Gwyneth Paltrow talk about Asthanga

Thai commercials, funny!

Some photos from the past weeks

Mum and Tea outide our house

Saturday dinner, cucumber ritha and fried bananas with paner!

Sunday breakfast at Anoci garden

Dinner night out with mum

Me and Mum ouside Pattabhi Jois shala in Guculam

Eliane, Tea and mum in Guculam!

Mum getting her nails done

Mum at the market

Practise basic living, Asthanga philosophy!

To practise social health is the roots of Asthanga yoga, even thou you think you are a good person, you can always become better by practise. The two frist limps of all eight, explains how you practise social health to become a good person, moral codes. Yama, the first one describes how you should live in the world, how you treat other people, non violence (mental verbal, physical), thruth (mental, verbal, physical), non stealing (mental, verbal and physical). Niyama the second limp is self discipline, how you treat yourself, to pure your mind and body. Its all very basic things that I think every humanbeing should practise in their every day life. When you come to a point when you think you are good you can always do better and you need to be more aware.

Picture your mind like a glas of water and behind the water glas its a red rose that makes the water look like red water. But its just an illusion. Thats how every day life makes our mind (the water) unpure by fluctionations (red rose). To get rid of the fluctioations you practise the eight limpt of Asthanga yoga. You try and make your mind and body pure. You try and seperate the rose and the water so you see the clear water in the glas. So many people dont know what to value in life  coz we all have alot of fluctionations( me too), exampel to eat food thats good for you instead of buying expensive cars and houses. Invest insted in your body that you have to deal with the rest of your life. Realize to be "non attaced" to things, coz that makes you want to defend your attacments and you become greedy, "non attached" to alot, material things, people, life ext. AJay said one day," I try and teach you guys yoga. I tell you how you should take the food towards your mouth with a spoon but I can not swollow the food for you. I can just tell you to bring it straight into your mouth. The effort you put into learning you have to realize and make your mind sharp. You guys put alot of effort into earning alot of money but you dont know what to spend it on. You dont know what to value in life". And its so tru, thats why so many people are confused, I think. Its just so easy if you go back to basic living and start following where your gut tells you to go. Trust your gut, not always your mind coz we have alot of fluctioations to deal with, and I have so many but I try to understand them and be more aware. Then its good to have a teacher like A Jay, when you are in the shala he reminds you to not fucous on life ouside the shala, like family and food, in the shala its Yoga asana nothing els. The worst pose for me is Savasana, the relaxing pose when you just lie down on your mat in the end. My mind is everywhere, especially breakfast! Or now when I have so many idees what to make of my saris, he he!

To practis physical helth you have the Asana and Pranayama. Asana is the poses and Pranayama is the breath control. Its amazing how you can control yourself with your breathing. Without my breathing I would have not made it this far in my asenas. Its amazing how deep down in yourself you can reach when you control your breath. I am really bad in some poses, to breath propper, sounds like I am in a respirator.

Then you have the mental health which is, controling yor senses Pratyahara. Its important to control your senses like hunger, thurst, sexuallity ext to find a balance and understanding what your mind and body tells you. Concentration, dharana is the sixth limp. Concentraion you need to fucus and reach towards your goals and it makes your mind steady.Try and have concentration in evything you do and dont let your mind be flowing around.

Then you have the spiritual health, whish is the more comlicted limp, I think. Ist hard to reach this higher level of speriuality, but you do it when you practise mediation  Dharana and with time you should come to self realization, Dhyana, whish only real Yogis do. I havent come that far but I am trying to practesing at least the basic limps of Asthanga yoga wish is hard egnought. I think all of ous who ever have been in love with another person is spiritual, even thought many of us would not classify themselfs as being spiritual.

Now you know I bit what Asthanga yoga philosophi. I feel like the asanas is making me a little bit attaced, its like a drug. But its makes med happy, and thats what I need to be a better person and value the right things, like the people I love and make me happy!

Friday treat

                                                                  Friday Mohito!

Inspiration, Madonna...

" “Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can’t rush. You can’t skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can’t judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.” Madonna.

Madonna practices Ashtanga yoga, which is a style which encourages more dynamic movements and transitions between the postures. Ashtanga yoga can be an effective cardio workout as well as a isometric bodyweight bearing exercise.
Madonna began to practice ashtanga yoga (the Vinyasa style) to get back in shape after the birth of her daughter, Lourdes, in 1996. At this time she was with fitness trainer Carlos Leon who became her personal trainer. He may have been the source of her inspiration to adopt yoga as a way to stay in shape. Now almost 12 years later, she is still in great shape, and has recently started a new world tour. For a 49 year old (50 years old this August) she is doing very well. So, what does Ashtanga yoga involve?

Ashtanga yoga practice consists of six progressively difficult series of linked postures, each requiring between 90 minutes to three hours to complete. Each sequence typically begins with 10 Sun Saluttation and the standing poses. This is referred to as the “opening sequence”. The student then moves to either the Primary, Intermediate, Advanced A, B, C, or D, depending on his or her skill level, a back-bending sequence, finally closing with a set of inverted postures, referred to as the “finishing sequence”.

Ashtanga Yoga is traditionally taught in Mysore style (supervised self practice), where each student moves through the practice at his or her own pace and level. So, astanga yoga is not like the average yoga class you are likely to find in your local gym or village hall. It is much more dynamic, and requires a greater level of strength, coordination, balance and flexibility than other styles. This is why this form of yoga keeps Madonna in such great shape."


This great artical I found on Yoga Mums website. I think Madonna is a big inspiration to a lot of people. Her strenght and body is amazing for beeing 50 years old. What I love about Yoga is that what you achive in your practice your body remebers. If you just keep practising you can stay strong and flexible a very long time, and your body will be able to feel good even though you are getting older and stiffer. When I started Yoga, I realized  how weak I was even though I had a lot of muscles. Thats why you can never judge someones strenght on how the person looks. My Yoga teacher always talks about the inner power, the "Bandha" work, meaning the muscles you use when you laugh, cough, or sneeze. But coz of my Muaythai I have a lot of muscles that protects my bones. In Yoga you have to take it very slow to not injure yourself, but I am very lucky to be as strong as I am to be able to come this far as I have done. If  I hadnt been this strong I would have had to take it way easier and slower, but thankfully my body adjusts easy and I use my strenght and muscles not my bones.

Today Ajay said after my back bends: "Next week we start more intensive back bends". My God, I thought. Even more... Tea laught and said after class " I am not jealous of you, you will have a fun week next week". This week was hard, but both me and Tea is staying strong though. Happy to have her so we can inspire each other and keep steady even though its hard sometimes. Wouldn't have been the same to do it alone!     

Come on, belive in people!

Why do people that are doing good in life, like achieving something hard, assume that people are jealous and envy you in a negative way, coz they might not be able to accomplish the same things? If you think like that, people will behave and act that way. But if you approach people with an attitude like you are someone who wants to inspire them insted, you will end up being overwhelmed with love and compassion. I know you think that there will always be people who criticise the people who do good, but its you who create them if you think they exist! People are good, if you just belive in them. Or do you have another way of looking at it?

Just some thoughts I have had while looking at facebook statuses.