{"id":7083,"date":"2015-01-14T21:41:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T05:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2015-02-07T19:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T03:14:42","slug":"harmony-in-the-body-sophisticated-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/harmony-in-the-body-sophisticated-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony vs. Chaos &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign of a sophisticated student = cultivates harmonious and peaceful practice&#8230;<br \/>\nChaotic vs. Yogic &#8230; which do you prefer? Be wise or crazy?  Be relaxed and at peace or in chaos? I know what my needs are; what about you?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maty Ezraty and the sign of a sophisticated student\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3URKNdBpWTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is from another class but found on Utube &#8211; wish I had recorded the intensives too as it was indeed intense but&#8230; under her expert guidance, not once feared getting hurt in any way. It&#8217;s not the self-proclaimed &#8220;torture chamber&#8221; of Bikram &#8211; still just as hard but smarter. She had the total trust of entire 50+ teachers that she will not create a situation that could cause any kind of harm to our body and mind\/ego. When you totally trust the teacher, there is no room for fear &#8211; then you are freed up to let go of yourself more &#8211; because you know you won&#8217;t get hurt under her guidance. No fear when you trust the teacher who fosters trust in yourself &#8211;  When you know the teacher is no longer needing to teach for fame or monetary gains, or to feed the ego &#8211; rather, that she&#8217;s teaching as a way to serve &#8230; as an outlet for her passion &#8211; then that purity invites greater trust and respect. (still, she&#8217;s one Tough teacher &#8211; with a capital &#8220;T&#8221;:)<\/p>\n<p>Last day of the intensive &#8230; honoring the effort we made, being brave to show up (she can yell at you when you are doing something wrong = unsafe), humbled by the practice of yoga &#8211; Namaste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign of a sophisticated student = cultivates harmonious and peaceful practice&#8230; Chaotic vs. Yogic &#8230; which do you prefer? Be wise or crazy? Be relaxed and at peace or in chaos? I know what my needs are; what about you? This is from another class but found on Utube &#8211; wish I had recorded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}