Jackie the Yogini

03/07/2018

Technology is getting better; the human race is relatively the same as it’s always been! Just perhaps, “weirder” than before 🤪

When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David ...

03/07/2018

A very bitter sweet Summer, if I must say! It is indeed true that the only thing guaranteed in life is change! After a few weeks of thinking and taking a break from teaching, I am finally getting the answers I need to move forward . I feel much more decisive about what direction I’m taking things and I am much more confident than before about the things that previously impeded me from moving forward.

It’s so interesting how the things we fear block out greatness. But when it comes down to survival, fear is no longer an excuse! That’s kinda where I am right now. What I know for sure is that fear has not be very productive nor fulfilling. So what is there to lose if I never had much to begin with?

Move forward gracefully, that is all.

21/06/2018

Festival with my husband this weekend! I am so excited to start my summer in Nature with the one I love most! !

08/06/2018

Like , you start slow. You try to prepare your spine as much as possible. Starting with a strong foundation, you begin to engage the muscles in the back to support your spine as you then open the chest, breathe consciously into the lungs, and take the arms overhead. At this point, you should be able to spot the floor! But sometimes the floor seems so far, and sometimes it appears to be closer than it really is.

PLOP! 💥 You find yourself in in a matter of milliseconds!

🥀So is how I intend on approaching the next 3 months. I’m just gonna drop back, surrender and trust that I am strong enough to catch myself so I do not fall on my face.

🥀I am not 100% sure how I learned drop backs. It was easier than I expected. And I never was a fan of using the wall because I felt like if I wasn’t strong enough to hold a static backbend against the wall (minimal support from the wall) I was only going to compress my vertebrae. I think I focused more on just keeping my legs strong and shifting the weight forward and spotting the mat. I think it only took me 2 courageous weeks to rock forward and to drop back. The journey for others I’ve been told can take years. Either I’m not that patient or, I was just very eager to get them hahahahaha

🥀Finally, home practice! PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! Although people’s energy encourages us to “push ourselves”, I truly believe the real work is done at home in the comfort (or discomfort) of your own headspace. Without a solid, consistent, disciplined practice, it’s hard to move forward. Not to say that will be a graceful transition, but maybe when you realize how crazy we all are in our heads, it makes it easier to deal with the outer world.

07/06/2018

It has been good. But today is my last day for... a Long stretch! I highly encourage you to join me in my Backbend/Chesting-Opening Focus Vinyasa Class at 6pm-7:15 and/or the Gentle Yoga 7:30-8:30!

I love the KMC area so much and it is so hard to leave!

Thank you for being so motivated and open to letting me teach you yoga this week!

-Namaste

05/06/2018

Today, Ashtanga (Vinyasa) Yoga Class for beginners! If you weren’t able to attend this weekend’s 3-Day Workshop, you have one last opportunity to learn the Primary Series as a Drop-In for only 7€, 7p-8:30p at Grace Studio!

We will use lots of props for the “inflexible yogi” and practice half of the series at a very slow pace! All ages and all levels are welcomed!

05/06/2018

SOUND ON 🔊 The birds are making love, not war. 😉🏳️🕊

What can I say? I am a human having a human experience. b-c-a are back and my legs aren’t tired! Today’s practice, I felt strong. As you can see beside the mat, is my home-gym travel kit. It has everything I need to warm up my shoulders, activate my core, and keep my body strong while on the road. You see, yoga teachers (especially teachers)do a LOT outside of the practice to maintain the level of fitness. What many people don’t realize is how strenuous and even damaging to our bodies it can be to teachers to adjust, align and demonstrate for our students when we are not as warm as they are during a class. That is why it is extra important that we make time for in addition to bulletproofing our joints and spine to minimize injury.

Teachers have to go beyond the standard in order to simply teach the standards. Otherwise, how would I survive even my own classes if I didn’t practice my own preachings??? 🤷🏾‍♀️🧐🔥

03/06/2018

Thank you thank you thank you!!!! Ahhhh my 3-Day Ashtanga Workshop was 🔥with attendance and participation and it was my pleasure to share my passion with these Yogis!!! And may I just state for the record, 🇩🇪 Germany blessed us this weekend with Indian temperatures for an authentic experience 🇮🇳😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 always fills me with joy and enthusiasm to teach. It also inspires me to be back here, a place I’ve called home since 2003. I am sad that the current owner will be leaving but also excited to see what new chapter this beautiful dance studio is entering. Thank you again for your time and effort! Until we meet again...

03/06/2018

Only this week June 4th to June 7th at Grace Studio. If you missed the 3-Day Workshop, you still have the opportunity to take public yoga classes with me as I will be stepping in for Macy.

Drop-In: 7 Euros
*Monthly Unlimited 45 Euros
**Newcomer’s Pass 20 Euros (Valid for 30 Days)
(Expiration Dates will be checked for all current pass holders)

03/06/2018

Yesterday, I showed the YogisOfGrace (Y.O.Gs!) another perspective on how to customize the Ashtanga Sequences to their personal advantage and encouraged them to listen their bodies as oppose to their ego when getting into postures.

I truly love giving workshops! Getting to know my students better and contribute to their Yoga journey is my passion.

Day 3: Discussing the 8 Limbs of Yoga, their meaning and how they can transform us; being in the world, but not of the world. You’ll see where we’re going with this at 6p-8p, last day for Drop-Ins at 20€
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02/06/2018

SOUND ON 🔊 Because the birds are singing to us!!

📐Exploring 3rd series of Ashtanga a bit, named after the Sage Kaundinya who predicted that Siddhartha would become an enlightened Buddha. Koundinya was the first to comprehend Siddartha’s teachings and therefore became the first Buddhist monk to become an arhat, or attaining “nirvana”.

📐Many of the postures from the 3rd series are anatomically unreasonable and quite frankly, ridiculous. There must stand a deeper embodiment/meaning to those postures beyond what the eye sees. I decided to look up the Sage, since many of the postures in Yoga (Not just Ashtanga but many Asanas) are named after Sages.

📐To what level must one inspire to have a pose named after them? Even more importantly, what must one do in order to have a voice loud enough to inspire others? Hell, why is that really unintelligent people talk all the time and say nothing? 🧐🍊 These are things I wonder on a daily basis.

📐I just want my message to be spread among as many people as possible.

“However, opportunity will not seek you... you must seek opportunity, Jackie”-

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02/06/2018

Today was a good day. Long and dynamic. No hour was wasted, that’s for sure...

Now, I can finally take rest in a 6-8hr Savasana... 😌

Enhance your perspective.

📿We are all works in progress. No matter how old or young. The work is never done. While many don’t realize there is work to still to be done, others claim that the more they realize, the less they actually know.

📿Yoga vs. Business: it’s a tough mix. It is also a major conflict for me. How do you market Truth and Essence and everything that is but can only be found within?!???? 🤦🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🕉 I need a sign, I need answers!

📿Today was... dynamic and magical. Yes, magical! There is magic only in purpose. I truly love teaching... I feel at home, and I have the desire to share a world [of knowledge] WITH the world.

📿There is only one issue:
Without you (you reading), I cannot teach.

What is a teacher without a student? 😕🤷🏾‍♀️
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Thank you all who came for Day 1 of my Workshop... there is more to come in the next days!