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Sunday, 29 June 2014
Santosha- From contentment and benevolence of consciousness comes supreme happiness.
Monday, 16 June 2014
YOU HAVE TWO FEET TO WALK, ONE TO HOLD YOU STILL AND THE OTHER TO KEEP YOU MOVING
YOU HAVE TWO FEET TO WALK, ONE TO HOLD YOU STILL AND ONE TO KEEP YOU MOVING.
This is when he sat me down and explained BRAHMANA and LANGANA. Expansion and reduction, the hard and the soft, the inhail and the exhail.
We have to find the BALANCE in our practice to understand ourselves. We cannot push push push, as everyday is different. Some days I like coffee and some days I like tea. Not every day I need to do 25 asanas and half and hour of meditation. But then some days I do. Some days I like to sit around and eat lovely food and not think about yoga at all. And those days are just as good as the days when I am up at 5:30am to practice and teach.
My belief is that we need balance. We need to be expanding in every moment, but also turning in, retracting, reducing. The constant dance of the inhail and exhail through our bodies reminds us of our perfect harmony.
NEW STUDIO ALERT!
I have classes at Stretch in Broadway Market and at Columbia Road, so get checking the old timetable for any changes.
I am also teaching a Wind Down class at 7-8:30pm every Friday at Columbia road, which is a great variation from my normal sweaty vinyasa classes.
Also I will be teaching south starting in July with an exciting new studio in Elephant and Castle. So keep your ears open for this little gem.
Also, if you'd like to follow me on Instagram I'm right here-
instagram.com/aquilarose
And Facebook even have a yoga space for me-
www.facebook.com/aquilayoga
If you ever have any questions about classes, 121's or private and corporate sessions please drop me a line.
Om shanti.
Aquila.
Monday, 9 June 2014
YOU ONLY EVER TEACH WHAT YOU NEED TO LEARN
YOU ONLY EVER TEACH WHAT YOU NEED TO LEARN- Seane Corn
I have been thinking a lot about self study this week. Especially in relation to the sometimes daunting timetable that can greet a London yoga teacher on Sunday evening.
This is not to say I am not truly greatful for my luck at a busy working life, but it was more an observation about where my own personal study has time to flourish.
Self study is one thing that my first Indian teacher Vijay warned us about as we headed out into the world with our teaching certificates. He said, 'I have given you all I can, now you have to do the learning. The easy bit is the training, the hard bit is integrating this into your life.'
And, yes, these past almost three years have been a quiet and sometimes very loud battle with myself. To be more forgiving, of myself and others, to accept, to listen not talk, to sit and read the books, to be still and live with the best intention possible. This is my Swadhyay. My learning. And the difficulties that I come across, the rocky roads I go down in my practice I can learn from and bring to my teaching the best I can.
On class notes I have a few extra classes put in with Celestine Eleven's Yoga School. They've been so wonderful and couldn't let go of them quite yet. So I will be there only in two evening classes, Monday and Tuesday of this week. But Liz will also be there to guide you Wednesday and Friday.
And if you like a family vibe come see me at Stretch. The classes are normally pretty busy so please book before you come via their website, click here for more info. We are hotting up for the grand launch of something very special with Stretch at the end of the week so keep your eyes open.
If you have any questions, interesting things to tell me or ideas for collaborations or projects please drop me a line.
Om shanti.
Aquila. x
This is not to say I am not truly greatful for my luck at a busy working life, but it was more an observation about where my own personal study has time to flourish.
Self study is one thing that my first Indian teacher Vijay warned us about as we headed out into the world with our teaching certificates. He said, 'I have given you all I can, now you have to do the learning. The easy bit is the training, the hard bit is integrating this into your life.'
And, yes, these past almost three years have been a quiet and sometimes very loud battle with myself. To be more forgiving, of myself and others, to accept, to listen not talk, to sit and read the books, to be still and live with the best intention possible. This is my Swadhyay. My learning. And the difficulties that I come across, the rocky roads I go down in my practice I can learn from and bring to my teaching the best I can.
On class notes I have a few extra classes put in with Celestine Eleven's Yoga School. They've been so wonderful and couldn't let go of them quite yet. So I will be there only in two evening classes, Monday and Tuesday of this week. But Liz will also be there to guide you Wednesday and Friday.
And if you like a family vibe come see me at Stretch. The classes are normally pretty busy so please book before you come via their website, click here for more info. We are hotting up for the grand launch of something very special with Stretch at the end of the week so keep your eyes open.
If you have any questions, interesting things to tell me or ideas for collaborations or projects please drop me a line.
Om shanti.
Aquila. x
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Strength in a woman
Instagram is one of my favourite activities, post, sharing and also discovering new yogis and their passions and techniques. A few of my favourite teachers from across the pond have accounts that I hold dear on my daily feed. One of them is the magical Katherine Budig. She- the ever insightful, funny, intelligent and most importantly STRONG.
I was watching one of her blog posts about handstand techniques with a yogi friend of mine and I commented on her brilliant shape. I am so used to seeing pictures of very fit, but very thin women stretching and bending into shapes that seem impossible for a woman with hips or ass.
But old Budig has it all and it's a wonderful thing. My friend pointed out that to be that strong you need that muscle. It's obvious I know, but it's the beauty of yoga asana, it promotes strength. Which for women in so many fields is found upon.
I believe to be a balanced woman is to be a strong woman. The times that I have felt most at sea, with no anchor is when my physical strength was at its lowest. I couldn't physically support myself so how the hell was I supposed to guide other people or be a better human on this planet.
And that is where yoga asana helps you then to climb a little higher up the limbs of Yoga towards samadhi, towards higher consciousness.
For further reading on women and yoga check out this link below...
http://feministing.com/2014/02/18/the-academic-feminist-melanie-klein-on-yoga-and-feminism/
OM.
Monday, 10 February 2014
Yoga has ruined my life- has it yours?
Yoga Ruins Your LIfe from Yoga Workshop on Vimeo.
This is a wonderful video from Richard Freeman. What a wonderful teacher he is.
And I am now on the journey with my two teachers, Stewart Gilchrist and Amanda Denton for my SECOND YTT 200hrs. I can already taste the difference with my teaching, refining and honing my skills and technique. It is so easy to lose sight of your own practice when you teach full time and this is a way to come back to my drishti.
I am always striving to be a better teacher, finding different ways to bring people to a space a yoga, to open a space of yoga within people who turn up to the mat.
So if this interests you. Come to my classes.
MON 8:00pm @ 9 Overbury Road N15 6RH £8
TUES 9:00am CELESTINE ELEVEN EC2A 3ET Donation
12:30pm @ Stretch E8 4QU £9
6:30pm @CELESTINE ELEVEN EC2A 3ET Donation
WED 6:30pm @ Stretch £12
THURS 9:00am @ 18 Belsham Street E9 6NG £8
7:30pm @ CELESTINE ELEVEN EC2A 3ET Donation
Friday 9:30am @ Stretch £12
Sunday 3:00pm @ Stretch £12
Also RETREAT news- wanna come and stretch with me and Carl from stretch 13-18th March in Morocco! Check info at stretchholidays.com.
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