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TEACHER TRAINING 10-DAY HOT YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PURE YOGA HONG KONG 23 rd October – 1 st November, this 200-hr Yoga Alliance Certified Programme Bilingual Course consists of 10 days full-time training and an additional 50-hr Internship. Suitable for dedicated students and aspiring teachers, the programme is designed to immerse you into the study of yoga. For more information pure-yoga.com or email hotyogatraining@pure-yoga.com 100-HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, YOGASANA, HONG KONG 9 th October – 29 th November, Yogasana & AASFP team up to offer a 100-hr Yoga Teacher Training Course to deepen your practices & transform your life. Open to students who have a sincere desire to study in depth of asana, pranayama, anatomy and more. Recognized by Yoga Alliance USA. For more information yogasana.com.hk or info@yogasana.com.hk or call (852) 25118892. UNIVERSAL YOGA 12-DAY TEACHER TRAINING – PART 2 PURE YOGA, SINGAPORE 31 st October – 11 th November, 100-hr Yoga Alliance Certified Programme with Andrey Lappa. The Part 2 Universal Yoga Studies intensive will focus on different aspects of Universal Yoga with practices that challenges experienced students and are accessible to all levels of practitioners. Students will be challenged to explore & expand upon their personal yoga practice and will be encouraged to develop creative, conscious & intelligent teaching techniques. For more information pure-yoga.com or email events@pure-yoga.com YOGAKIDS FOUNDATIONS TRAINING, HONG KONG 4 th - 7 th December An overview of YogaKids poses, techniques, concepts and methodology developed by yoga-for-children pioneer, Marsha Wenig, There are no prerequisites for participation in the Foundations Training except a desire to help children by teaching about the benefits of yoga for children. For more information yogakids.com ADVANCED HATHA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING WITH YOGANANTH ANDIAPPAN, HONG KONG Advanced Hatha Yoga Teacher Training early 2010 at Anahata Yoga. The intensive training takes teaching yoga postures to new limits and let students set new heights in advanced Hatha Yoga practice. For more information anahatayoga.com.hk or call (852) 2905 1822. 100-HOUR TEACHER TRAINING WITH MICHEL BESNARD, SHENZHEN 22 nd January – 6 th February 2010 100 hours Teacher Training in Shenzhen, China. For more information yogasana.com.hk or call (852) 25118892. HATHA VINYASA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, KOH SAMUI, THAILAND 2 nd - 27 th February 2010, with Stephen Thomas (E-RYT 500). If you’re looking to go deep, expand your practice and become a yoga teacher, join Stephen Thomas for a 200-hour Yoga Alliance course centered around the in-depth studies of the authentic study of yoga. For more information TeachHathaYoga.com VINYASA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, KOH SAMUI, THAILAND 1 st – 29 th March 2010, with Michel Besnard (E-RYT 500). With over 30 years of practice and teaching experience, Michel stands out as one of Asia’s most-experienced and knowledgeable voices. He combines the power of Ashtanga and alignment of Iyengar to deliver a solid foundation for aspiring teachers. 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Course. For more information yogasana.com.hk or TeachVinyasaYoga.com or call (852) 25118892. RETREATS YOGA AND MEDITATION RETREATS WITH KIM ROBERTS AT THE ZHIWA LING HOTEL, PARO, BHUTAN 28 th October - 1 st November, 25 th – 29 th November, 23 rd – 27 th December “Change Your Mind” retreats allows both newcomers and seasoned practitioners to deepen practice in an environment highly conducive to spiritual study. Single & Twin share from US$1,795 to US$3,300 per person. For more information papayayoga.com/zhiwalingretreats, or email Kim Roberts papayayoga@gmail.com SALESIAN RETREAT HOUSE, CHEUNG CHAU, HONG KONG 30 th October – 1 st November, Yoga Retreat with Kathy Cook a certified Iyengar teacher who has studied with the Iyengar family and has over 16 years experience. The retreat house is at 21 Don Bosco Road, and is a lovely 20 minute walk from Cheung Chau Ferry Pier. For more information email Kathy at Kathy@yogawithkathy.com. YOGA BODY, BLISSFUL MIND RETREAT CHIANG MAI, THAILAND 7 th – 14 th November, with Will Senn Lau & Lisa Mak at Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort. Take a well-deserved tranquil respite from your fast-paced city life. Enjoy a weeklong mind-body makeover and be ‘zensitised’ in the beautiful countryside of Chiang Mai. For more information pure-yoga.com or email retreats@pure-yoga.com NEW YEARS RETREAT FOR JOY & WELLBEING 28 th December – 4 th January 2010, A Path to the Light Within at Ananda Cottages - Ubud, Bali . Led by two Kundalini Yoga teachers Gurudass Kuar Khalsa and Rebecca Pflaum, programme includes group experiences full of yoga, meditation, music, mantra, contemplation, games, philosophical discussion, sun, fun and more! For more information balispirit.com. 8
