November 30, 2022
Today is our batch’s graduation day. So it took me about 2 hours to come up with the title and theme and yet, it feels wrong. I am not ready to end the YTT course yet – perhaps someone is playing a huge prank on me – it can’t…
Today is our batch’s graduation day. So it took me about 2 hours to come up with the title and theme and yet, it feels wrong. I am not ready to end the YTT course yet – perhaps someone is playing a huge prank on me – it can’t…
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.” John 15:19 I have always pondered on the biblical idea of “being in the…
The YTT experience at The Yoga Mandala has just been full of positive and emotional surprises. But since the very first class, , I have made a startling discovery of myself – I LOVE breath work and guided meditation. I wouldn’t say I hated pranayama or meditation prior to…
“Where your eyes go, your mind follows” – Jess @ The Yoga Mandala So what do I frequently look at on a typical day? The answers are hardly surprising, it’s our standard modern life essentials – phones and laptops. I spent hours replying to work emails, and when I…
“Be the observer observing the observed. You are the observer and the observed.” There is an iridescent magic to learning the most profound wisdom in the most simple terms at the most simple moments. And Jess, our teacher, is truly a maestro at that. The journey within through the…
I had recently relocated to Singapore, and with 5 weeks of gardening leave in between jobs, it was obligatory to explore all ideas of how to enjoy one of life’s rarest events – “fun-employment” to the fullest. Perhaps an intensive language course, or solo-travel around South East Asia, or a…
After we learnt about shoulder joints, I tried a few poses like puppy pose. I always felt discomfort around my shoulders in puppy pose but I didn’t know why. I thought it was just because of stiffness around my shoulders. I tried the way we learned : to…
Learning is definitely fun. Many discoveries thrill you. It is not necessarily something new to you. You may have known it, but you were just not so aware of it. I used to use legs to bring them up for inversion poses. I was not using my core, especially…
This is something I wanted to learn from this course. In week 3 and week 4, each of us created a few sequences by ourselves. It was fun for me to make sequences. It was like connecting many dots of Asana to reach a peak pose. You can also…
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