{"id":294,"date":"2020-02-17T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katshakti.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:02:14","slug":"my-yoga-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katshakti.com\/en\/my-yoga-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"My Yoga journey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Yoga journey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My journey started when I was just 6 years old. My mum sent me to a hippie kids camp that consisted of daily Hatha yoga, burning holy agnihotra fire, meditation, mandala drawing and vegetarian permaculture. I attended those every summer for a minimum of 2 weeks until I was 12. I really loved those holiday camps and throughout the year, I continued to take Hatha classes, twice weekly with my mum. It really installed the seeker program in my brain. It continued to grow in my search for myself, from then on. My first retreat was a week-long Iyengar yoga. I was 10 years old and it was really tough experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was 13 I fell into a really bad crowd. This experience made\nme quit most of the good habits, exchanging them for less favourable\nones like partying, cigarettes, alcohol and drugs. The next 5 years\nwas quite intense. I was still a seeker but I was using the\ninadequate tools for self-discovery. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long story short, due to some innate wisdom and help from my\nloving mum I managed to kick the bad friends and take control over my\naddictions. This was when I brought Yoga back to my life. I took some\nclasses first and then started doing my home practice. I really\nstruggled with being consistent for the longest time. Between 18 and\n28 years old my practice was very irregular, going from a month of\ndaily practice to 3 months with none, etc. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was 28 I started to study Yoga and its physical, mental,\nemotional and spiritual benefits in more depth. This motivated me to\nstart thinking about Yoga Teacher Training to really and fully instal\nYoga into my brain. 1,5 years later (Jan-March 2019) I completed my\nRYT 500 hours training at Shiva Yoga Peeth (now Multi Style Yoga\nSchool) in Rishikesh, India, following the Yoga Aliance standards. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have learnt so much about my own body and myself. I studied in\ndepth the yoga science, anatomy, pranayama (breathing techniques),\nmeditation styles, yogic cleanses and much more. This experience made\nme stronger, calmer, more flexible and more connected to myself.\nSince leaving school I’ve spent a lot of time thinking which is the\nbest way I can share my knowledge. I started volunteering and\nteaching yoga for free, to a lady with cerebral palsy, who is in a\nwheelchair, which helped is enabling me to develop my own style of\nchair yoga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day in contemplation I realized, that since the training, my\nPMS symptoms greatly improved and the length of time in which I\nexperienced them, shortened which was incredible because I struggled\nwith week-long PMS for years. But there was another surprising side\neffect. Throughout most of my life, I struggled in one way or the\nother, with my self-image and confidence. Since returning to regular\npractice, I noticed that I seem to have more love and compassion\ntowards myself. When I realized that, I started to look at actively\nusing yoga to deepen the self-love, acceptance and appreciation\ntowards myself. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of this, I’ve decided to focus on a further study of the\nbenefits of yoga for women. How to adapt the yoga practice to their\nunique bodies and monthly (menstruation, pre-ovulation, ovulation and\npremenstrual phases) as well as their life cycles (child, teens,\ngrown-up, pre and postnatal and menopausal). \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I teach Hatha and Yin style, as well as chair yoga. Focusing on connecting the breath and movements and bringing in positive internal and external change using the practice, affirmations and creative visualisations. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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