Renee – Teaching session (5/6)
Finally I have done my first teaching during this weekend, and still got one more next week. When I receive Alexis’s email regarding the teaching schedule about 1 month ago, I was so stress and got severe migraine for the whole afternoon lol, no idea what I was so worry about, maybe because lack of […]
Renee – Progression (4/6)
Times fly! We are now coming to the end of YTT and we have lesser and lesser time to practise together. But I’m glad to see my progression and improvement during these 2 months. Since day 1, I thought I am the worse YTT student in mandala history, weak foundation, lack of strength, lack of flexibility, […]
Val – Thoughts as YTT draws to a close
Thinking back to the start of July, I remember dreading the 3-month long commitment for YTT but it literally whizzed by. We’re at the tail end of it, most of us having concluded our community classes and we’re just a weekend away from the practical and theory assessments; it’s bittersweet. Whilst I’m happy to soon […]
ZMao – Of Endings (6/6)
Everything has to come to an end, sometime. These 15 weeks of YTT training at the Yoga Mandala have been a whirlwind ride. We started out as strangers on a crazy 200 hour adventure, and we have all ended having taught at least two classes, achieved countless breakthroughs, and more importantly, gained new found friendships. […]
ZMao – Discipline (5/6)
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee Discipline is a key aspect of the yoga practice and it permeates all aspects of our lives. Every picture-perfect yoga pose, and every flexible body, is a product of […]
Igniting the passion for yoga sharing
Hitting a roadblock in my yoga journey, I have since embarked on YTT to take my journey to the next chapter. This process has taught me immensely, expectantly in my theoretical knowledge of yoga history, in my language understanding of the Sanskrit, in my technical understanding of the physical asanas and in my experiential awareness […]
Pincha Mayurasana
Aside from pranayama, the other goal I had set for myself was to embark on my inversion practice as an advancement and progression in my yoga practice. I always had self-doubts, that I was not strong enough, my arms are not pushing enough, my shoulders are too weak, to hold myself in those inversion poses […]
Theory and Sankrist
I was not aware that the YTT at Yoga Mandala places such emphasis on Sanskrit. Imagine my utter shock at being told to memorise them. Through rote learning and pure memorizing, I’ve somewhat managed to scrape through though I could manage a lot better. However, what struck me through this mundane process of strict memorizing, […]
Pranayama and Meditation
Prior to YTT, I attended my first pranayama and meditation class at my gym with my trusted Indian yoga teacher. Since then, I’ve forever declared pranayama and meditation class to be the toughest class ever for myself at least, and even ‘swore’ in jest to never attend another again. Nonetheless, I recognize and am aware […]
Inception
It was day 1 of YTT. With a heart full of trepidation, expectation, anxiety and thrill, the nostalgic feeling of going back to school hit me again, except this time it’s almost 10 years later. Practical started and it was everything I wanted. Alignments, alignments and alignments! The trainer – Jess’, meticulous attention to detail, […]
