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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 10:00 PM
I am headed to a weekend yoga study with a highly skilled, famous yoga teacher. A yoga teacher star. The class is in a few weeks and I am giddy to be going, I have watched videos this teacher made and webinars. I think I will learn a whole whole lot.
But today I looked on the part of the description of the class that says "required reading". I noticed there was quite a bit of it. And then I noticed all the books were written by the teacher of the class.
Okay. So I looked on Amazon and found they were not for sale there. |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 5:53 PM
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2016 8:48 PM
My
cousin is a pastor in a progressive Baptist church in town. They have
summer camp for the neighborhood kids where they learn to love reading. And there are some bible lessons. And
there are some creativity and skill classes, too. They asked me to
teach the kids a short little lesson about meditation. I thought that
would be lots of fun.
I decided immediately we should make mala beads.
Mala beads are from India.They
are used in counted chants and meditation. In traditional malas, there
will be 108 beads and then one special bead at the end that is not
counted that marks the beginning and ending spot where you turn around. |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2016 12:10 AM
Studying yoga at Asheville Yoga Center for several weekends over several years. Sounds like a cool idea. Okay. I think I will.
That was the thought a few years ago. I had studied and got my yoga teacher certification. Now I wanted to get my advanced certification.
One of my fellow teachers introduced me in a class she was teaching by saying I was studying yoga in Asheville going to yoga graduate school. I loved the way she put that.
So why would anyone go to yoga graduate school? |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Friday, March 06, 2015 10:23 AM
I had an injury last fall that made my yoga practice much more careful. I could not land hard for months, so no jumping or falling. It was a practice changer. It opened me up to Restorative yoga and to Yin yoga. I learned a great deal in the process.
But slowing down has its price, too. I lost some momentum and started having a hard time motivating myself to get to class. Also it was cold over the winter. We humans seek comfort and I found myself reading about yoga more than going to class. |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2015 10:14 PM
I recently needed help. I asked for it, which was hard. And I got it. Which was wonderful.
I was amazed at how the people I know who are helpful to others seem to be the happiest.
I wonder why that is.
They are not the most successful or the most popular. But they are the happiest. Which is a pretty good sign of inward success. |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2014 3:19 PM
This past weekend, I traveled to Asheville for a restorative yoga workshop. Blankets and bolsters and straps and blocks and all sorts of props make restorative yoga very delightful. It is easy to slip away and become altered and relaxed during such a class. Intentional relaxation.
So needless to say, I loved it. As did everyone else in my class. We all got younger and younger as the weekend progressed. I felt my shoulder melt open and move more freely than it has in years after just laying around in these comfortable positions all weekend long. |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:30 PM
Years ago, I read a book about making a plan and making it come to life. It was a book about goal setting. About manifestation.
I got that book after going through an old file in a drawer and finding a piece of paper dated seven years earlier (!) which stated my goal of becoming a certified yoga teacher. It was still my goal and yet I had done really nothing to make it happen.
So I ordered the book. It was called "Wishcraft" and it had a dreamy cover, having been printed in the early eighties, I think. |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2014 12:17 AM
I have been teaching in some new ways lately. Sort of going off the grid with yoga teaching in order to try and capture some interest from some new people. It is interesting and kind of fun.
Some teenagers I work with make up their own yoga challenges for us to try in class. If one of them can accomplish the feat, we all try it. It makes yoga more of a game.
I am teaching one on one in a more corporate environment, too. Getting people to just try that has been tricky. So I started decorating and putting up a little stick figure yoga lesson on the dry erase board so that there is some sort of curriculum. |
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Suzanne Anderson: Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2014 9:26 AM
It is fall. Time to take out clothes from storage for a cooler season. Time to look at what I have used and not used. Time to get rid of things that no longer serve.
The yogic principle this relates to is "saucha". Saucha translates as cleanliness. It is really cleanliness in outward ways of life and in inward ways of life, Habits with clothes and possessions as well as with thoughts and people. Yoga encourages us to look at them and see what is clean and what is not clean in all our habits. |
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