You can tell that I am stuck at the computer screen in need of producing …getting things done … so within a period of a day, I am posting a lot …usually means of procrastinating and dealing with being “stuck”. Very stuck. Ever since Annie Lennox look-alike graced the class, her songs are looping in my head …I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, repeat & repeat …:
Amazing footage … to have learned from him for 25 years? To endure and persevere his tough style of teaching … Respect to Judith and all Iyengar trained teachers.
Luckily Judith took the kinder approach in teaching therapeutic applications – whereas, his style of teaching is very … Asian – strict and tough… you can feel the fear mixed with sheer respect and enthusiasm to learn among the students – they just don’t want to be yelled at. I can imagine Judith was one of those students who was not intimidated and just showed up with bright eyes and curious … her energy is contagious even today! She really knows a thing or two about how to “regulate” her energy level to meet the demands of … life.
SOOOO honored I will be assisting Judith H. Lasater’s Teacher Training Level 2 in August – all about therapeutic applications of restorative yoga. Learning from Judith basically means learning from Judith and indirectly from her teacher, BKS Iyengar.
Realized he is 74 in this footage… Way past the Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-Hour Rule of mastery.
** Noting – that Japanese teacher referred to here needed an interpreter ! A teacher can see through when a true learning actually took place vs. not. Here the great teacher knew right away that the Japanese student did not get the lesson. Why? because of the language barrier. Without the understanding of language, you are not learning anything.
Original cause of my late father’s demise – if only I had known what I know today …sometimes when one is in eye of the storm, we just cannot see so well.
So here are some take-aways from Cardiovascular System Module. We learned that usually issues with the heart is at the peak of the pyramid of other abnormalities or dysfunction that had not been addressed. It’s a culmination of issues unresolved such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, low HRV, Leaky Gut Syndrome, various heart disease. The heart literally aches:
When we are not Present
When we abandon love and care
When we are fragmented
When we are disconnected
All the above, AND when we are not equipped with tools and techniques to “self-soothe”. The heart disease is a manifestation at the peak of the pyramids of cumulative imbalances. For some, heart issues could be something one is born with. Luckily, those people tend to have built up the resilience, having lived with it from birth and not a malaise that developed as a result of lifestyle choices. Disease tends to find lodging in our body as a result of series of “infinite insults” we inflict on ourselves. While not all are self-inflicted, the body endures many insults to such degree that it stops cooperating. Only when we learn to HONOR and APPRECIATE our body, our inner healer re-emerges to aid us. It’s through self love, not by fearing, shaming, berating our body with all its flaws … but to HONOR and CELEBRATE this body made in the image of God. That’s the first step on the healing journey.
Why the reason you have to deal with chronic stress – Yoga gives you the techniques and tools to manage stress and energy level better.
Heart – Heart – Heart – One can’t help but marvel at this amazing organ, developed first in the embryo state, a central unique muscle organ that moves 5-6 liters of blood with each heartbeat. That’s with one heart beat, the entire blood volume is put in motion. I always knew the importance of the heart but marveled at the more astral energetic aspects of this beating heart …
We learned that:
“Heart is more powerful than the brain.”
& our
“Cells need downtime for recovery.”
Common sense? Apparently not put in practice for many of us, where the Heart is treated as a mere pump to “work out”. It’s way way more than just a pump:
(1) Heart is electrical conduction system with electric impulses and looked at as an energy body, has 5000 times more powerful seat of electromagnetic energy field than brain’s.
(2) It is a seat of compassion, kindness and LOVE.
All systems within us, are integrated and inter-connected and affects our heart health.
* All photo credit to Niroga Yoga Therapy TT module Cardiovascular Health & Yoga. This is a very small portion … still reviewing the material to digest it all – Digestive System module is still far-off !!!