Hello Halloween! Lift your legs off the floor and support your middle back with the palms of your hands while keeping the elbows in parallel towards each other. Activate the abdominal wall to help maintain the weight of the legs. Keep the legs straight and active, and point the feet. Invite a feeling of lightness that reaches the entire body up towards the ceiling, and breath, deeply.

Yoga is the effort full path, which entails a road with inescapable obstacles, plateaus, and setbacks. When we are facing a challenge, it is easy to disregard the valuable opportunity we are also presented for gaining new inner knowledge. 

On this Corona wave of almost everyone making their own little training videos, online yoga classes, and self-marketing plus more, I have been forced to stop and think what’s my role as a Teacher in all of this. What my niche is, if I even have one?

You know those times when you hear the call of the sea? I have heard that loud call many times in my life. It’s an almost begging call I feel coming from deep within the lower thickest layer of my skin urging me to be by the sea. Ironically, I am not a deep sea creature.

What I practice is a form of mind training called Ashtanga Yoga. It’s is not the only form, but it is the form that resonates with me. Now, what’s the difference between that form and other physical forms; such as: acrobatics, training at the gym, or any other forms of physical exercising? Aren’t they a form of mind training too?

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
~William Barclay
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The Ashtanga Yoga methodology has two styles of practice. These are: Guided classes and Mysore style clases.

Dearest Zürich, my sweet home away from home,

Thank you for the very special day you gifted me by the lake today. You displayed such manners by granting me my favorite weather, a bright sunny day that is warm, yet not hot or humid.

There are times I come across certain practitioners that would love it if there was a magic pill they could take to “achieve” a particular pose(s) and avoid being challenged, so they can “quickly” move on to, ironically enough, the next challenging pose.

Just last night, I was pondering on how blessed I feel to count with the guidance and support of some of the most amazing humans in my life, whom I hold so dear in my heart, and just earlier this morning, I came across the most poignant message below:

Sadhana Pada, second chapter, of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. 2:46 "sthira-sukham-āsanam". Asana is the third limb of the eight limbs of yoga and the one that's mostly known in the west, for it is the physical aspect of yoga.

I was first introduced to the concept of “La Dolce Far Niente,” which means "the sweetness of doing nothing”, in the famous book: “Eat, Pray, Love” by well renown Author Elizabeth Gilbert. Later, I learned about studies in Psychology and the remarkable benefits on what the art of doing nothing adds to our wellbeing.