18 November 2012
5 November 2012
3 November 2012
27th October we worked with Lesley Dike.. i love my Anatomy & she kept me totaly engaged from start to end... I also start Physio with her on Nov 15th on my hip, its still no better despite the wisdom of Peter Blackaby.. sadly
We spent a day with Durga Devi the Jivamukti advanced teacher from NY i loved how she took us straight off into a really long balasana followed by a face down tadasana... the way each teacher we meet has different ideas & notions just facinates me, & though they can't all be right, I have taken from each of them my own perspective on these yoga poses, I do believe you shouldn't teach a posture if you don't know why you are teaching it, going through the motions when a yoga teacher just seems so wrong to me, we took a Sequencing IST in Lincoln & I found it really quite frustrating working with other Yoga teachers who don't seem to know what they are doing, are they just out of their own comfort zone at these things, even the vinyasa teachers seemed to not have much of a clue & the practices were just awful... I am very aware that I am really no better but I am a first year student yoga teacher & i'm keeping that excuse!!! I do find myself quite astounded by a few Yoga teachers i meet
I have decided I will step down as County Rep next year, hopefully after the David Sye day, though I do have my 3 other days that will take me to June if no one else steps forward, & i'm not booking anymore, I want to do Foundation 2 with AK, I know I want to do it, its just the logistics of doing it, its nearly 2 hours there 6 hours study & 2 hours back once a month, 10 sessions
We spent a day with Durga Devi the Jivamukti advanced teacher from NY i loved how she took us straight off into a really long balasana followed by a face down tadasana... the way each teacher we meet has different ideas & notions just facinates me, & though they can't all be right, I have taken from each of them my own perspective on these yoga poses, I do believe you shouldn't teach a posture if you don't know why you are teaching it, going through the motions when a yoga teacher just seems so wrong to me, we took a Sequencing IST in Lincoln & I found it really quite frustrating working with other Yoga teachers who don't seem to know what they are doing, are they just out of their own comfort zone at these things, even the vinyasa teachers seemed to not have much of a clue & the practices were just awful... I am very aware that I am really no better but I am a first year student yoga teacher & i'm keeping that excuse!!! I do find myself quite astounded by a few Yoga teachers i meet
I have decided I will step down as County Rep next year, hopefully after the David Sye day, though I do have my 3 other days that will take me to June if no one else steps forward, & i'm not booking anymore, I want to do Foundation 2 with AK, I know I want to do it, its just the logistics of doing it, its nearly 2 hours there 6 hours study & 2 hours back once a month, 10 sessions
1 October 2012
I booked Michelle Helstrip to do us a day on the Dru Yoga system & she was such a lovely teacher, the practice itself probably isn’t for me but it was just one of those days that just made me so happy & glad I’m County Rep
Yesterday was a different matter, Jonathan Monks came to do a day, it was arranged by the 3rd years who have just finished TT, today I just feel tired & emotionally imbalanced, we worked on a wonderful technique about connection & mine is light, no matter who I worked with it was just naturally there but really light, I don’t have the ability to just be/let go with a person no matter who, as I worked with Phillipa who I love dearly, my connection with her was the same & I appear to hang on even though its light, its really odd, I can’t just let go of the anxiety I carry all the time, I know its there but I just don’t know how to make it better, which leaves me today not in a good place being the over thinker I am, that & taking offence to Jonathan Monks, its odd how certain people don’t ease you, I found him really hectic/excitable as a teacher, he was late to arrive, said ‘fuck’ several times & although he was very knowledgeable, his way just wasn't for me
24 September 2012
Peter Hersnack, now
I’m not a fan of Vinyoga & these 2 days were really quite frustrating in
that we really didn’t do much except listen to Peter talk a lot about space,
maybe in 20 years I will appreciate a weekend like this
Themes in a class IST,
22/9/12 a really great 2 hour twisting practice & I bought this lovely
little book after, the week after that day I felt really quite mobile in the
hips, I’m still struggling with this right side sacro/hip joint
I taught my first ever
Yoga practice on the 23rd, a short breathing practice &
relaxation in TT, I really don’t cope so well with the anxiety & although
when I listen back to this its actually quite good, when I was delivering it,
it felt just awful, I felt happy for days
after that, I asked Col to record it for me for future reference
7 September 2012
Matthew Sweeney Workshops 31st August - 2nd Sept
