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既然有緣到此一訪，
何妨放鬆一下妳(你)的心緒，
歇一歇妳(你)的腳步，

讓我陪妳(你)喝一杯香醇的咖啡吧！

這裡是一個完全開放的交心空間，
躺在綠意漾然的草原上，望著晴空的藍天，
白雲和微風嬉鬧著，無拘無束的赤著腳，
可以輕輕鬆鬆的道出心中情。

天馬行空的釋放著胸懷，緊緊擁抱著彼此的情緒。
共同分享著彼此悲歡離合的酸甜苦辣。
互相激勵，互相撫慰，互相提攜，
一齊向前邁進。

也因為有妳(你)的來訪，我們認識了。
請讓我能擁有機會回拜於妳(你)空間的機會。
謝謝妳(你)！

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2019年1月22日星期二

The Future of Yoga: 41 Teachers, Only 1 Way to Go

https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/the-future-of-yoga-senior-teachers-weigh-in

The Future of Yoga: 41 Teachers, Only 1 Way to Go

With our community more than doubling in the last decade, yoga is quickly evolving. (Goat yoga gone mainstream? Couldn’t have called it.) This National Yoga Month, we asked respected teachers across the yoga spectrum: what’s happening now and what’s next? Despite wildly different styles, many shared unified perspectives—and predictions.

JESSICA LEVINE

SEP 1, 2017

Sianna Sherman GODDESS YOGA: Lakshmi PADMA MUDRA

Dana Trixie Flynn performs the Cross Your Heart mudra.

Alternate-Nostril Breathing, sri dharma mittra

Sarah Platt-Finger performs Padadhirasana.

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“I think it’s imperative as we move forward into the next decade and beyond, that we restore accessibility and inclusivity within yoga practice. For some time now there’s been a strong movement towards yoga becoming a form of physical elitism, with the emphasis on extreme, virtuosic postures that have little or no relevance to the average person. There are millions of people who could benefit from simple, gentle practices that lead to health, well-being, and ease in the body. When I view the extreme images posted on popular social media sites, I’m baffled as to who these people are speaking to because I’ve rarely met students who are remotely interested in doing these absurd practices. Let’s bring yoga back to the people and that will bring people back to yoga.” —Donna Farhi See also Asana Column: Virabhadrasana II (Warrior Pose II)

Tracee Stanley, senior Para Yoga teacher & Esalen faculty member

“The quote ‘do your practice and all is coming’ taken out of context and too literally can lead to some unhappiness. As students and teachers if we just practice, practice, practice but the practice is incorrect, it can lead to injury to the mind and the body. The body takes the path of least resistance so injuries come, and our mental samskaras can just be further increased by the practice. In practicing yoga, it’s important that we stay away from becoming fundamentalists. No one system has all the answers. Just do the series and you’re going to get enlightened? No, if you’re 54 years old, you’re not going to put your leg in Half Lotus and fold forward in the first 20 minutes of class. Please, that’s not a good idea. Ashtanga is a very, very demanding sequence, and very often I think people take the sequence to be more important than the fundamental yoga principles like ahimsa. The heart of ashtanga is heat, concentration, personal practice. Heat for purifying body and mind, concentration so we see more clearly and make good choices, and personal practice where we test our knowledge, become grounded and balanced. Take these bigger guidelines of the sequence and apply them to the individual so that their practice serves them.” —Maty EzratyRead More The Future of Yoga: Where Maty Ezraty Thinks Yoga Needs to Go

Judith Hanson Lasater yoga teacher Iyengar

Leah Cullis performs Modified Side Plank, Bow Variation.

“In the next decade, yoga needs to find integrity. This means that yoga students must go deeper, not broader. Yoga has become a flippant experience done two times a week rather than a deep personal self-exploration. The dilution of yoga with perfect nonsense has to stop. Beer yoga, chocolate yoga, goat yoga, nude yoga. These are abominations and a testament to how little is known of yoga by teachers and how little is desired of yoga by students. The crux of the matter for the next decade is true teacher training—500 hours is simply not enough. When I asked my teacher, BKS Iyengar, what it would take to create a yoga teacher, he replied: ‘7 years of teacher training, 5 hours a day, 6 days a week.’ That, of course, did not include daily personal practice!! Yoga taught today seldom is. It is time to make yoga yoga again.” —Aadil PalkhivalaPractice with him in Yoga Journal’s Master Class program

“We are shaping the future of yoga right now—into a comprehensive and profound experience. Life in the 21st Century is fast-paced. Most people don’t have time for separate regimes for all of their different physical and spiritual needs (we don’t!), so we have woven them all into Forrest Yoga. We navigate students through the four parts of our being; Spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. We came together in a ‘synergistic collision’ of cosmic proportions, integrating our worlds of yoga, music, Ceremony, First Nations’ culture, philosophy, healing, and shamanism, and we are bringing these into the yoga room.The physical asana practice is a vital aspect of our healing and evolution. It is what brings most people to their first yoga class. However, yoga can offer much more than a delicious asana practice. Modern yoga needs the integration and knowledge from First Nations’ traditions and other spiritual insights, e.g., the arts and music. Our people are hungry for something that is real, raw, primal and authentic, and our yoga Ceremony is exactly that.” —Ana Forrest & Jose CalarcoSee also Gravity Surfing with Ana Forrest

Larissa Hall Carlson, yoga teacher and former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda

“It’s time. Our world is changing and the yoga community is starting to shift its attention. Threats of war, natural disasters, and extended political unrest have left communities struggling, families in fear, and individuals in a stressful state of high alert. The vast field of yoga is changing. For long-term yoga teachers and practitioners, sankalpa (intention; heart-felt desire) is naturally moving away from individually focused goals of self-discovery, mastering advanced poses, and transformational yogic pilgrimages, and turning toward community-oriented support.

The need is real and this new yogic movement is incredibly inspiring. Able, dedicated yogis are taking action: maintaining enough yoga practice for daily self-care, stress reduction, mental clarity, and overall health, then getting off the mat and serving society directly. It’s a shift from the precious practice of silently bowing and dedicating the fruits of yoga to someone at the end of class, to the pragmatic practice of actually doing something helpful for the community.” —Larissa Hall Carlson

Practice with her in Yoga Journal's Ayurveda 101 online course.

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