Tuesday, August 12, 2014
My great yoga anatomy teacher Leslie Kaminoff: The Teaching Lineage of T Krishnamacharya and TK D...
The practice should always be adapted to the individual and not the other way around.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Perché veniamo manipolati
Ce ne siamo bevuta una che è grossa. L'ego è la mente condizionata. Io non sono l'ego.
Panica dice: "Due forze guidano il mondo: il potere e l'amore". Il potere religioso, politico e militare. Siamo condizionati dalla propaganda. Le problematiche che hanno le persone sono problematiche sulle convinzioni fondamentali che guidano la loro vita. Ma queste sono sostenute in modo forte dai presupposti culturali. Per cui sganciarsi da questi presupposti è difficilissimo. Quindi credo che oggi bisogna occuparsi sopratutto di terapia delle idee.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
La luna incantata. Alessandra Ferri
La luna incantata
Italia - 1992
Regista: Vittorio Nevano
Cast: Alessandra Ferri e il Balletto di Toscana
Cast: Alessandra Ferri e il Balletto di Toscana
Trama: Coreografie di Fabrizio Monteverde con Alessandra Ferri e il Balletto di Toscana e la regia di Vittorio Nevano.
Nel 1992 il film televisivo La luna incantata con le coreografie di Fabrizio Monteverde, prodotto dalla Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, vince il Palmarès d’oro nella sezione Film musicali del Festival della Televisione di Cannes. Interprete divina ed indimenticabile: Alessandra Ferri.
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Martha Graham - Errand into the maze, performance by Terese Capucilli and Larry White
Errand into the maze (1947). Choreography by Martha Graham
Performed to music by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Errand into the Maze premiered on February 28, 1947, at New York' Ziegfeld Theater. The mother of Modern Dance resumes the greek myth of Ariadne imprisoned in the labyrinth of the Minotaur. The theme of the ballet is the relationship of the individual in fear, in this case sexual. It is really about the conquest of one’s inner demons and fears, a psychological journey Graham took repeatedly. Costumes were designed by Graham and the set was created by Isamu Noguchi, who created a sculpture that recalls the shape of the female pelvis. The work was performed by Martha Graham and Mark Ryder. Walter Terry, writing for the New York Herald Tribune (March 9, 1947) noted, "…the demon is fear, the deity is courage. Aspects of the evil and the good, then, in humankind, are given substance for us to regard in that pantheon which is Miss Graham's theatre of dance…It is a distinguished and appealing work."
In this video the ballet is performed by the fabulous Terese Capucilli and Larry White. The Martha Graham Dance Company - 1990
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
My fabulous teacher Carrie Owerko : Exploring Iyengar Yoga Principles (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
Essay of Iyengar in the Tree of Yoga: Effort, Awareness and Joy. Iyengar says that in any yoga pose two things are required: a sense of direction and center of gravity. So knowing where is your center, literary your center of gravity, where is this mysterious center, and where is the sense of direction. And when I read that sentence it really struck me because I thought: "I don't think I always know that. Very rarely actually, if I am really honest with myself". The other thing is (he says) that the weak part is the source of the action. It is true that in analysis you dissipate energy at first. Later you are not, and that is why effort will become less. Direction will come, and when you go in the right direction wisdom begins, then wise actions come, and you no longer feel the effort as effort, you feel the effort as a joy.
Thank you Carrie
Stefania Supriya
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Friday, August 1, 2014
My teacher Cyndi Lee on OM Yoga
OM Yoga is a kind of yoga that I have been teaching for
about twenty years, which is something that arose organically from my own
practice. It is made up of three parts, and one part is vinyasa. Vinyasa means
to place in a special way, so it’s a flowing movement oriented kind of asana
practice that has three elements: arising, abiding, and dissolving. And the
dissolving of one thing is the arising of the next. And how do we pay attention
to that? How do we explore one thing evolving into the next? We do it by
placing ourselves, our bodies, and our intentions in a special way.
The second aspect is alignment. Alignment really means
organizing our skin, our muscles, and our bones physically. But also we think
about alignment as our aspiration and our action: are they in alignment? Or
perhaps there is even a bigger sense of alignment, which we often experience,
which is when we come to yoga and we feel kind of blah at the beginning, but at
the end you are king of integrated, feel organized, feel in alignment with
yourself, feel in alignment with your world.
The third aspects of OM Yoga are the Buddhist meditation
methods of mindfulness and compassion. Mindfulness is always seen in the
alignment, and in the placing in a special way, but we approach all of this with
a round of fundamental friendliness.
Cyndi talking to the students during class: “That is exactly
what happens in meditation! Did you see what happened?! She was there and then
she went away… No problem, you just come back. That is the practice: coming
back. It doesn’t mean you have to be perfect, it means you remember and you can
come back. Beautiful! Utkatasana…
“.
And so, that fundamental friendliness is really the
compassion. We start by practicing that towards ourselves as a way to extend it
towards others. That package is OM Yoga.
Cyndi Lee
Don't Teach What you Know! Cyndi Lee
I just finished a 500HR OM Yoga Teacher Training with this amazing woman.
My teacher, Cyndi Lee!
The Most Important Teaching Tip for Yoga Teachers. ~ Cyndi Lee
Two-hundred hours seems like a lot, especially when you are smack dab in the middle of a yoga teacher training program.
This can be melt down time for many trainees as they face the reality that the more you learn about yoga, the more you realize you can never learn it all.
Mr. Iyengar reminded us of how deep and wide yoga is when he said, “Yoga is an ocean.” The ocean is used as analogy for patience in Mahayana Buddhism’s Path of the Bodhisattva.
Bodhi means awake and Sattva means existence. So, a Bodhisattva is a person who lives an awakened life with the aspiration to help others awaken, too, no matter how long it takes, even more than 200 hours!
This is also one way to think about being a good yoga teacher; to understand that when we are teaching, that is our practice. When we are on the mat, we are engaged in asana practice. But when we are in front of a group of yoga students on their mats, then our practice is that of teaching.
Our job is to pay attention to our students and they become our dots of awareness. They keep us awake and then we cycle that sense of presence back to them.
Yoga class becomes a feedback loop of shared wakefulness. As the teacher, whole-hearted enthusiasm can spur us to share everything we know all at once, but the ocean of patience will help us see how and when to unfold our instructions, moment by moment.
This practice of teaching yoga is a challenging and valuable one. So, naturally, we need more than 200 hours to really learn how to become a confident yoga teacher, full of compassion and clear intention. With that in mind, I thought it might be helpful to share some of what I’ve learned over 30 years of teaching.
I’ve created a few videos offering Teaching Tips for Yoga Teachers. This video, “Don’t Teach What You Know, Teach What They Don’t Know!” is the number one tip for new yoga teachers.
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