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13 Oct

JiaZhen_Philosophy of Yoga

What is Yoga? According to Paramahansa Yogananda, “an Indian yogi and guru”: “Yoga means union. Etymologically, it is connected to the English word, yoke. Yoga means union with God, or, union of the little, ego-self with the divine Self, the infinite Spirit. Most people in the West, and also many in India, confuse Yoga with Hatha […]

13 Oct

Listening to your body – Pei Xuan (4/6)

Yoga has taught me a lot about the way our body moves, the muscles we choose to actively engage, the way we breathe — and on a whole, the way our body feels. Many times, we often want to try our best to get into a pose perfectly; getting into that “perfect” alignment and that “perfect” shape, but […]

13 Oct

Sadly excited

Can’t believe today is our last YTT day. Sad to suddenly realised I won’t be seeing these girls often soon. Hope we all still be in touch after YTT. SO HAPPY that exams over. So excited for tomorrow. Praying hard that all of us will be graduating tomorrow. Now going home to pray HARDER 🙏🏻😀😁 […]

13 Oct

Teaching

Even more than halfway through my yoga journey, i couldn’t imagine myself teaching in front of a class. Public speaking was just not my forte and i couldn’t imagine if my teaching voice will be suitable to be a yoga teacher. It was such a nerve wrecking experience that i felt as if i could […]

12 Oct

YTT Teaching Week

YTT teaching week has come to a close and it has been the most memorable week of them all. Firstly, I don’t think I have ever subjected my body to such a level of physical intensity. I clocked 20 hours of yoga classes in the past 5 days, from attending my YTT classmates’ classes. Definitely […]

12 Oct

Patience and all is coming

Being one of the considerably more seasoned practitioners in my YTT course has given me the rare opportunity to teach my fellow YTT classmates about certain poses. Rare because I hardly consider myself as advanced in any way! One day after YTT we were working on asanas, and someone got frustrated because she wasn’t strong […]