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26 Nov

Week 4 of YTT: Learning to appreciate the work behind Yoga Teaching

For my 6th and final blog post, I wanted to talk a little about learning to appreciate the hard work behind yoga teaching. It’s now the 4th and penultimate week into the YTT course and moving on from focusing on ourselves and our postures, to teaching and bringing that focus and love to someone else. […]

26 Nov

“What are you afraid of?”

Okay, so this one theory lesson stuck with me even until now. Back then, when Jess said, ‘meditation’, I imagined scented candles in a dark room and instrumental music playing in the background. So when the question “What are you afraid of?” came up, I flatlined *insert long beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep here* Because I had a whole […]

25 Nov

Leo Yaik 2018 September 200 Hrs (6)

“Standing on the Shoulder of Giants” It has been an amazing journey. There is no better group of people I would have asked for to experience this short 3 months, 2 days a week, 6 hours a day with. So for my last post, I would like to write something about them. Christine […]

25 Nov

Leo Yaik 2018 September 200 Hrs (5)

“To teach is to learn the second time” My first class went almost how I thought it might turned out. I blacked out. Not blacked out as in I froze up in class. Blacked out as in I don’t recall what happened during that one hour. It was the same the first time i […]

25 Nov

Leo Yaik 2018 September 200 Hrs (4)

“No man is an island” I think I have a better version of that phrase. I would say “Every man is an island and we connect them with bridges”. These bridges need to be built to connect an island to another island. These bridges need to be maintained for the islands to stay connected. […]

25 Nov

Week 3 of YTT: Loving Your Own Body

This last week we learnt about the skeletal structure of our bodies. It was really interesting to find out more things about your body that you never knew about before, especially when you have already been poked at and prodded a lot by medical practitioners. Of course, the inner kaypoh in me was also really […]