Author: Kay T. Ananda

Yoga brings Joy!
Joy to your body, heart, soul and allows your mind to settle all the debris to the bottom of the lake, ripples gently subsides so that like that shining water, your lake in your mind is still and crystal clear. Only then, you can find your truth... when your mind clears and all distractions are gone, leaving you - stillness and clarity. Peace.
Dog is doing yoga all the time and brings you laughs!
Anger is borne out of fear; how do we find that fearless path of inner peace?
Why Bark when you can Wag to express your JOY Joy joy !!!???
無心でしっぽをふる喜びを表すあの子犬のようなJOYを糧に無理ない、各自のコンデイションに寄り添いながらもチャレンジ精神をとりかえす…そんなヨーガを：）
全米ヨガアライアンス公認ヨガ講師養成コース修了、リストラティブヨガ指導者認定登録、アメリカRYT500登録インストラクター、800hrsヨガセラピーIAYT今現在一瞬ThisMoment&NOWをCELEBRATEするカリフォルニア＊ライフ！

帰国子女としてニューヨーク、テヘラン、カリフォルニアと転々、いずれ東京に帰る意識で日本語高等部卒大卒後シリコンバレーにとどまる。ヨガはカリフォルニア州立、バークレー大学時代、ストレス解消に効くと教授に教わり試してみるが... 合わずジャズサイズ、ウェイトトレーニング、エアロビックスのクラスに移転の２０代、３０代、産後、過労で体調を崩し大病も治癒。死ぬかと思った～大病後、久しぶりに足を踏み入れたヨガスタジオのヨガが大学時代のスローでポーズごと器械体操ごとく、つまらなーいヨガとはまったく違い進化していた。流れる踊りの振り付け的なヨガに魅せられる。数々の流派があることを習い、数種類のスタイルを試す。ビクラム、ホット、アイヤンガー、ヴィンヤサ、アシュタンガ・パワー、などなど。数年前サンフランシスコにて、ヨガアライアンス認定インストラクター養成を経て、インストラクター証書習得。同じ年にキッズヨガインストラクター証書ゲット。リストラテイブヨガ、インストラクター認定、陰ヨガのインターン、アシスト後、陰とヴィンヤサ、レギュラーハタクラスを教える。又プライベート、セミプライベートレッスンをクライアントのニーズの合わせ、ヨガセラピストとしてセラピー集中ヨガ提供。その為に２年間のアドバンスコースに挑みｃ－IAYT証書習得！ヨガ療法士としてIAYT(国際ヨガセラピスト協会）認定のヨガセラピスト、C-IAYT(Certified-IAYT) １０年以上、ベイクラブ、ヨガスタジオ、シリコンバレー社などで子育て中週４－５回レギュラーレッスンの講師を務める。３月２０２０にあの頃は最後とは知らずの週２教えていたスタジオにてのインパーソンヨガクラスを後に…遠方介護ニーズとコロナ禍を機に当分はパブリッククラスリードからはリタイア。
自分自身が心と体の調和で得た平穏…日常の小ちゃな事に見出す喜びをヨガ愛好者のどなたとでもと共有できたらと願うばかり。ジョイを共有し、ジョイフルライフを。そう、もし犬に例えるのであれば、恐れや威嚇で吠えまくる犬ではなく、シッポふりふり笑顔で愛と喜びに満ちた心持をヨガを通しシャア。恥じる気持ち等恐れず誰でもできる自身ジョイフルヨガを肝に銘じりたい。LOVE LOVE LOVE:）Shanti Shanti Shanti:)

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Beautiful Rituals Beautiful Things

Did you know?

it’s COSMIC:)

Went out last night with Mitsu to admire the moon … hanging so low on the horizon.

and I am in much anticipation of tonight !!!
On Wednesday night – that’s tonight – we see the year’s lowest full moon ! What joy:)

According to NASA, low moons are supposed to have an orange tint, apparently due to the thicker air near the horizon. Such orange or amber color is the origin of the term, “Honey Moon” and our baby Mitsu is SO that … She’s HONEY colored and is so sweet. My little wolf-fox, Shiba, kind of like Shiva:)

Back to the luna-talk: It’s the first of TWO full Moons in the month of July, 2015, and whenever there’s more than one full moon in the month, that second full moon is called the… Blue Moon… which happens every 30 months on average that’s, two and a half years.

Tonight though … it’s going to be HONEY colored … and BIG:)

By the way, did you see this last night? Venus and Jupiter conjunction ! Here’s the old news that reminds us that the Universe is moving and changing moment to moment and we are each but a small spec, a spark…like Venus and Jupiter, yoking the body and mind … our spirit free and bright… our individual consciousness merging with the greater universal consciousness when we stop what we are doing and take in the natural wonders filled with beauty:

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Beautiful Rituals Beautiful Things

Broken Things III

when-japanese-mend-broken-objects

Saw this on FB via a friend I have not seen for a long long time … Hope she’s okay …

By the way, a ritual of tea ceremony with this tea bowl could only be exquisitely beautiful… as I recall the hostess teaching us that once we are served the bowl of tea, the proper manner is that we admire the design and artistry of the bowl politely and then turn it so that the most beautiful part faces the rest of the guests at the tea party … then take a sip … the broken fused with gold, the unique facet, that golden jagged “spark” is sure to face the world, stronger.

In a Wabi-Sabi world, there is no perfection, never a completion, never an end … and
that’s why
it’s beautiful,
in an imperfect perfection.

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Full Moon tomorrow … in alignment with nature, shifting taking place in my own practice, having completed Srivatsa Ramaswami’s 20 hrs. certification program plus sitting in on his lecture, “Yoga and Internal Organs”. Making connections across borderline while appreciating the unique cultural heritage that’s one’s own. More you study something, more your realize it’s not whether something is the oldest or older and therefore, superior or better; OR if something is correct or incorrect OR if one style is better than another – all I can do is treat my body as my own experiment by experiencing the feelings (for some, sadly, it may be pain or numbness but there’s the mind) to develop what’s uniquely my own blend from all the teachers I learn from.

Who really cares about these credentials as there are so many with 200 hrs. this and 500 hrs. that and add on more and more credentials, if the teaching is not what you actually breathe and live in – and if you are so self-absorbed, you are not seeing the student with what Judith calls the “tender eyes”. If what you say and do is not all that authentic, would’t that kind of disconnect separate rather than unite? So … I am first to admit, I am not my own guru – there are gurus and masters who really spend not just 200 or 500 hours but their lifetime gathering the tools and skills – we are blessed with & we need to learn from them while they are willing – Those are not part time yoga practitioners like many of us – they have dedicated their lives – and – I want to learn from them while they are still teaching. They are gems … that shines in the mud that’s our drama, the suffering, the tension.

My soul is grateful for having a body that can feel; and having a mind that can imagine and think. Organizing notes from 20 hours with Srivatsa Ramaswami – hope to share either here or in person:) as I figure out how to incorporate the wisdom into our everyday-lives. Namaste.