At the magical island Koh Phangan I got to know the Leela game at Shakti Yoga centre with Nadiia. It is an ancient version of snakes and ladders. Every row corresponds with a chakra. The players move from the lower levels of consciousness to higher levels of spiritual enlightenment and …
Being spiritual is always a bit vague and woolly. I kept myself far away from this, but my yoga path awakens also this part of me. This week I’ve read the book The Power of Modern Spirituality and it explained a lot for me. In this book spirituality is divided in …
Until december 2015, I ate meat and fish. Bread with mortadella for breakfast and lunch and animal proteins for dinner like most of the people. At a certain moments I doubted but still ate it because I didn’t know how to replace it. In my education a meal consisted of pasta/rice/potatoes …
This anonymous lady in the rice field opened a world for me… When I was young we used to live in a rural area surrounded by a lot of farmers. We even had some baby pigs in our house who couldn’t stay with their mother. But until now I never realized …
I’ve learned so much on my mat. In the yoga classes of Bikram Yoga Arnhem, Affordable Yoga Paris, RYoga Rome. At my yoga teacher training with Samyak Yoga in Mysore, India. During my self practice at home, in hotels and outside in parks. Of course I’ve learned about how to move my …
A very old book about Yoga, the yoga pradipika, states that a yogi should live in a hut far away from other people without windows and furniture and has to do all day long yoga. Asana’s, breathing exercises, meditation etc. Nowadays some people doing some yoga in front of the …