It has been a long time since I wrote something here. In one moment you realise that it has been almost a year. Everything goes by so fast, but if I look back, it has been the best time of my life. I have been teaching so many groups on different topics around Estonia, I had great students at University. I have chance to teach yoga in my favourite studios in Tallinn. I just love those places and people there. I am so grateful for meeting so many beautiful souls, seen people growing, getting stronger and more flexible. I have met many glowing mums-to-be-yogis and new yoga babies are born. Aeg liigub hämmastavalt kiiresti. Ühel hetkel märkad, et pea aasta on möödunud viimasest postitusest. Tõesti see aasta on olnud parim- ma olen palju õpetanud ja õppinud. Juhendanud erinevaid gruppe, aidanud mõtestada noorsootööd, strateegilist planeerimist, õppimist ja õpetamist. Mul on võimalik juhendada joogat parimates joogastuudiotes. Ma olen südamest tänulik kõikidele teile, kes te olete minu joogatundidesse sattunud- nii ilusad inimesed seest kui väljast. Nii palju tugevust ja painduvust, nii palju kasvamist ja rõõmu, palju uusi joogabeebisid:) I went back to Bali, I was volunteering in Bali Spirit Festival. I took part of many yoga workshops, I travelled around Bali and Gilis with my family, but I promise Ill write many posts about it. Keset õpetamist ja õppimist õnnestus mul tagasi minna Balile. Saarele, kus on seni osa minu südamest. Ma olin vabatahtlik maailma suurimal joogafestivalil, osalesin paljudes töötubades. Reisisin Balil ringi, käisin Gilil ja kogesin maagiat igal sammul. Kõgile Bali huvilistele kirjutan ka oma kogemusest pikemalt, püüan seda üsna varsti teha, Now I am organising my first yoga retreat in beautiful place in south of Estonia, where good food meets yoga. The place itself has a good energy- surrounded by healing energy of herbs, river and woods. We start with yin yoga through storytelling, stories are about returning, being and trusting the flow of life. Then we move from silence to movement and energy. We start from core, adding layer by layer, single movement becomes flow. Flow that comes through your body. Then we move back to silence with beautiful live music. We end our yoga retreat with walking meditation in my favourite place- Hüpassaare bog in early morning to see the sunrise. We will salute the sun and take a tour in fields of herbs. I hope it will be exactly like I have dreamed many times. And I promise it will be magic, because I put my whole heart into it! Nüüd olen ma korraldamas ühte oma unistust, mis on meeles mõlkunud juba mitu aastat, aga aeg pole senini veel küps olnud. Nüüd on see koht ja aeg leitud. 25.-27.08 olete oodatud osa saama unistusest kohas, mis õigustatult kannab nime Energia talu, mida ümbritseb voolava vee energia ja kus õhus hõljub ravimtaimede tervendav aroom. Jalge all on sooja ilma korral puhas loodus või põrand, mis on valmistatud Siberi lehisest: rahustav, pehme ja kiirgava energiaga. Kokku saavad vaikus ja kohalolek ning liikumine ja energia. Joogaaeg on üles ehitatud kihiti: vaikusest saab samm sammu haaval liikumine ning energia. Energiast saab vaikus, vaikusest saab teadvelolek. Kui sa kahtled, kas sobib üksi tulla või sind kammitseb hirm, et äkki ma ei saa hakkama, siis ära muretse asjade pärast, mis mitte kunagi ei juhtu! Ma usun, et sellel kenal nädalavahetusel saavad kokku kõige toredamad inimesed maa peal ja sa ei tunne end üksi ning saad hakkama kõigega, milleks sinu keha valmis on. Mina luban, et tuleb maagiline puhkus, sest see, mis tuleb südamest, läheb ka südamesse:) Registreeri julgelt, kirjutades mulle [email protected] või lihtsalt FB sõnumitesse. Kohti on kahjuks piiratud arv, seega ole julge! Ootan!
