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Ihanaa; joogaohjaajakoulutuksen suunnittelu on hauskaa ja kiinnostavaa. Kahdeksi vuodeksi joogalle antautuvia oppilaita on jo tarpeeksi, ja suunnittelu on hyvällä mallilla:-)
Opinnot on suunniteltu kahdeksi vuodeksi niin, ettei opiskelijoille pääse tulemaan paineita, ja asiat sulavat ja muotoutuvat. Jokaisen henkilökohtaiset tarpeet ohjauksen ja mahdollisen ammatin luomisen suhteen otetaan koulutuksessa huomioon.

Suunnitteluni sisältää eriväristen bolstereiden hankintaa, vöiden kertymistä kirjahyllyn päälle, syvien sisälihasten ymmärrykseen tulevaa hauskaa pyörälaitetta, kaikenlaisten palkkien hankintaa. Nyt siis pääsen itse leikkimään oikein kunnolla.

Olen ihastunut ihmiskehon moninaisuuteen ja sen tutkimiseen. Oma keho toimii usein koekaniinina. Kirjahyllystä löytyy lukuisia anatomian kirjoja kuvilla ja ilman, teksteillä ja ilman, liikkuvaa anatomiaa, osteopatia anatomiaa, lääketieteellistä anatomiaa ja elävää eri kehon järjestelmiin perustuvaa kokonaisvaltaista anatomiaa. Entinen anatomian väistelijä, minä, on hurahtanut kehon uskomattomiin ulottuvuuksiin.

On antoisaa ohjata joogaa, ja antoisaa suunnitella miten muut voivat ohjata yksilöllistä, älykästä, kokonaisvaltaista ja oikeaa elämänydin joogaa!

Tekeillä ovat myös uudet joogasivut: yogasource.fi, jotka toivon mukaan pääsevät liikkeelle marraskuussa. Elämän leikki on kaunista kun sille antautuu.

What is yoga?

Yoga is about health and wellbeing, healing and joy. Our bodies are made to move and our life is meant to be lived in joy and love. Yoga is like life or love: it cannot be explained, it has to be lived and experienced. Ultimately yoga and life are one and same.

What do you receive?

Yoga creates more grace into movement and freedom into living. It helps you with pains and aches, gives flexibility and strength. It also helps you to become the observer of your thoughts and discomforts instead of a slave of your busy mind and emotions. Yoga gives you ability to cope with daily stress.

Be your own teacher

You can learn to be your own teacher and learn to read the signs of your own body, thoughts and emotions. With yoga you can learn to live your own rhythm in life. You can be at home in your body and live your life with a sense of fulfillment and purpose. Most people look for answers from outside but the best answers are within you. Yoga helps you to be your own teacher.

What is not yoga or, what yoga is not?

So often people come and say that they can’t do yoga because they are not flexible. There are so many misunderstandings in the world of yoga. Yoga is for everybody and everyone who can breathe and would like to improve the quality of life. For some the pictures are mostly about flexible people in knots and bends that most people can never do. However yoga is not about beautiful forms, flexible bodies, never ending youth and physical beauty. It is about good life in all kinds of bodies in all walks of life.

Simple facts

Flexible bodies need strength and stiff bodies need flexibility to function better. Stressed people need relaxation, floppy people stamina; twisted spine needs practices for balancing the sides; shallow breathing invites for learning to breathe more fully. Restless mind can be handled with concentration and stillness. Physical poses together with breath, concentration and being in the moment, make a simple every day (or every week) practice. If you wish to dive into the life in your body, discover, learn and get inspired, then yoga is for you.

History and tradition

Yoga is older than its history in India yet it has been rediscovered, kept alive and put into practice in India. Patanjali did a great job in gathering information, putting it together into a form that can still be used as a well working guidance in life. From his work comes the Idea that yoga comes from India. The times before India are not well recorded, but I will write more about it later. Current yoga forms, practices, traditions and philosophies mostly come from the Indian yogic background. Yoga is a living, changing, always transforming practice since it is union in now.

Meaning of yoga

Yoga itself means union; union with life without any separation. Only individual himself or herself can have union with life, live in union or wish for union. So every yoga practice is individual and every individual’s way to this union, is different. Yoga is one consciousness that connects everyone in the place of truth, in the beginning of creation, in the source of healing. There is no one way to that yoga.

My teaching

In my teaching I use the great knowledge of the teachers that came before me. However, the best teacher is the person that is in front of me in the moment. Her or his body and being is unique and so I as a teacher become a student every time when teaching. For me as a teacher being present and listening are the most important things. All the experience, knowledge and skills, which I have acquired in my life, can come into the play in the moment of teaching.

My background in yoga is ashtanga yoga and the exploration of yoga within the context of ashtanga yoga practice. Now I am influenced by many other traditions and my own dancer’s, bodyworker’s and energyhealer’s backround. The internationally accredited 500hr teacher training I did in Australia in Purna yoga. Purna means complete and includes all aspects of yoga as a wholistic way of living your life. Asana practice in purna yoga is based on Iyengar yoga which grants a very safe way of doing the poses. I am also specialized on therapeutic yoga (200hr alliance training) and prenatal yoga. Trainings don’t make a yoga teacher though, but the love of yoga and the love of sharing it. The constant observation of and interest in Life and living beings, the down to earth approach are the heart of my yoga.

Movement, healing and overall wellbeing out of the box are my passion. Living in joy and love is the red thread in my life in whatever I do or teach. So also in yoga nature, animals, simple down to earth realizations normally work the best. I use what works, so I dont have a label under my teaching. What do you love? Where do you live your spirit to the fullest? What do you like to share with others? That is where your Yoga is.