Sunday, February 24, 2008

LOVE IS ALL AROUND U


hI guys!
Spring is in the air!!!and love is all around you.
do you feel the nature, waking up after a winter sleep?
are you energetic, entusiastic...and everything what goes with it?
my motorbyke is running smootly... and temperature is now almost pleasent. especialy for us, who like hot weather...

Practising yoga?
you should...
i have 7 clases per week, Eva Lina has 4...
DO YOU TEACH A LOT?
try to stay calm...every moment.


on picture it is me and sneza...(we are teaching in her studio)

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

November is Here


Marlie has a birthday, see MarvelousMarlie.blogspot.com

california
warm days
cold nights
almost frost
not quite

the days shorter
the nights longer

a good time
for enlightenment
or
a good book
or
good sex
or
good
night
and
a cup of tea
and a good
book

i already said
a good book
oh well

rereading Shipping News
via fine

not doing enough
yoga
is that true?

i don't know

and i
don't know
is
yust
a sweet
plaze
to life


ciao
chris

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Yust something...




I was siting with my self and try to be present.
Sometimes i am, sometimes my mind yust wondering arond.

ananda

It is part of the game.And it is good to play...
Everything is a diferent vibration.
Sound, colours, smell, anything that we can fill...
Yust diferent vibration.
So it means we are part of it. Me, you, everyone.
And beceause of that nothing is realy matter...
cause everything IS...
and on the other hands
nothing IS...

There is no cup of tee without a tee...
cup is border between tee and everything around it.
One side of a cup-tee
other side of cup-space around.

Where do you ends and space begin?

Robert, somewhere in Europe

Monday, October 15, 2007

Good stuff from Eva Lina


From Eva Lina

Hi,
I also just started teaching yoga to children. The idea occurred after two years of teaching dance to children... However, my suggestions are : a lot of play! I write a short story before each session. Each story includes different animals, trees, tea pots (for triangle pose),...But I also include some other movements, like waving the hands, "flying" around the room... Before we start doing yoga, I just let them move, run, jump....I think they need some kind of movement before they feel comfortable enough to stand, sit or lie still for a few seconds...

At the beginning of the class I tell the children to lie down and pretend to be sound asleep in their bed...or pretend they are the sea and their tummies are waves that go up and down as the wind blows...Or I make up something else...In the meantime I read them the story and then ask them to tell me what they remembered from the story...Then we go through the story together and we try to act out all the things...For example, we are riding the bike to the mountain where we meet the cat, and then later on we meet a dog...we sit on a chair and drink tea from the tea pot...lie on the grass and watch the gasshoppers, crocodiles... Something like that. I even ask them to make up their own story (which is more appropriate for children over 6 years of age).... However, I try to make them use their imagination and creativity, and never force them to do anything they don't want to do. On occasion we did some origami and used the "masterpieces" for breathing techniques...On another occasion I handed them sheets of paper and some crayons and asked them to draw me their favorite animal and later they had to imitate all the animals from the drawings which was a little hard because I was never sure if the dog I saw on the drawing wasn't a crocodile in the child's imagination...

There was a 5 year old boy who came to my class and he was so full of energy that he made other kids jump and run all around the studio...I felt like Arnold Schwarzeneger in "The Kindergarten Cop" movie... So, I tried to give him an important role - he was a leader monkey who had to take other monkeys on a trip from one end of the room to the other...this seemed to work. He felt important and it was easier to "control" him....

There is another thing that I am not sure if I'm right about, but anyway...I don't correct the poses the children do...At least not too much. I realized that they do the same pose differently each time...So I just let them imitate me as best as they can.

These are just some of my tips. I hope you can find any of it useful for your class.

Blessings from Slovenia!

Eva Lina
hali.lina@gmail.com

Friday, October 12, 2007

Hello, and Rain is here in California

waters
today
the first of the real rains,
all day,
cloudy skies
fall
ish
weather
or not
we are ready for it

first frosts hinting
around the corner

and how is
the meditation
called life
treating every
one

ciao
love
stuff

chris