Sequencing a class

A sequence is a following of one thing after another: succession. Sequencing in yoga is harmonious, where the whole is more than just the sum of its parts. This is true of pre defined sequences like the Ashtanga Primary Series or Sivananda or Bikram or of self created sequences. I’ve attended so many classes where [...]

I Feel….Therefore I am

When I say I like chocolate, essentially, I’m saying I like the feeling I experience when I eat chocolate. Perhaps it’s the release of endorphins or perhaps it’s just the connection to past experience. Whatever it is, I’ve realized feeling something is everything. If you think something is wonderful, it has to be wonderful, because [...]

Choosing the right Yoga Teacher Training Program for you

If you really intend to teach, then you must find the course that makes the best teacher out of you. Here are some of my humble observations. Make sure that your school is a registered school, both with Yoga Alliance, and local authorities, if you intend to teach and make the most of your certification. [...]

Breath of Life

For some reason modern life places the greatest importance on ‘doing something’. And if you are not doing something, you must necessarily be wasting time, or not getting ahead. Even more valuable is if you can be doing many things at one time, then indeed you must be very capable because you are able to [...]

My Toe, My Hand and the Extended Dilema

My favourite activity is people watching. I love to watch people on the MRT, in long lines, watching shows, in any situation, where I can watch the watcher. I like to look at someone and imagine their life. Imagine what they must be capable of, what kind of a family they have, how they must [...]

Take What You Need

There must be something to it. Waste Not. Want Not. To parents saying, don’t waste your vegetables, there are children in this world who don’t get any food at all. Two years ago, I watched a documentary on BBC on the food crisis around the world and I thought the biggest crime of modern life, [...]

My Yoga Room

My husband and I had decided to move closer to my workplace around a year ago. Its so hard in Singapore to find a home you like, with enough space to swing a cat, and be able to afford it. I had a little dream, although I didn’t voice it……..I wanted a little (well not [...]

Hip Hop

Closed hips, tight hips, stiff hips, broad hips, heavy hips……….I think I’ve had all the hips there were to have, at some point of my life. I still have some of them, but I’ve worked through a lot. So I’ve always been drawn to hip openers. Somewhere in my heart I feel like my greatest [...]

Eggplant Fusion

They say the last person you should take a vegetarian recipe from is one who isn’t a hard core vegetarian themselves. But I feel the best person to take a vegetarian recipe from is precisely the person who is still on the journey to discovering vegetarianism. While doing the Yoga Teacher Training course, I had [...]

Wrong side up

I remember reading a tagline for an ad for Emirates Airlines……..when was the last time you did something for the first time? I think I was around 28 at that time and I thought, if I could then I would just love to be able to stand on my head. Many people would think of [...]