SCHEDULE in Yoga Nieuw-west Amsterdam
Classes are from 19.30uur – 21.00 uur) and on Wednesday. We are looking into adding Friday morning at 9.30. I will keep you informed.
I leave you with the 5 principles of yoga philosophy summarized by Swami Sivananda.
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“Life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
(Jim Rohn)
As classes are limited for December at Yoga Nieuw-west, I have arranged a special deal with Hotpod yoga Amsterdam and anyone registered with Yoga Nieuw-west Amsterdam to enable you to keep up your yoga practice. You will get the opportunity to try out yoga in a hotter room (actually a specially designed Hotpod) with a wonderful yoga teacher, Mercedes Parellada.
Yoga in the Hotpod
Amsterdam Yoga Nieuw-west members are entitled to a 5-class pass for EUR 25 (normal price is EUR 45) which has no expiry date. I will send the details on how to book with the discount to those of you registered with a Yoga Nieuw-west. If you do not receive the information by email by end of 1 December, then please get in touch.
Hotpod yoga is not far from Yoga Nieuw-west
Tuesday classes start fifteen minutes later, at 8:15 pm.
Looking forward to seeing you in class.
Be present…
Everything else will follow.
Breathing through imperfect lines: Sketch by Natasha Gunn
When used as a tool for self-transformation and awakening to clearer awareness, yoga starts the moment a student first pays attention to what he or she is doing in the practice.
If a student is unsteady, falling, in pain, or distracted by discomfort, the tendency will be to go back into his or her analytical or agitated mind. Sthira and sukham— steadiness and ease— give the asanas their transformative potential.
Being steady does not mean being perfectly still in a pose that you hold for a very long time. Asanas, by contrast, are alive, in each moment a unique expression of the human being doing them.
The main type of breathing we do in yoga is called ujjayi (ooh-JAI-yee). Ujjayi breathing, known as the victory Breath is characterised by an audibly hollow, deep, soft sound coming from your throat.
Ujjayi breathing is not difficult to learn. It involves narrowing the aperture in your throat by gently tightening the epiglottis, which is done like this:
From 21 October, Yoga Nieuw-west moves to the brand new building, just three minutes away from the older location, at:
De Honingraat
Slotermeerlaan 103F
1063 JN Amsterdam
Next week, the Wednesday lesson (16 Oct) is in the old location (Huis van de Wijk ‘Multibox’, Jan de Louter straat, 19,) as usual and at the usual time.
There is NO lesson on Thursday (17 Oct) due to the move.
Namasté,
Natasha
In July we’ll be doing yoga in the park in Eendrachtspark by this statue (‘Love Sphinx’ by Carel Kneulman who is famous for his statue Het lieverdje on Spui plein, Amsterdam). It’s a quiet spot that catches the evening sun.
Regular yoga classes in Amsterdam Nieuw-west have stopped for the summer. Some students have suggested that we do yoga in a park nearby in July. So this is the schedule:
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