Category: Yoga
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Who am I? Asmita and the stories about ourselves
Along our lives we create successive narratives about ourselves, which try to explain who we are, and fill with meaning the ways we behave. As the years go by, we start to realise that all those clusters have gone one after the other; all the tags we used to define with, sooner or later became…
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Beauty in chaos: free interpretations of the traffic jam in Mysore
The way of getting the real thing about the places is to spend time there, doing nothing special; just sitting on the street, looking at the people. Scooters in Mysore can carry the most strage things: gas cylinders; a big pile of carpets full of colours, almost covering the view of the driver; a red parasol;…
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Not only asana: open your mind as your body
Although you have plenty of free time, being here in Mysore is a strong challenge: a great work on tapas (discipline) to hold you up, and also a big work on ahamkara, the part of the mind we know as ego; a task of dis-identification and letting go of preconceived ideas about oneself. To immerse…
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Diary of Mysore: first week
My first week practicing with Sharatji is over, and it´s been almost two weeks since I arrived in Mysore, India. It was a good idea to arrive a few days before starting. Now I am used to being here, the energy of this place has become familiar and I´ve already learnt how to drive a…
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Ashtanga Yoga and my experience with a permanent injury
I do not know Ashtanga Yoga practice without injuries. In fact, I began practising yoga regularly when I couldn´t walk, during the four months it took me recovering from an exposed fracture of the right ankle. The teacher adapted the asanas and this is how the practice was an important part of my rehabilitation. I…
A little fire 