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\nFew weekends ago, I went with my gut feeling listening to my inner guide based on what I want vs. where I should be and what I should be doing.
\nThank you M-san for seeking my company to join you. It’s amazing that it’s exactly what I was interested in finding out more …as you can tell by my previous post.
\nFusing Eastern healing methods from different divergent traditions – Japanese Medicine, Chinese Medicine and … YOGA, my passion…
\n& turns out there’s a team who does something similar to what I had in mind ! Kindred spirits! M-san, you are, of course:)<\/p>\n

My mind has not digested all learned so hope to integrate the knowledge over time – someday, it’s all going to spill over:) Currently, just letting things soak… soaking it all within me to tap into like an apothecary… For now, all mixed and seeping out a little by little as I integrate my own practice from all these different styles and teachers… and what I made up that worked for me. (yes, me the laboratory rat, haha) It’s an alternative medicine – and very interesting to listen to people with different issues – someone who just had a neck surgery; someone who has weak knees, etc.
\nBut we all did yoga (yes, it’s possible with injuries) and … felt sooooo good:) because it was gentle but highly methodical. Therapeutic. Effective. Yes, I trained my mind, using mindfully choreographed asanas as my tools.<\/p>\n

When I saw this video and realized that, although, a little, well couple of subtle shades different, she nevertheless, shares much of my own philosophy. I decided YES – I will try her workshop – just squeeze it in – as she basically said virtually everything I had been thinking and churning in my head and sometimes expressing – when it comes to the kind of Yin yoga I teach … although I try more to alleviate or eliminate that “frustration” and discomforts through various tools … THEN there’s the restorative practice, to me, the actual “fascia”kind of a practice, that fuses and melds the yin and yang together… yes, in its nourishing net, the web that envelopes into one the duality in all practices. Similar and different like so many things in life… we need. <\/p>\n

Yes, A LOT of YANG activities in our lives as we are conditioned to “work-out” “get in shape”, so this is a lovely off-set, a counter-practice to work-in, find peace within. Lovely time for meditation that clears your mind and also clears and purifies the body.<\/p>\n

I don’t care about all the academics but “to me” yoga is about purifying the body and training the mind …in whatever form it takes, it’s just a different path we take to get to the same destination. Here’s Setareh on Yin even though the workshop was not so much on yin but on Qui-Gong … which is an ancient practice I also hold in high regard:
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