Meditation Technique

My yoga place is perfect here. I have room enough. I can keep the door open which is ideal, because then a fresh breeze comes in from time to time when I practice. It is warm and dry here, 27° Celsius, but there is always this fresh breeze.
It was excellent to move the body [...]

Before practicing I read in The book about Guruji (see below). This time I opened the chapter by Lino Miele, the Italian yogi.
Lino Miele reminded me that the breath is the most important ingredient of this practice, then the movement and to match the breathing with the movements. Focusing on the breath calms the [...]

1. Traditional Ashtanga: In classic or traditional Ashtanga no props are used, except a sticky mat and a blanket. In India I saw that yogis/yoginis put a blanket on their sticky mats when practicing the middle part of a series. It is because of the sweat, I learned. OK, I don’t do it. I don’t [...]

Yogini B has invited us yoginis to practice with her at her house. That’s something. Not everybody has time. Yogini E will come and me. With yogini E, yogini B and myself I can be sure that I will have a most intensive practice this morning. It’s also good that I have to leave my cosy [...]

There are a lot of famous yoginis, like Indra Devi, Shannon Gannon, Vanda Scarvelli. But I wanted to focus on Ashtanga yoga. It astonished me, but it is so. Minimum 90% of the Ashtanga yoga practitioners are women, but I know the yogis.
Is it like cooking: 90% of the cooking do the women and [...]

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“Do your practice and all is coming”, P. Jois.
I am up. It is after sunrise but it is still moring. My mat is waiting for me. Primary today. We yogis/yoginis need a mat and the wish to practice. That’s all. Inhaling pause exhaling pause inhaling….
Pattabhi Jois:
Thank you for buying [...]

Many yoga teachers travel around the world to give workshops, so do the Ashtanga students.
If you want to know what’s going on worldwide, visit the side www.ashtanga.com .Here are the workshops sorted by country: A bit of planning ahead is necessary as many workshops are soon fully booked.
The teacher who are offering the [...]

Ashtanga yoga a mental exercise? Yes, yes, yes, also.
It starts right from the beginning on. 1. Not to discuss if I practice or not is the first exercise.2. Then I usually focus on the breath, but it can be also something else I focus on. And fact is it is not only the breath I [...]

Oh, my practice was excellent at the Mysore class. Second series was on the schedule. The heat here helps so much to bend the body in all possible and impossible directions. Oh, I sweated a lot. When M says “good” when he makes kapotasana out of me, I do not answer back (also when it feels differently [...]

Only 9 times Mysore class before the summer break. This is not much. Then I’ll be on my own for 2 months. Perhaps we ambitious and committed yogis and yoginis rent a room again for our practices. To practice with a group intensifies the own yoga practice. To meet my yoginis at least once a [...]