Yoga Report

I taught yoga lecture number 8 in the beginners group this week. Since I have my mother on visit and she is interested in yoga  I gave her the same lecture the day after. I had to translate the lecture I usually give in Danish to Swedish and since my mother’s tongue is Swedish it sounds straight forward but it was not. I actually said something which is neither Swedish or Danish at one point

The idea I have for a yoga centre is a library with yoga books that people can read over a cup of tea. I would like to have both evenings with asana sessions and more theoretical evenings. I would also like to have a yoga room that is open for peoples own practice. You can drop by in the morning for example and do your own program. I would like it to be an open environment where people can share ideas. The goal for me would be that people of all religions as well as atheists feel welcome.

Right now I have the urge to live in a yoga community for some time.  I feel that it is easy for me to lose track of my own Sadana/spiritual practice when I prepare and give yoga lectures. Sometimes I relax by reading science magazines and watching TV and I can’t force myself to do yoga as much as I used to. It is like I get an overdose of yoga. There are many milestones which really affected me. The first yoga lecture I held for a group of people was really something which terrified me and made me nervous. To be honest I felt a big relief once it was over and I could walk around in town aimlessly afterwards. I had the same experience when I taught one-to-one for the first time. To some extent I feel more relaxed about teaching now. The experience I made with teaching is that this is something I have to scale up slowly. Learning by doing I guess