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Pure Yoga Blogs
Joanna: Fish out of water
Hong Kong. Updated: 19.08.08 |
My name is Joanna and I have been practising yoga since April 2007. I enjoy writing and I thought it would be fun to share all the questions, frustrations, giggles and fears that our yoga journey presents.
Off the mat, I am a water baby. I love swimming, scuba diving, freediving and snorkelling. I also have a part-time job with Hong Kong Dolphinwatch and I love to take people out and introduce them to the beautiful dolphins that we have in Hong Kong.
I look forward to meeting you in class! |
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April:「瑜」樂無窮
Hong Kong. Updated: 15.08.08 |
硏習瑜伽已差不多三年了,起初只待之以普通健身運動,但現在瑜伽已融入自己的生活,PURE亦成為我的第二個家。一星期五天的練習,偶爾參加工作坊、訓練課程等,都使我獲益良多。除了追求健康身體,也讓我明白個人修養、德行的重要,希望在這裏跟大家分享並共勉之。
寫網誌對我來說絕對是個大挑戰,本人是個科技「呆蛋」,電腦只是用來收發電郵,或找尋資料。所以在此先鳴謝兩位「高級技術支援顧問」(實情是我的寶貝女兒
迫我這樣介紹她們),多謝她們悉心教導和支持。
網誌內將有不同的題目,如…..愛老師、愛練習、愛看書、愛世界等,分享我的「瑜」樂無窮。讓我們在瑜伽路上一起學習、成長,亦希望把我們的正面思想、喜樂與和平帶給身邊人。
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Franck: In the Flow
Singapore. Updated: 15.08.08 |
My mother always told me to introduce myself to strangers, especially when I am about to drown them in unnecessary and one-sided perspectives on my World. Being the good boy that I am, and usually keen on keeping my mother content, here I go.
You may know me as a teacher or a friend, a passing encounter or an old comrade. Passionate and intense by nature, I have gone through many changes and striven to drink every experience that Life poured onto my path. And yet, I am still learning to pause and absorb the essence of each instant, and let each moment create the next. Son, brother, dreamer, control freak, devoted soulmate, free thinker, joker, best friend, catalyst on fire, reliable shoulder, work in progress or dedicated cook, I am a wandering Soul trying to fit all my faces into the one Identity I have been granted in this Life.
So here I am, imperfect yogi, student of the Flow, teacher of the song that Yoga wants to sing through Us, celebrator of Life and avid worshipper of Prana Shakti, to share my thoughts, document my late-night elucubrations, stoke the fire of our growing Community and hopefully keep you interested in the trivial events of my Journey in the Flow.
'Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever' (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Elonne: Weekly Incitement
Taipei, Taiwan. Updated: 10.08.08 |
Every day at least one student asks me a question that I am sure other students have but are either too shy to ask or don't know how to ask. I have questions myself, since I too am a student. In this blog I'll attempt to answer some of those questions, with the hope of reaching a wider audience and starting some kind of dialogue, communication.
To mix things up a bit, I will often get other teachers' insight. Not that we have the right answers - and please let me know if you have something to add or if you think we are completely off the mark - but maybe answering some questions will encourage and incite more questions. Really, the question is far more important than the answer, since it is only by continued inquiry and introspection that we can begin to make sense of it all.
If you have a question of your own, feel free to write in. I can address some of them in the weekly blog.
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Magnolia: Kriyashakti
Hong Kong. Updated: 03.08.08 |
I spent much of 2007 at the Bihar School of Yoga ashram in northern India. It was there that Swami Niranjananda Saraswati gave me the name Kriyashakti Saraswati. My first thought was 'Excuse me is this right?' I wanted to tap him on the shoulder tell him there's been a big mistake. Why would I want a name that could potentially exaggerate or enhance the parts of my personality that I'm already having a, dare I say, hard enough time with? I like to question my guru playfully, curiously and lovingly. I poke my snout in the spaces between his sentences. He just laughs at me.
Kriyashakti is a sanskrit word that means using the power of thought to manifest things in the physical plane. It's the science and art of materializing your wishes with pranic energy and thought power. That's my name? Doesn't this require taking full responsibility for actions, words and thoughts? What a delicate process...a very narrow path. I guess now my sadhana is to learn as much as I can about this mind that whirls and twirls like a salsa dancer's flounce miniskirt. One swami in the ashram told me I should extend my stay for a few years so I don't blow anybody up...really?
