Now for my personal experiment, while going through the motions of my yoga teacher training I was challenged. I wasn’t sure sometimes what this was all about. Why are we doing all these breathing techniques and why are we meditating all the time? Until finally one day it came to me. There is something bigger […]
So here I am with my ultimate goal in mind, to help others. And where is this more applicable than in my own home. The place where I see the problems that arise and the place I can make the most impact. That place is in my home, with my daughter. Recently we had parent […]
And just thinking more deeply about it I realized how long it took me to come back to this place where I realize that I am not the one who is wrong but that our society and our lifestyles and our culture and pressures is where things have gone wrong. So through my learning and […]
So we started out talking about yoga and talking about putting together a nightly routine for her. She was very excited as she’s been watching me do my do my practice and likes to imitate me. Then we moved on to picking out a routine, I would show her some poses and she would pick […]
Axis Yoga Teacher Training students delve into an experiment of their own choosing as a culmination of what they have learned in the program. In an initial effort to stop getting sick, this student started by eliminating the toxins in external objects. But soon found so much of the toxins to actually be inside. And […]
I began with the fact that I’m sick every couple of weeks and set out to correct that by only eating organic foods that are also good for my constitution (vata/kapha) and using eliminating lotions, shampoos anything with chemicals in them or unknown ingredients. I used oil instead of lotion and for shampoo I put […]
I also set out to address my mental attitude towards myself which carries over onto how I feel about others. For the past 7/8 months I have not liked myself in any way, I’ve been beating myself up about everything I don’t like how I’ve been interacting with the rest of the world. It’s been […]
Many things occurred to me during this process. Such as its ok to feel no matter how you’re feeling it’s ok to be mad or sad or lost or happy. Another realization made was this construct I project of someone watching me that is separate from me. This is probably some conditioning from growing up […]
The results of my efforts have been rather odd. I feel that I am in a limbo and have been waking up wondering why I’m not excited and remembering the last time I was excited was when I was in Sri Lanka where I also underwent a time of having to drop everything I thought […]
Like many students of Axis Yoga Teacher Trainings, this student came into the journey with multiple goals and found success in each of them. This journey is an example of the transformation that occurs in life when space is given to Yoga.