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I love the saying that aim of the yoga is to create space were once stuck. To unveil layers of protection you have built around your heart. To appreciate your body and become aware of the mind and the noise it creates. To make peace with who you are in creating our natural wholeness, balanced integrity of our yin and yang nature. I am naturally yang-type of person. I love sun and light, hot weather and spicy food. I function better on daytime and love to be active and spend time outside. I'`m not good at keeping emotions inside and tend to act before I think. I am loud and want everything happen here and now. Although I`m pretty earthy, I love to dream about many things and sometimes feel like the sky is the only limit. Although I love to be a woman, passionate about my home, beautiful clothes, cooking and dancing, on the same time I' m a true warrior who can handle everything without help. Tough, independent woman with lot of fire inside. So for a long time I created a very yang-like lifestyle for myself. Always planning, controlling and leading at work and home. Yes, I did achieve a lot, I had a wonderful career as a manager and I surely seemed like very gentle and amiable person. I had always my agenda in my pockets and no matter what the weather or how many times I had to try, I did it. Because I was a warrior and many times even acted like a true marshal. My way or no way. Yep hard to admit, but same at home and everywhere. Even though I was a true woman, my life was lacking yin side of being. I couldn’t trust the flow of life, I have used to plan and control everything. I was constantly planning, thinking and reacting emotionally. I didn't hear my body, I had terrible headaches, I was intensive and unbalanced. I kept on going very yang-way, when eventually life gave me painful lesson to learn. I couldn't plan anything, I just lived my life day by day not knowing what`s going to happen next. I had to live in the present moment, there was no clear future and past was full of memories. Other way was impossible. I got lesson for a lifetime. Although everything worked out fine in the end, I needed a help to find myself again. The very first yoga class I took, was kind of Yin, slow, holding poses long and just being there with my body and mind. I couldn'`t understand what was the idea of sitting there and doing barely nothing. I was counting minutes to get out of the room and away from my thoughts that were circulating in my head. I wanted to have physical exercise, to move fast and burn lot of calories. So I stepped into intensive yang yoga practice just to take care of my body. That’s how my personal journey started and how yoga approaches to many students, via physical exercise in order to get in shape, reduce stress or to find the way out from something that doesn't feel right anymore. At one point during my regular yoga-life, I got noticed that yang yoga practice was quietly sneaking into my lifestyle. I started to notice my emotional body, how my thoughts are flowing and changing and affecting my physical body. Yoga taught me flexibility in life, how to cope with other’s needs. And patience, still my biggest struggle in life. I understood that I can' `t control everything and learned how to live peace with myself when everything doesn'` t go the way I planned or decided. I started let go of things or just let them be the way they are. I understood that I can't change others, but myself. I followed the moon and let things happen way they are. I trusted the flow of life. I started to love yin in yoga and life. I let myself be in yin yoga and it was deliberating. I was amazed how it can be, that without sweating and intensive exercise you feel so light and relaxed. I felt more energy and the mind was clear as well. And believe me, it isn' `t easy to sit there with all your flowing thoughts and body that wants to move out from posture. Yin side of yoga has taught me to lose control, let things go and let them be, and this has been and still is hardest lesson in my life. While teaching, I share my personal practice, what I have learned and experienced. I teach mainly yang-style of yoga, because my personal journey began from there and I am still in love with vinyasa. To begin with the tangible part of us is more common in many ways, but still yet pretty hard to understand and control. We always say that do your practice, but listen to your body. And that listening part is very hard, we are still pushing strong and shaking in the postures doing more harm than good for our bodies. So many times we start with the yang practises, sometimes we feel something, even fall, get angry or start to cry. Then we start noticing, during or after yoga. Maybe we even listen our body and mind, learn something and the yin part has started. Sometimes while I practise, I start with yin postures to get into the skin and bones and slowly continue to feel the tangible part of human, muscles and body. I use yin yoga in my prenatal classes, I do breathing exercises to get connected to body and poses that help body to be more relaxed. I love how children get naturally yin, they