Oneness Yoga & Healthy Lifestyle in Silicon Valley/Bay Area
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:)
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.
Rumi
How DO YOU harness that “life-force”, that vitality, that ENERGY, that sense of flow in fields of power within especially during this time of uncertainty, immobility and fears ?
Re-charging and renewing through a mindful self-care practices.
Yoga on and off the mat – builds energy … the vibrations within the flow.
It’s a consistant regular practice over and over … listening to your body and noting with awareness the flow of your breath to your movements.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Eerie SFO
Takes a very brave soul to travel abroad these days … Someone determined and committed to continuing the journey embarked upon as air travels pose a challenge during a worldwide pandemic.
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
George Addair
So much fear when we can no longer travel with freedom and ease – the tension and fear in the air is palpable. I too fear so much when there’s a knowledge that we may not get to see someone for a long long time. The sense of loss … is heartbreaking but we have to let go. At times, we have to let go and allow your love to fly … far. Parting, saying farwell – looks back once to give a wave of goodbye then not turning back the travelor moves on and disappears beyond security checkpoint … airports can be such a painful place. We part putting on brave faces.
I used to LOVE to travel but now, it’s not the same when we know the borders are closing and opening depending on the spread of the virus…Borders may again close – we don’t know – and that uncertainty of not knowing and knowing that plans can again be easily cancelled and ruined – that – uncertainty is the new normal, our challenge. When a nationstate’s entry regulations could change from one day to another, we must be prepared for that reality and remain FLUID. This uncertain times of unease and anxieties calls for us to be flexible and fluid – we have to overcome our fears and negativity with all the tools we have been given – to joyfully surf the waves of uncertainty and finding our own flow, our center, undulating and swimming within.
quartered english muffins – wish we had Japanese toast bread too …
Italian marmalade, Irish mugs, Japanese tea pot … it’s a melting pot
A little early but a tribute and remembrance of my late father who passed on in month of August.
He loved good marmalade spread on buttered Japanese bread toasted golden. It’s odd for a Japanese man of that era to like marmalade on toast. Apparently it was influenced by his English teacher, late Mr Ford, an English gentleman professor at Keio University. Hard to believe but apparently my father was a very good student of English and even starred in some acting roles on stage for the English plays they put on. Supposedly he was offered a job from BBC but turned it down in favor of … When I found old black and white photos of him at Keio when he was still 20-ish, had to feel my heart flutter… I only remembered him as a stocky middle aged and greying older man so it’s so cool to see the young and dashingly handsome??? man with shining bright eyes who later became my father.
We sampled 3 varieties of Marmalade of which 2 were given to us by a lovely friend. These are all Italian… next time we will taste and compare English and Californian marmalade. If my father were alive he’d ask for another cup of earl grey milk tea.
Maybe during this time, it’s time of reflection, gratitude in spite of it all – all the mindfulness practices to not only survive but thrive … living yoga on and off the mat.
