Month: May 2020

Online, personalized yoga-classes

| Edna

The word wide pandemic have changed how we interact, work and also practise yoga and spirituality. There are so many teachers streaming yoga classes online, doing wonderful contributions towards yoga.

I have concluded to offer personalized classes via Dropbox. I invite you (new-comers to yoga, prenatal or already committed yogi’s) to drop me a message. We will then have an online consultation taking into account your medical history, current- or past injury and mental health and weight-loss/fitness needs. You will then receive personalized video classes to practise in your own time and privacy of your home.

Contact me for your consultation and enjoy the opportunity of a yoga class designed for you. Mommy’s to be and new mommy’s most welcome. Make use of this opportunity to train with an experienced teacher.

You will work through limitations you experience on the mat and renew your asana practice.

My yoga-style is rooted in Hatha-instructions, focusing on alignment and holding of asanas, within a flow-style practice and I hold certifications in the following:

My yoga journey started in 1998:

  • Hatha Yoga (The Iyengar Way) 200H
  • Ashtanga Yoga Advanced 500H
  • Atma Vikasa Yoga 200H
  • Therapy Yoga 200H
  • Pranic Healing – First Level
  • Lifeskills Councelor
  • Massage Therapist – Swedish, Therapeutic, Acupressure, Thai
  • BA Degree – Health Care Management – Nutrition

Namaste,

Edna

Introduce yourself: “Good day, I am..”

| Edna

2012 100

Asmita – am I this

am I that

who am I

if I no longer do the things I used to do?

In modern society one often have to market oneself for just about anything and everything that we aspire to do. Be it professional, physical, mental or even in finding love–  you have to show yourself. Rip and analyse who you are. Is this the modern idea of self-knowledge? I believe it is. Pull labels out of a hat that suits your appearance – ones that validates the lines on your face and the clothes you wear, the food you eat and the entertainment you enjoy. And don’t forget your intelligence, after all –  who wants to be dull in the eyes of the judgmental beholder! Remember that you are always fun to be around. . …   .truthful and ever graceful just to put the cherry on top!

The above is the dense thought patterns that we sometimes fall trap to. It is limiting the Spirit that is whole and everything. This causes pain and submerges the mind. The simple Self reflection that reflects at the Self from a calm, clear lake becomes rippled and distorted. Thought patterns and analysis like this,  mostly driven by fear or the search for love and acceptance and opportunities in a materialistic world.

Only when the mind is still, can one reflect on one’s own beauty.  It is not about labels in a hat.  Rather about dropping into your own darkness, finding the seed of nothingness inside – the zero point of infinite possibilities, infinite compassion, infinite vibration.  The yogi is in constant self-study; in constant reflection. It takes discipline, a physical and spiritual fitness, to stay clear from chitta vrtti, from limiting oneself. By visiting the pain that Asmita (klesa) brings, the knowledge becomes the known. All lessons in life are valuable.  Knowing lessens and break the ego and the walls that prevents compassion.  We are all on this journeys, individually and collectively.

Fill the seat (asana) of your own nature – the Omni-Nature that is Prana, the Oneness that connects us all. Only then can Spirit be free to manifest from a Higher Consciousness. For we are Everything! I am not this (a South African, British, French…) nor that (a receptionist, lawyer, agent..),

I am willingly nothing

I am the world and I am not this world.  I am part of a collective play without becoming the story told.

(Photo by: Lettism, Little Theatre Yoga, 2012)