feel their bones and skin, could imagine deeper tissues of the body. We are on constant journey towards wholeness and balance, integrating yin and yang sides of life. Sometimes there are more yin and other times yang, the challenge is to acknowledge the current state and to try to find balance again. Every single day of your life. Yang part is more understandable and achievable for us, because we see it, we can touch it. The yin part of life and yoga takes more time to understand, because it is hard to touch untouchable. Holding space for now is hard, being in between is difficult. You can`t push anything nor force yourself, you have to feel it in your skin, bones and with your heart. It takes time, but it is worth it. It can change your life and yang practice. It opens your body and mind in many different ways. It teaches you how to let things be as they are, when you can`t change anything. It gives you time, extends reaction time, teaches patience and stillness in life. But in the end its all about wholeness. Where dark meets light, water with fire, cold with hot, speed meets stillness, activity with patience and moon with sun. Where yang and yin are both present. Ma usun, et jooga eesmärk on luua ruumi ja rahu enda sees ning ümber. Õppida tundma oma keha, märkama oma mõtteid ning müra nende sees. Luua oma loomulikku terviklikkust, tasakaalustades yin ja yang poolt elus. Sometimes, people do not dare to come to yoga class, because it seems that the body is not that fit or there is not enough flexibility to perform all those postures we have seen on the pictures. You have definitely seen yogis who are so light they could stand on their fingers feet up high or postures where you can`t distinguish where are the legs, head or hands. The perception of yoga is different- some think that yoga is all about bending, breathing and sitting, no physical effort has been made. It makes no sense to compare yourself with others, because every body and mind has their time to change. Some things come easily, some don`t. My body hasn`t been always the same: there has been larger and smaller versions of me. I`ve always loved exercising and moving my body, but on the same time I love cooking and eating. So in 2012, I was a quite curvy lady! But it didn`t bother me at all, I had clothes to wear and life was good in every way. I loved myself and others loved me. So it was pretty strange when an acquaintance marked in other day that I`ve become beautiful lately. In my opinion I`ve always been beautiful… Although I was happy with my shape, my health wasn`t that good. I had terrible migraines for years and sometimes I was lying in my bed for days and it didn`t get better. My doctor said that I should take pills every day till the end of my life! It was a shock, so I decided to find out alternatives and changed my diet. I was diagnosed lactose intolerance and advised not to eat so much gluten. I was still cooking a lot, but started to invent new non gluten, non diary recipes, because I still wanted to enjoy my food! I lost some weight, but on intense times I still had migraines, so I started doing yoga. The most important thing in yoga is to start where you are, with what you have. Although I was a bit thinner, I was weak and not really flexible. I've been noticing how my body changed during the time, it become more flexible and stronger. Yoga isn`t secret cure that makes you immediately small and slim. I have an experience of training really hard and eating healthy, but nothing changed. I even gained some weight, because of my stress level was pretty high and when there are no results it gets higher and higher! Yoga is a practice that operates on both levels- physical and mental, so it will surely help you achieve better shape. Yoga teaches to listen to your body and diminishes stress level, that is crucial in losing weight, if this is your main goal. It makes you sweat and engages your whole body and mind. Yoga helps to raise happiness level and happy people are beautiful people, even in round shape. I have seen how yoga makes people sparkle, they become happier and healthier. Even yoga clothes start to take happy colors! Vahel ei julge inimesed joogatundi tulla, I have been dreaming about my yoga video for a long time- I had so many clips in my head, First thought was to make video on the beach during the sunset, then I was amazed by the Estonian foggy fields in the summer evenings or I was thinking about mysterious wild forest near to my summer cottage. On a beautiful morning in July, we went to the Viru bog with my friends and I was stunned by all the beauty of Estonian nature: colours, purity and the mysterious sound of silence. Whereas the Viru bog is a bit far away from my home, we decided to go to Hüpassaare where my family is from and where my summer-cottage is located. It was the right place- pure, bit mysterious and silent. Perfect place for my moon flow:) We used camera of my phone and my sister helped me out. So not very fine quality, but who cares, I love it anyway! Ma unistasin oma joogavideost juba pikemat aega. Oli erinevaid mõtteid ja kontseptsioone. |
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