Ain’t no mountain high enough

As YTTC is coming to a close and with exams looming over our heads, the saying “It’s not the destination that matters, but the journey” has never felt so real. Because I have experienced so much progress though I am not even where I would like to be yet, and I know when I get […]

Improving one’s own practice

Svadhyaya is practiced as a self-reflection process, where one silently meditates, in Asana, on one’s own behaviors, motivations and plans. Svadhyaya is, in a sense, for one’s spirit and mind a process equivalent to watching one’s body in a non-distorting mirror. This self-study, in Yoga, is not merely contemplation of one’s own motives and behaviors, […]

What is my worth as a teacher?

Sitting down with Nicole one day for theory, she shared with us what a teacher should be charging for their expertise and time. It then dawned on me that soon I would be graduating and needed to start thinking of finding students. What a daunting task. Several of my family members and friends have said […]

Teaching experience

During the course, I experienced that teaching friends in the course with me and teaching a total stranger who had limited yoga background was very different. It is a much more challenging task to transfer the knowledge of what we learnt during the course in detail, and still keep within the limitations of that 1 […]

How Yoga has changed my life

4 September 2015 As we take on more responsibility at work, as a wife, mother and building our financial nests, we tend to neglect the most important, our precious health and well-being. Yoga is a good life skill to own. Very often, yoga is only partially understood as being limited to asanas (yoga poses). As […]

Yogic Diet – The 3 Gunas

22 August 2015 I love to eat. I can’t imagine life without food. We are very fortunate that there are so many food options in our society today, both good and bad. Unfortunately, many of us make bad food choices. We choose meat over salads, processed food over fresh ingredients because they are more readily […]

Meditation

29 August 2015 Meditation has never interested me. My ignorant assumption is that medication is boring because it is just sitting there doing nothing. It wasn’t until today, when I was taught the true technique of getting into meditation state of mind, would I have known that meditation is one of the most challenging aspects […]

Yoga in the Nature

15 August 2015 Today is the 11th day of the 200-hour yoga teacher training. After a week of break from the Singapore Jubilee weekend, we are back to the weekend yoga training routine. The idea was somehow daunting from the guilt of no practice for a week and also having sinned pigging out during my […]

Teaching

19 July 2015 Today is lesson 6 of the yoga teacher training and I taught the themed class for better skin tone. This is both exciting as it a new challenge and at the same time stressful, as I have not done this before. I made some miss-cue and my sequence was messy. I obviously […]

Why I took up the Yoga Teacher Training Program

June 2015 I have always been physically active. I used to represent the volleyball team in junior college, participate the tennis club in the university, signed up the gym membership when I entered the workforce. Three years ago, I joined Real Yoga and started practicing yoga, as I wanted to slim down, look good and […]