6 May 2012
Yoga Immersion
Just 3 days before I embark on the journey of my yoga teacher training, I am beginning to inquire into what YOGA IS TO ME…
Having run a successful children’s yoga and arts business in NYC for 4 years and now that I am creating and teaching my own yoga enrichment program Be Yoga Be Love at several preschools in New Jersey, I have seen firsthand the benefits that yoga provides to children. Yoga nurtures a child’s development on all levels-mind, body, spirit and I am committed to bringing yoga to as many children as I can reach in my lifetime.
As far as my own practice, it has been quite a challenge to make yoga a discipline, despite the fact that after each yoga class I take, I feel so connected and at peace inside. It is the same sense I get when I see the peaceful faces of the children I teach sitting in Namaste at the end of class and connected to who they are inside.
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To me, yoga is about finding the space to be imperfect, to be patient, to accept where I am right here, right NOW. In yoga class, each asana (pose) is an opportunity for me to reflect on and practice some very essential skills that sometimes I forget during the course of my daily life…listening to my body, tuning into myself and connecting with my deeper truth.
YOGA is…connection, union, acceptance, presence, discipline and love.
Let the journey begin…
7 May 2012
Teaching versus Practicing
Teaching yoga to young children is completely different from developing my own yoga practice. While the poses are the same, the context and experience is radically different. In my kids classes, yoga is more like PLAY. Today we played “Yogi Says”, where each child got to be YOGI and choose a yoga pose for the class to do together. I used colorful photo cards of animals and other nature poses that the children are now familiar with. It was amazing to watch them jump right into the yoga poses.
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After a 30 minute practice, I lay in bed in Savasana and, for the first time, noticed the energy vibrating inside me. I was charged like a battery and just resting in relaxation was an exercise in stillness. I have never been so in tune with my body’s internal and external radar. This is what yoga is awakening in me more and more, the connection between the internal (mind) and external (body) and beyond (spirit).