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Posted by admin on April 22, 2012 in General · 0 Comments
My life has been through many changes in the past few months (really years). With change,comes uncertainty and, often, a feeling of being unconnected and unbalanced. Emotional, physical, mental and energetic changes leave you feeling unsettled. So how do you practice in this state? By starting simple. Breathe. Take time to listen to the breath. Feel your breath and notice what is happening in your [...]
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Posted by admin on March 30, 2011 in General · 0 Comments
I am continually amazed by the enthusiasm and generosity of my students! Having started my new yoga classes in Belfast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at Flow Studio, I'm being introduced to more students, some beginners and some experienced. And, of course, they are being introduced to me and my teaching.
Often you can teach for quite a while before you begin to hear what students really think of your [...]
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Posted by admin on March 23, 2011 in General · 0 Comments
About a month ago I went to a yoga event which included some Yoga Classes in Belfast at Flow Studio, a new yoga space located on Malone Road. There I met Liz Welty, the girl who started it. I was surprised and pleased to hear she had heard of me and my teaching! And so she asked me if I would like to join the current community of teachers! And now, I have!
My new yoga classes in Belfast are Wednesdays [...]
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Posted by admin on March 6, 2011 in General · 0 Comments
We had an interesting couple of days last week.
We had to rescue two lambs that had managed to separate themselves from their mums by entering the putting green! Needless to say, all were very happy to be reunited!
We saw the Grouse that lives near us for the first time this year. Spring must be on it's way!
And we saw a badger on the way home the other evening.
Whenever i encounter nature [...]
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Posted by admin on January 18, 2011 in General · 0 Comments
Anyone who has discovered how wonderful they feel after a yoga class inevitably comes to the question:
How do I create a home practice?
Do I need to recreate what I've done in class?
How do I remember what I've done in class?
What if I get a pose wrong?
How can I practice without the guiding instructions of my teacher?
There are a lot of differing views on this very dilemma that all [...]
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Posted by admin on November 6, 2010 in General · 0 Comments
As a Yoga teacher in many different venues in N. Ireland, I have always had the issue of ending up with dirty soles at the end of class. Add to this my succeptablility to chillblains from teaching in rooms that are not always well heated (N. Ireland venues can often be draughty). So I thought I would go back to wearing toe socks as I have always enjoyed doing.
So, toe socks are a great piece of [...]
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Posted by admin on October 14, 2010 in General · 0 Comments
We live in a modern world. Most of us live in urban environments where many of the yoga classes on offer are available in gyms. Yoga has become very popular and is available in even the most remote of gyms. So why are there people out there who say it isn't yoga if your class is in a gym?
Many of the reasons there is opposition is in relation to the atmosphere: harsh lighting, tannoys, noisy rooms [...]
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Posted by admin on October 2, 2010 in General · 0 Comments
I happily skipped off to the movies on Tuesday afternoon to see a film I had been waiting a while to see, namely, Eat Pray Love. Having read the book 2 years ago while in Bangkok after finishing my second yoga teacher training with YogaWorks, I was definitely in the right frame of mind to read one woman's travels to 3 beautiful places in the world.
Eat Pray Love is Elizabeth Gilbert's experiences [...]
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Posted by admin on September 28, 2010 in General · 0 Comments
So I attended a Jivamukti Yoga workshop in N. Ireland on Friday Sept 24th. I wasn't expecting a huge turn out on a Friday night so was pleasantly surprised to see the floor filled! The workshop was run by recently Jivamukti graduated teacher Sibylle Dallmann, a lovely girl from Germany who now lives in Dublin and had already been teaching yoga for a couple of years. Like me, once she had started teaching, [...]
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Namaskaram!
Welcome to my blog!
My name is Rain and I am a yoga teacher in N. Ireland. Well, I'm not too keen on the term teacher. I'd rather think of myself as a yogasmith, weaving all that I have learnt so far on my spiritual and yogic path into the classes that I lead, shining a light on the path of others.
What I love about yoga is there is always something else to learn, always something [...]
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