25/07/2023
I am Simon and I teach Yoga. Iyengar Yoga.
Yes, indeed, that's all I do: full-time and as a freelancer. I couldn't have dreamed of a more fulfilling profession and way of approaching life.
One doesn't become a professional yoga teacher overnight. After Master studies in physical education & movement sciences and in Anthropology, my first yoga steps were in India in the form of a 200hrs teacher training.
Back in Belgium I continued my studies at the Iyengar Yoga Center of Brussels (where I also teach today - www.aumyoga.be): three years of preparation, before being accepted for another 3 year mentorship.
So that equals 6 years of training to be Iyengar certified. It does not end here. I am now preparing for the next level (sept 2024).
Two months after my level 1 graduation, I went to India for the fifth time, but it was my first time in the city of Pune studying with the Iyengar family and participating in the international Yoga convention that spanned over 6 weeks of intense practice and study.
📸 The picture has been taken in a small local momo's (~dumplings) shop in Pune, India where me and a colleague were writing down the morning yoga sequences.
I just finished for the fourth year in a row a 5 day yoga course with W***y Bok, one of the finest and most experienced teachers in Belgium today. I feel grateful and iin love with yoga and what it has to offer this world.
It shows us the unity within diversity, it helps us break rigid patterns, stagnation and a confused mindset and leads us to growth, therapy for the body and calm in the Mind.
I keep on meeting people touching upon a higher potential or people finding hope and perspective again after deep depressions or serious physical issues thanks to the grace of Iyengar yoga and dedication to it. it feels like miracles, but actually it is just science and common sense.
When we take care of our health holistically, our being can come to full expression and old patterns, trauma's and negative experiences can be processed in a deeper way.
In short, more peace is found and mental and physical suffering is reduced.
Life, however it comes, can then be joyfully welcomed and savored 💎✨