I'm jumping on the blog bandwagon to share this life and mind with you, in its most temporary and impermanent form. I will share all the pain as well as all the beauty. At times it may inspire a smile and at times it may ignite a spark of anger. But don't worry, I won't blow anybody up, at least I'll try my best...wink wink
www.magnoliashtanga.com
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Alex: Tracing the Source
Manila. Updated: 02.08.08 |
We are all students of life and Yoga puts us in contact with who we truly are - beyond our wildest imagination, expectations and fears - and hopefully instils an integration of something that is uncluttered by our conditioning, something that is real at all times. But we live in a world of ups and downs, time and space, name and form so any definition we give to Yoga will naturally be coloured by our environment, exposure and context. I feel grateful to Pure Yoga for the invitation to join their Teaching Faculty. But I'm first and foremost a student of Yoga who lives nine months of the year in Mysore, India where I study Sanskrit and Yoga, and where the legendary T. Krisnamacharya began to teach Pattabhi Jois, BKS Iyengar, Indra Devi etc.
All of these blogs may be personal reflections, wild ramblings and fancy, but they will also give an account of interviews with other Yoga teachers, as well as common practitioners and seekers of Yoga. Yoga displays a great diversity all over the world, but hopefully in our shared efforts to articulate it, maybe we can all become a little wiser to what the great heritage of Yoga truly has to offer us?
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Sudhakar: Blossoming Lotus
Hong Kong. Updated: 25.07.08 |
Welcome to my blog. To me, every one of my student in class is like a blooming lotus, full of energy, emitting pure rays of radiance. Blossoming, opening up, they are growing physically and spiritually by the day. Students are the inspirations on my teaching and my own practice. Devoting this blog to my students, I name it Blossoming Lotus, through which I would like to contribute my insights to the Pure family.
In India, I grew up learning the most ancient philosophy of yoga. Profound and intriguing, this kind of knowledge forms the backbone of my teaching. In face of the hectic lifestyle here, the ancient wisdom also makes perfect remedy. That’s why I would like to pass this wisdom on to you just like how it was passed on to me by my masters.
Sudhakar is my name. Sudha means sun. May you be an experienced yogi, yoga teacher or beginner student, I hope that in some ways I could shed light onto your path of yoga. |
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Patrick: wildlotus
Taipei, Tawain. Updated: 31.05.08 |
Welcome to the wildlotus blog. Simply put, I'm planning on sharing my thoughts and experiences with our Pure Yoga community whether I'm teaching in Hong Kong, visiting Laos or studying in the United States. I promise that at some point it will be educating, sometimes funny, maybe boring, definitely interesting and hopefully inspiring. But at all times I assure you it will be honest. The coolest part is that you can write in any comments you have about what I've written. And if you let us know, we'll even post them on the blog! Enjoy!
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Wendy: 40 days to personal revolution
Hong Kong. Updated: 31.05.08 |
Welcome to the 40 days to personal revolution Blog.
Please feel free to use this space to fully and truthfully express, share and question your experience of the 40 days. The 40 days was inspired by my teacher Baron Baptiste. The purpose of this program is to lead you on your own personal revolution. Health and vitality is an outward reflection of a pure heart and right intent.
By practicing for 40 days it is said that one can re-pattern habits on a cellular level. And let go of all that does not serve you while inviting more of what does. |
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Wendi: Intentions
Singapore. Updated: 22.04.08 |
| I have practiced Hot yoga for 7 years now. A year ago November, I made a commitment to practice yoga every day. Anyone who practices yoga will say that it is transformative on so many levels. I have undergone many struggles in my practice of yoga. I cannot begin to tell you how much it has changed my ways of moving, thinking and being. I plan to share my thoughts on what I continue to learn from a regular yoga practice in the midst of my busy life as a mother to 5 growing children, ages 21 to 6. I hope I will be able to communicate my transformation in a way that will inspire you to pursue your practice regularly and help you to discover the magic of yoga in your life. Yoga is for me, above all, a daily realization of my intentions, good and bad, and a release of the things I cannot control. |
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Pure Yoga Retreat
Hong Kong. Updated: 09.10.06 |
Up close and personal with Pure Harmony retreat goers
Some are seasoned yogis, some first-timers. But all our retreat goers are undoubtedly going through experiences that they’ll never forget. Here are just a few they wish to share - may you be inspired, touched, enlightened and entertained by their reflections… |
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