we decided to spend 14.5 hours over 3 days with Matthew Sweeney at the Yoga space in Leeds, the first workshop was his Chandra Sequence, this & his 2nd Sequence - The Lion, were my favourite 2 sessions of the 5, I was so tired by Sunday, i really need to work on some stamina, i'd be no good in mysore for a week ^^
These 2 photographs were taken by the Yoga Space
These 2 photographs were taken by the Yoga Space
CamYoga – if you like
the smell of sweat this is the place to find it, & you certainly leave some
of your own behind!! Jivamukti master class.. 25/8/12
17 August 2012
1 August 2012
The Yoga Temple
Matthew Sweeney
Ride the Breath
Ashtanga & Vinyasa Krama
Kathy Hallen & Fran Slavich
Yoga Anatomy
I finally decided to subscribe to this, yoga30 gives you 30% off for a years suscription
Matthew Sweeney
Ride the Breath
Ashtanga & Vinyasa Krama
Kathy Hallen & Fran Slavich
Yoga Anatomy
I finally decided to subscribe to this, yoga30 gives you 30% off for a years suscription
AK, DS & PB
Out of the many many teachers I have worked with, there are only a few who during a workshop I have really gained some insight about myself, light bulb moments let call them...
I first experienced Jivamukti with Andrea Kwaikowski at a BWY AGM, she had a wonderful yet disciplined presence & a real sense of what a really good Yoga teacher should be, I really wasn't strong back then & I pushed myself too hard that day, I remember it well, & it stayed with me untill I got to work with her again, there are very few teachers who remember you let alone notice how you progress over the 6 months/year until you work with them again, I have no idea how Andrea manages this when her life is Yoga whether its as Advancd Jivamukti or BWY DCT, she must see hundreds if not thousands of students each year, what I love about Andrea is the way she makes you think about life on or off the mat & I always look forward to working with her again.
David Sye.. before I went to spend a day with David, I had some reservations having been told by a fair few 'older teachers' lets call them... that I wouldn't like him or his way of teaching, this is something I really don't like in Yoga, all teachers offer something different & just because one person doesn't like what another teaches doesn't mean someone else won't. We actually arrived first at Radbrook & were greated & hugged by David & I immediately felt at ease, he was the most honest & warm person i'm yet to meet in Yoga, his teaching was full of lightheartedness & laughter, working together & reaching our child within, & that we all live in a constant 'fear' on some level with most things in our lives, simple & comlex, we worked on a mirror imagination meditation & I could only see the mirror now at its worst not in 3 years time if I choose negativity, I realised after that day I am in a pretty good place, putting Gambit to sleep, Bailey going to Uni, ending more friendships at the begining of the year, putting my brother into a different box a little further away from me, realising I can actually be a Yoga teacher, for the first time I see people use Yoga as a tool to help them in whatever they need, the same way someone would mountain bike or climb mountains, I will never know enough but what I have learnt over the last 4 years from many many different/diverse teachers is enough for me to now work with my own interpretation of what Yoga is & means to me & how I can share that with others
Peter Blackaby, one Yoga teacher that turned my world off.... I always said I would never pay more than £35 for a workshop, Peter Blackaby was £45, he is due to come to Jasmine Trust this September but it falls on Teacher Training so I wouldn't get a chance to work with him, call it luck but he was at Bamford with Les Dike on 15th July & we got in very last minute, I had no idea really who this man was, he is an Osteopath & Grounded Yoga Teacher, humanist rather than spiritual & straight away he picked up on my movements & began to explain about tension, using me as a perfect example, I physically could not keep my left leg soft & rock on to my pelvis using just my right foot, neither can I abduct my leg without my left side pelvis coming off the floor, simply because I hold tension in my right lower back/pelvis/hip, now whether he is right & this comes from childhood, or as Andrea has previously given me thought on, the right side is male/father.... 16 years ago I damaged my right side, Peter made sense that no one should be injured for more that 4 weeks as the body heals itself.....who knows, i'm more inclined to take the view that I hold tension to protect myself from my ongoing injuries on that side, which is probably why I continue to injure myself, the day after I really picked up on how I stand/walk/yoga/exist holding a slight tension, like a slight muscle hold, releasing it I can even breathe better into my abdomen, & I have to say from that day to this I don't feel like I run 10k everyday or need the SAD lamp to wake me up in a morning, I no longer sleep as long, my blood pressure seems to have climbed to 108/60, my last really low readings were back in May 85/55 80/50, thats when I stupidly detoxed totally forgetting I need caffiene & salt to keep it higher, not very clever.
