get me healthy in an instant. So, there's no "right or wrong", just a "try, fail, try, succeed".
So, maybe the word of the week (not that there's one every week ;-)! ) should be PLAYING! We don't need to beat ourselves up, when we go too far! We just need to go back and make it right the next time! And have fun with it!
Here come the new poses for this week (on which I don't look at you *gg*). All the poses from last week are in this week's program as well. The new ones are Prasarita Padottanasana I and Parivrtta Trikonasana :
I got home from my yoga teacher training in Istanbul on Monday and was so exhausted and headached, that I stayed in bed for three days. Having my "light on yoga"-project in mind, I was soon starting to feel guilty about this, thinking I should do yoga. But obviously, my body REALLY wanted to remain where it was - in the cozy comfort-zone of my bed.
One of my yoga teachers once said, "Playing the edge is an art form!" And this little sentence appears, when I look at this last week. I did yoga once only with the result of even stronger headaches - and of course I startet blaming myself for not being kind towards me. But then on the other hand, I know sometimes doing yoga can get me healthy in an instant. So, there's no "right or wrong", just a "try, fail, try, succeed".
So, maybe the word of the week (not that there's one every week ;-)! ) should be PLAYING! We don't need to beat ourselves up, when we go too far! We just need to go back and make it right the next time! And have fun with it!
Here come the new poses for this week (on which I don't look at you *gg*). All the poses from last week are in this week's program as well. The new ones are Prasarita Padottanasana I and Parivrtta Trikonasana :
Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013
The Beginning
Dear Readers,
There is a book by B.K.S. Iyengar called "Light on Yoga" in which the author shows us over 300 yoga poses. In the back of the book Iyengar suggests a 300-week program to learn all the poses shown in the book.
Well, I'll be a yoga teacher soon and want to expand my physical, mental and spiritual knowledge about yoga - which I why I began the program on 1st January 2013.
This is a blog in which I will share my experiences in the coming almost six years. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy learning all the new yoga poses ahead of me!
Here are the pictures of the poses for the first and second week (Vrksasana, Tadasana, Utthita Trikonasana, Utthita Parsvakonasana, Virabhadrasana I and II, Parsvottanasana, Salamba Sarvangasana I and Halasana - I left out Savasana in the pictures)!
Namaste,
Ursi
There is a book by B.K.S. Iyengar called "Light on Yoga" in which the author shows us over 300 yoga poses. In the back of the book Iyengar suggests a 300-week program to learn all the poses shown in the book.
Well, I'll be a yoga teacher soon and want to expand my physical, mental and spiritual knowledge about yoga - which I why I began the program on 1st January 2013.
This is a blog in which I will share my experiences in the coming almost six years. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy learning all the new yoga poses ahead of me!
Here are the pictures of the poses for the first and second week (Vrksasana, Tadasana, Utthita Trikonasana, Utthita Parsvakonasana, Virabhadrasana I and II, Parsvottanasana, Salamba Sarvangasana I and Halasana - I left out Savasana in the pictures)!
Namaste,
Ursi
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