What do you do with a word whose full weight you're still learning to carry?

I call my teacher Guru Devendra. I do it carefully, the word means one who removes darkness.

Which yoga word are you still learning to carry?

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Two ways how I plan my yoga classes.

For short format classes, I scribble names & times. For long format, I stick figure sketch the whole sequence.

Planning classes does not mean I follow it to the letter, chances are I improvise on the general idea depending on who's in class and how everyone is feeling.

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Sundays tasks of a yoga teacher:

- Charge the decorative lamps that I use during yoga class
- Charge the microphone I use to record yoga videos
- Schedule yoga video(s) on YouTube
- Schedule yoga video(s) on Instagram
- Schedule yoga video(s) on Facebook
- Clean out space in my phone & cloud (after making sure everything has been back-upped)
- Plan out a new sequence

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The best yoga teacher I ever had told me to stop coming to her class.

Real practice doesn't need an audience, just honesty.

Have you ever had a teacher who gave you permission to find your own path?

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My teacher said four words. It took me six months to understand them.

'You are holding your future.' Six months later, I finally understood.

Has a teaching ever arrived for you months or years after you first heard it?

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during yinyoga we rest, we surrender, we marinade in our shape and listen to our yinside: our thoughts & feelings
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Im Yinyoga kommen wir zur Ruhe, geben uns hin in unsere äußere Form und lauschen unseren Gedanken und Gefühlen im Inneren.

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You don't become someone who doesn't grasp. You become someone who notices the moment the hands curl.

That gap, between grasping and releasing, is where the sutra actually lives.

Where do you notice the moment your own hands curl?

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#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #mindfulness
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogateacher

I found Ketut, someone who didn't teach tourists.

His backyard practice overlooked rice paddies. He moved like water. "Yoga not special thing. Is how you live."

Who has taught you about practice in unexpected ways?

Read more

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/balis-beauty-and-the-spiritual-mirage-086b47574fb2

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