Yoga Ute.S

I've been practising the tratakum meditation for a while now, and that means taking my candle with me wherever I go for more than a day. Tommie knows this and has even pre-packed my candle for me - and a lot neater than I have. �So far my grandmother's copper candle holder has been in Wilderness at the coast, in the bush while camping, in Mbombela (Nelspruit) and in Bloem. I've learnt that people quickly get used to me taking my candle and wandering to a remote corner to do yoga. This habit, I must confess, has lead to a case of tick bite fever when a tick joined me for meditation in the bush.

Well, hello there.
We are looking for a fellow yogi teacher to join us at our weekly classes in Alex. Safe space, experienced students and teamwork. 🧘🏿‍♂️🧘🏽🧘🏾‍♀️
Be part of the heart of yoga where it matters!
(please note that these classes are service orientated, which is an important tenet of yogic teachings. You will not get paid for these classes.)
http://ntethelelofoundation.org.za/

Another young yogi, Ditebogo meditating deeply. We teach a weekly class at the Ntethelelo foundation in Malboro Gardens.
It is a space of profound group energy as kids, who often have the responsibilities of adults already, apply tools from the yoga mats into their lives. As a teacher it is a great honour to to be with these teenagers who teaches me about determination, focus, laughter and living from the heart.

The only real challenge is when it is someone's birthday and everyone starts singing and dancing. There is no way I can keep up. So I just kinda jog in place and clap. It is what it is.

Sometimes a dog is the best yoga companion! Leo, and his friend, Toast, ends the yoga session with closed eyes and open hearts. The two golden-haired kids!

I've been part of the yoga training team for the 4 days we spend with the Ntethelelo Foundation in Magaliesburg. The retreat focussed on healing the Self. But it IS 20 teenagers! And they are filled with fire for life. So me, at breakfast on Sunday, and me on Sunday night, after 15 hours of being yoga, all the time.

Yogic philosophy in action means access to healing technology for everyday people, no matter who or where.

"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers."--Susan Sontag.

Photograph by Richard Avedon, believed to have been taken in 2000.

Our newest rescue getting on the mat with me for daily sadhana.
I just got back from an in person yoga training session on Sunday and deeply cleansed stuck energy. As sometimes happen after healing, my body is saying: “ flu to you” to me. So it is bed rest today…

When a yoga class aquires its own magic! I even forgot my mat, but one of Y's earlier little patients bought her flowers, and the cat bought itself. On the left is the Body Stress Release bed (BSR). We had a fantastic energy exchange: BSR for yoga, and then I had to go get a job!

Kundalini Yoga is about sharing healing tools that helps people in their everyday lives to recover vitality. I am now looking for spaces and communities to volunteer yoga classes for free so that all the healing I've been gifted with can be shared where it is needed. Get in touch, or share this opportunity.

Touch your toes! In a yoga class, students sometimes feel that they are not 'doing' yoga if they are not as flexible as the teacher or able to balance on one foot, say. It is helpful to remember that yoga is not what you are forcing your body to do, but what happens in your body as you combine something as simple as deep breathing with your best pose. Always be gentle - I had a yoga teacher in my class today who injured an already fragile knee, by trying to 'keep up' while her body was saying: "don't!". Not good for her, or me, but she is the one who ends up taking the knee home. Always let your body be your teacher.

Community and yoga. What we all do to stay present.

Join me this Saturday at 9.30 am for a Kundalini yoga class: Remove Body Blocks
What happens within us and around us manifest in our bodies. This kriya wakes up the heart and circulation, the legs, and stretches through the whole body to lightly reach within our physical systems for deep healing.
This is a class for all levels, accessed from the comfort of your own mat.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83083111063?pwd=YXcvL2NMRUlvbnVNUTE0NFNCaFBhZz09
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Classes are Donation Based: International Donation Link: https://bit.ly/Donate_AKYTTSA Bank Details: Standard Bank #30049149, branch 018505 All Donations go towards Sponsoring Students of Colour to Become Qualified Teachers through the Community-Minded and Progressive Yoga School, Akkyttsa which is a part of

In wintertime we decided not to do extreme yoga outside, but move it to a warmer indoors. Note Claudia's straight back and relaxed shoulders as she does a crow squat. I don't look like that in crow. She completely trusts her centre of gravity to hold her and it shows.

A star to everyone who keeps their yoga practise going, day in and day out. 10 minutes or 2 hours. Meditating or moving or chanting. There are so many reasons to not do it 'today'. But when I do it, the minutes add up over months and becomes something else - another note in the song of time spent with my thoughts or my body, without expecting it to be pretty. It is authentic.