09/11/2019
“Which kind of Yoga do you teach?”
This is a question I always get when someone contacts me about my Yoga classes. They get a whole resume with everything I studied and all the different kinds of Yoga I did and will continue to study for the rest of my life.
As if that answers the question…
I always end with the notion that they should give me a try. Because not every teacher is for every student, and that is exactly how it should be. If Yoga is about connection on all levels then let’s make sure first and foremost there is a connection between student and teacher. You can have 10 different Ashtanga, Hatha and Iyenger teachers and it will all overlap and they all will be so different.
And about the Yoga I teach?
These are the facts: I mostly start with lying on a bolster and noticing for a couple of minutes how we are, where we feel what, and getting more into our bodies and out of our heads. Then I work with the amazing cards of Yoganga Yoga©; Cards that will help you realize that Yoga is an inside journey as a physical one. Before or after, there will be Pranayama (breathing techniques). Then the main part is Asana (Yoga postures) which will totally depend on the students and what I pick up from them energetically or know they can do. We end the class with Shavasana (relaxation) and saying thanks to our bodies. The class can be intense and sweaty with a lot of flow and it can be super slow with few asanas.
But these are the things I hope to teach:
I hope to teach a loving and compassionate connection with our bodies, with all its parts.
I hope to teach how to become more flexible in your body, without paying attention to your rigidness.
I hope to teach you to explore your breathing more consciously and the immediate effect this has on your well-being.
I hope to teach a need for meditation, not only to quiet your mind but to give it its freedom and be in awe with whatever it comes up with.
I hope to teach to embrace enthusiasm when we feel and see improvement in asanas, but also tenderly notice the little relapses.
I hope to teach how to gain a little bit of strength and endurance with every class you take.
I hope to teach how grateful we should be for our bodies because nothing physical should be taken for granted. Not even walking up or down the stairs to my studio.
And I hope to teach to take all of this and much more, of your mat and into your life:
A FLEXIBLE mindset
STRENGHT in your spinal cord
LOVE when you look into the mirror, even on off days.
The ability to rest when you need to and PERSEVERANCE and RESILIENCE when you know you can.
And I aspire to never forget that my profession is a humble one and an ongoing lesson for me just as well in everything I wrote. We are all students of Yoga.
