My wife has been practicing yoga (one may say an American Version) at a local Yoga Studio called Yoga Tribe for few years now. A local group, developed by a gentleman named Jason, who is trained by big names like Bikram Yoga.
It started as a gentler alternative to Boot-camp routine. Honestly, it took me a while to digest the idea of Caucasians teaching Yoga 😎. Finally, I managed to start few months ago.
My experience has been pleasant, humbling and most importantly learning.
Learning was not what I had expected or even sought. Yes, that was naive.
It is incredible how the teachers at this studio has embraced the yogic everything and have achieved an expertise where they, very successfully, are imparting a training for.
Purpose of this blog is to capture some of the learning, not in any particular order or connection.
It started as a gentler alternative to Boot-camp routine. Honestly, it took me a while to digest the idea of Caucasians teaching Yoga 😎. Finally, I managed to start few months ago.
My experience has been pleasant, humbling and most importantly learning.
Learning was not what I had expected or even sought. Yes, that was naive.
It is incredible how the teachers at this studio has embraced the yogic everything and have achieved an expertise where they, very successfully, are imparting a training for.
Purpose of this blog is to capture some of the learning, not in any particular order or connection.
- Almost every session starts with child pose or Corpse pose, and literally every session ends with Savasana. While I did not question it, our teacher today, Jenna (a flight attendant by profession) described it vividly.
- Savasana is a representation of being dead.
- Balasana is of being a child
- A symbolic representation of living a life (in that hour): From Death to Death, may be a representation of a belief of reincarnation.
- OR a symbol of a one's life: from birth of a child to death, a circle of life.
- Once a session ends in Savasana, You wake up in fetal position (Parsva Savasana) a symbolic move of being 're-born'.
- And finally you express gratitude for everything that you have and prepare for rest of the day.
- It is like hitting a re-set and aligning yourself to the goodness of being a human.
- Amazing positive energy.
- Celebration of individual and internal strength.
- Celebration of humans as we are.
- A strong foundation of "We are all same, equal".
- An absolute rejection of ideas of comparison, material and anything evil.
I am re-learning the heritage that I took it granted for and I have to thank my teachers at Yoga Tribe for. 🙏
A revelation, a re-learning :
Yoga is probably the strongest description of what is being a Hindu means. There is no "ism" in it, no rigid commandments, no directives, just one simple suggestion - Be Human.
Side note:
The main hall @ Ramkrishna Ashram, an incredible architecture to induce peace and calm.
Yoga is probably the strongest description of what is being a Hindu means. There is no "ism" in it, no rigid commandments, no directives, just one simple suggestion - Be Human.
Side note:
The main hall @ Ramkrishna Ashram, an incredible architecture to induce peace and calm.
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