Dristi Santosha ENJOYING THE NOW Kim Roberts Here’s the truth: I am not always content. I sometimes feel dull, dreary and dark. Like all of us, I often don’t get what I want. Just as often, I get what I don’t want. And even though mostly I wander around with a wry smile, frankly, sometimes life feels cruel and coldhearted. In these moments, I forget to be happy. This morning when I walked outside and looked over the high peaks outlined in bright blue brilliance, I noticed my breathing deepen, my mind relax. A momentary calm settled in, inspired by the awesome beauty of nature showing her finest. The contrast to the darkness where I sometimes live is striking. How easy it is to get caught in our own little world, to focus on nagging details and negativities; to rest in a state of discontent, or rather to run after anything we think will help us alleviate it. The more we seek contentment, the more it eludes us. A peaceful mind is our natural state, and yet due to our inability or unwillingness to remain fully in the present, we wander in endless pursuit of happiness, only to have it elude us. This peaceful mind is in the experience of fully, consciously experiencing the present moment. Standing there staring into the immense space created by sky and mountain this morning, it seemed silly to waste a precious instant of this extraordinary life complaining about an injustice, an unfulfilled desire, an unwanted intrusion. How insignificant these phenomena seem in comparison to the utter stillness created by the forces of nature. So today, I decided to ally with the stillness, instead of the chatter. If we can take a step back to see the larger picture, our complaints become insignificant. Tomorrow, next year, in 100 years, will it matter? What we take to be so important, if viewed from a larger perspective, is but a wrinkle in the fabric of time. Events unfold in a time-frame, or return again and again, only to be consumed by the stillness, the vastness of space. We spend our lives fixating on particular aspects of phenomena that we either want or don’t want. Caught up in the appearance of reality, we ignore the real, which is simply the spacious clear awareness of that appearance, without any of our opinions added. And immediately, once this awareness is recognized, there is peace. Some of the happiest moments of my life have been to the outside onlooker quite banal, read: boring. Walking on a mountain trail on a brilliant blue day, indulging in my favorite food, sharing a quiet moment with someone I love. What makes us believe there is anything better to attain? What keeps us striving towards an illusory happiness and away from the true gift of contentment that is right under our noses? In a word: desire. We mistake desire for contentment. We have this mistaken belief if we would only get what we want, we would be happy. But guess what? It’s not true. Quite often attaining our goals brings more suffering than before we had attained them. If we would abandon our incessant desire, we glimpse our natural birthright: a constant state of contentment. But try to tame any unruly mind and ask it to remain joyful, satiated and jolly, and it’s like asking a raccoon not to have fur. Or a tiger not to gorge on the bloody prey before it. It’s our nature, the original sin, if you will. Yet this downfall is also our boon. Because of this whiny undisciplined mind that claims to know what is right for us, we have freedom to choose. We have consciousness. And so these very distractions and diversions into the darkness become the alarm – the wake up call to rise from our communal slumber. Wake up. To what? To the timeless beauty of this moment. To contentment. When we notice our whiny mind, it is the signal to wake up, take a step back and look at the big picture. Circumstances are elusive, changing, and impermanent. Contentment means not being swayed by these external shifts in circumstance. We already have everything we need to be content inside; our state of mind is absolutely independent of our surrounding environment. But we have to 9
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