As practitioner of yoga, I’ve always gravitated toward Jñāna yoga, the yoga of knowledge and self-realization.
I have a 500-hour yoga teacher certification (RYT500) as well as one for Children’s Yoga Teaching (RCYT.) I did my RYT200 and RCYT at a1000 yoga and my RYT300 at Amrutha Bindu Yoga Shala (both in Bengaluru, India.) My profile at Yoga Alliance can be viewed here.
I’ve practiced yoga in America, Thailand, Hungary, and India.
Before I ever began studying yoga proper, I was a long-time practitioner of a system of stretching and conditioning called junan taiso, little did I realize yoga was not really about stretching. As I came to learn, calling yoga a system of stretching is not unlike calling it a system for wringing the farts out of one’s body. It will do so, but that was never the main purpose. Nevertheless, Junan taiso, which I was introduced to as a martial artist was handed down as part of the Japanese martial art that I studied most of my entire adult life, and it did prepare me for yoga.
I currently teach private lessons.
I’ve done work with yoga as part of a combatives optimized physical training (COPT) regimen. This involves stretching, strengthening, and core work designed to prevent common martial art injuries. I’m also interested in the subject of how yoga can be used to combat stress and help facilitate the body’s natural repair work. I’ve increasingly begun focusing on how yoga and mind – body practices more broadly can be used to facilitate quality of life into old age.
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Wow. The aim of your course sounds fantastic! I’m very much intrigued!
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Oh, Great….never met somebody who as ‘Travel Soul Yoga & Adventure’ in his blood stream, as I do….nice to see that a few of us, we are still around. Smile.
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I learn yoga when I was in Nepal last time, but I am very bad with the body coordination, ha..ha.. and ended up I learn Reiki which was very good:)
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Enthusiastic journey
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nice to meet you
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Hi Bernie,
I enjoy looking at the pictures you publish every day.
I’d like to invite you to publish an article on yoga on my blog
Liliane
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Hi Bernie, I ran into your blog when searching for information on New Acropolis Bangalore. You’ve got a fascinating profile. I’ve bookmarked your blog to explore at leisure. I liked your review of Acropolis – a well-written and balanced piece. It helped make up my mind (don’t think will go for it). 🙂 Do you have any recommendations for a crash course on ancient and modern philosophy that also helps deal with life? Also, do you still conduct Yoga classes in Bangalore? Cheers!
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Thanks. I don’t know of any other in person philosophy courses. Online there are good source of information on YouTube, such as Crash Course Philosophy. Though not many of those that I’ve seen look at life philosophy. There are some books like Jules Evans “Philosophy for Life” as well as Puett’s “The Path” and Slingerland’s “Trying Not to Try” (Taoist / Chinese approaches.) “What the Buddha Taught” (Rahula) also has a lot of pragmatic information.
I haven’t taught in some time because of the pandemic, but when things get back to normal I likely will resume.
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Thanks!
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I’m highly impressed with this subject which you published. I wrote some articles about indian yoga and philosophy in my blog. Especially to Raja yoga by Swami Vivekananda. The great yogi and Russian writer, Tolstoy was influenced by the books of Vivekananda.
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I love your motivation, mindfulness, and yoga! can’t wait to know more about your yoga experience. I hope you can visit soarpass and drop some comments there about yoga and mindfulness. Have a nice day!
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