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Don’t trust your eyes …
… trust your gut! You’ve come to the right place! This year everything seems to be different — I’m different. You’re different (I bet). The world is different. Whereas many other yoga teachers all over the world started to teach online, for me this was never an option. In fact, without being judgmental, and with a lot of sympathy for any yoga business, big...
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sub·ti̱ l.es yoga | Back to the Roots
January 16, 2020 – February 20, 2020, Thursday, 19.45 to 21.00// Focus: Feet, Toes and Legs — all Levels
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sub·ti̱ l.es yoga — New Courses
The definition of “subtle” by The Free Dictonary is a. so slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive, and b. difficult to understand; abstruse.
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Lithuanian-Type Pink Gazpacho
Our lovely friends from Lithuania (Lietuva) have awakened my interest in their apparently beautiful little country situated in Northern Europe. It has a Baltic Sea coastline in the west and is surrounded by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east, Poland to the southwest, and Russia‘s exclave, the Kaliningrad Oblast, to the west.
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My Chronic Pain Body
Every Man is a Builder of a Temple called His Body. – Henry David Thoreau Lower back pain has a long history in my life. Over the years I got used to a sensation of stinging pain at the back of my pelvis to one side when I came out of a standing forward bend, twist, or when standing up after a long period...
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Book Review | “It’s Buddha Time”
I came upon this book as I was researching a yoga story to implement into a couple of children’s yoga classes I was about to teach at my daughter’s school. I found the story, but on ordering and receiving the book, I found so much more: We’re living in a fast-paced world where the underlying challenge modern families are constantly faced with is constant pressure – time...
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Anti-Inflammatory Turmeric Tonic
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a tropical plant with stunning yellow flowers that originates from South or Southeast Asia, precisely from western India. Similar to the evolutionary related Ginger, only the “rhizome”, which is the underground stem that grows horizontally and often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes, is used. Only when cut open, the root reveals its deep orange inside.
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SPRING EQUINOX WORKSHOP
„Celebrate, Balance, Cleanse and Renew” – 25th/ 26th of March, Chrishall Village Hall, 10 – 4pm both days The historical meaning of Spring Equinox is the re-occurrence of balance of day and night (“equinox” means “equal night”.)
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Coming Home from Exile
I have just returned from teaching the “Luciously Clarifying Workshop” in cooperation with Rebecca Agouropoulos from Chanting Stork Yoga after having been on a what felt like a very long exile. One of my favourite authors and poets David Whyte wrote: “One of the remarkable things about being human, one of the incredible things is – you only have to articulate exactly the measure...
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The day. I stopped. fighting.
Fighting what? Everything. Myself first. Then fighting against time. Aging. Diminishing. Dying. Fighting for approval. Monetary approval. Social approval. Marital approval. Even fighting against the idea of fighting. My whole life seemed to have been a long, on-going fight. I was simply tired of fighting.