Even with so much positivity coming from seeing Peter Blackaby, I do wonder if I am grasping at yet another concept & in a few months time nothing will have changed, I wanted to write about this so I can look back & see if I was living in placebo, hoping/willing this to be what finally gives me some peace...
I first experienced Jivamukti with Andrea Kwaikowski at a BWY AGM, she had a wonderful yet disciplined presence & a real sense of what a really good Yoga teacher should be, I really wasn't strong back then & I pushed myself too hard that day, I remember it well, & it stayed with me untill I got to work with her again, there are very few teachers who remember you let alone notice how you progress over the 6 months/year until you work with them again, I have no idea how Andrea manages this when her life is Yoga whether its as Advancd Jivamukti or BWY DCT, she must see hundreds if not thousands of students each year, what I love about Andrea is the way she makes you think about life on or off the mat & I always look forward to working with her again.
David Sye.. before I went to spend a day with David, I had some reservations having been told by a fair few 'older teachers' lets call them... that I wouldn't like him or his way of teaching, this is something I really don't like in Yoga, all teachers offer something different & just because one person doesn't like what another teaches doesn't mean someone else won't. We actually arrived first at Radbrook & were greated & hugged by David & I immediately felt at ease, he was the most honest & warm person i'm yet to meet in Yoga, his teaching was full of lightheartedness & laughter, working together & reaching our child within, & that we all live in a constant 'fear' on some level with most things in our lives, simple & comlex, we worked on a mirror imagination meditation & I could only see the mirror now at its worst not in 3 years time if I choose negativity, I realised after that day I am in a pretty good place, putting Gambit to sleep, Bailey going to Uni, ending more friendships at the begining of the year, putting my brother into a different box a little further away from me, realising I can actually be a Yoga teacher, for the first time I see people use Yoga as a tool to help them in whatever they need, the same way someone would mountain bike or climb mountains, I will never know enough but what I have learnt over the last 4 years from many many different/diverse teachers is enough for me to now work with my own interpretation of what Yoga is & means to me & how I can share that with others
Peter Blackaby, one Yoga teacher that turned my world off.... I always said I would never pay more than £35 for a workshop, Peter Blackaby was £45, he is due to come to Jasmine Trust this September but it falls on Teacher Training so I wouldn't get a chance to work with him, call it luck but he was at Bamford with Les Dike on 15th July & we got in very last minute, I had no idea really who this man was, he is an Osteopath & Grounded Yoga Teacher, humanist rather than spiritual & straight away he picked up on my movements & began to explain about tension, using me as a perfect example, I physically could not keep my left leg soft & rock on to my pelvis using just my right foot, neither can I abduct my leg without my left side pelvis coming off the floor, simply because I hold tension in my right lower back/pelvis/hip, now whether he is right & this comes from childhood, or as Andrea has previously given me thought on, the right side is male/father.... 16 years ago I damaged my right side, Peter made sense that no one should be injured for more that 4 weeks as the body heals itself.....who knows, i'm more inclined to take the view that I hold tension to protect myself from my ongoing injuries on that side, which is probably why I continue to injure myself, the day after I really picked up on how I stand/walk/yoga/exist holding a slight tension, like a slight muscle hold, releasing it I can even breathe better into my abdomen, & I have to say from that day to this I don't feel like I run 10k everyday or need the SAD lamp to wake me up in a morning, I no longer sleep as long, my blood pressure seems to have climbed to 108/60, my last really low readings were back in May 85/55 80/50, thats when I stupidly detoxed totally forgetting I need caffiene & salt to keep it higher, not very clever.
Even with so much positivity coming from seeing Peter Blackaby, I do wonder if I am grasping at yet another concept & in a few months time nothing will have changed, I wanted to write about this so I can look back & see if I was living in placebo, hoping/willing this to be what finally gives me some peace...
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