Embodiment

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Hmm so here's the juggernaut. Confidence is required to practice, and furthermore, to teach. There is no one, not even when you have a history of performance and public speaking who is not confronted when intensely developing their yoga practice and certainly when they teach. How can we harness this desire to do well, with confidence, ease and authenticity? To cultivate contentment, we can foster the following attitudes and practices: - Adikara: doing the work to make yourself whole, doing the work to be ready (preparation) - Interconnectedness - lose the ego, don't define yourself as separate from others and your environment (we are brought into existence by our community) - Heritage: Knowing and embracing your history and roots - Embodiment: 'fake it til you make it' This weekend we will be looking at the history of yoga, the energetic body, kundalini shakti, the elements and sankhya philosophy, physiology and teaching beginners.

Hmmmm... so this is the word we will do all manor of body contortions to avoid, right?! Or NOT... for this is the aspect of practice that enables it to be transformative. This is the word that unclutters life and allows us to discern what is truly important and what is an uncompromising bed rock in our daily life. Like a knife edge, discipline cuts away the insipid flotsum of daily life and connects you to structures of behaviour and action that define you and generate a meaningful life. True discipline arises from desire , not from obligation, social-posturing or virtue-signalling. This weekend on YTTC we will look at: - sequencing vinyasa and hatha yoga classes, - on how to develop a inspirational self practice - exploring the message of the yoga sutras and sankhya philosophy - introduction to Hindu deities after whom many of the asana's are named - safety in yoga practice as a student and as a teacher 'Discipline' from the yoga lineage has nothing to do with 'shoulds', it has everything to do with desire: you honing an unswerving and uncompromising focus on the aspects of you and your life that will allow you to live skillfully, with power and with grace, 'You are what your deep, driving desire is As your desire is, so is your will As your will is, so is your deed As your deed is, so is your destiny.' ~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5