Rocio: Practicing yoga while pregnant

Rocio and her husband were my first “real students”. Before that was just me annoying some of my friends to practice my teaching skills on them. I tried to teach them from my own practice and what I could remember about asana alignment from my classes with Kasia. That was the moment when I realized how …

Ashtanga series: My first Ashtanga Mysore practice

First Ashtanga Mysore practice / Primary Series START: 9AM FINISH: 11 AM It’s Saturday morning. 7 Am alarm rings. Go take a shower. Put on the yoga clothes and my favorite woolen jumper. Mister husband is so kind that he wakes up on his free day to prepare a very small breakfast before my Ashtanga class, a …

First impressions: My first Iyengar yoga class

Last week I attended my first Iyengar yoga class EVER. I’ve been planning for a long time to try Iyengar yoga, mostly because I thought I’m an alignment freak and what better place to be than in an Iyengar studio? I am also super fascinated by the life, teachings and inquisitive mind of Mr. Iyengar. …

Connect the dots. Going home is a feeling

Steve Jobs once said: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” I’ve been reflecting for a while whether or not to write this. In the end I have decided to put my thoughts into words on this ordinary …