IL CUORE Dello YOGA - " Part 1" -

Sono passati alcuni  giorni dall'ultimo mio post per preparare questo mio nuovo e  sono stati giorni grandiosi , il mio cuore si è riempito di gioia, gratitudine e grande commozione. Vorrei condividere con voi  la storia dello Yoga raccontata  dalla mia esperienza personale e  dal profondo del cuore di persone luminose  che hanno incrociato il mio cammino di vita ,  praticanti ed insegnanti di questa meravigliosa disciplina che abbraccia parte integrante la  loro vita , Yoga in ogni pensiero e movimento. 

Rosie Troveri

Ho scoperto lo Yoga nel 2011 in Italia , sono sempre stata attratta  dalla mia ricerca spirituale e lo Yoga è stato un richiamo  naturale, senza mai chiedermi quale fosse la vera definizione dello Yoga e del  perché, è fluito nel mio essere con naturalezza.  All'inizio ho fatto pratica da sola  seguendo alcuni video e leggendo libri ma non mi bastava  avevo bisogno di conoscere, imparare, condividere la disciplina con altre persone e quindi ho voluto mettermi all'opera per trovare un centro Yoga  che fosse semplice come me .  Mi ci è voluto solo un giorno ed ecco che l'universo me lo confeziona  come un dono ,   Amarna Blu Yoga Studio ,  quì ho incontrato insegnanti  che nomino fratelli e sorelle spirituali ,  che poi sono diventati amici inseparabili che porto sempre nel mio cuore anche se sono miglia e miglia di distanza da dove sono ora.  Mi hanno preparato ad accogliere il mio cambiamento,  avevo imparato ad avere disciplina nella mia vita e a prendermi cura del mio corpo , della mia mente e del mio spirito.  Yoga è unione. Nel 2014 riabbraccio il Sud Africa , la  prima cosa che ho fatto è stata andare alla ricerca di un nuovo centro Yoga come fosse Amarna Blu, un luogo dove sentirmi a casa. Ho provato alcuni studio  ma sentivo che mancava qualcosa , mancava di cuore, di anima.

Finalmente incontro un meraviglioso insegnante  in questo nuovo centro , il suo nome è Will Lindeque ,mi piaceva la sua  grazia, la sua  pazienza, il  suo dialogo che assisteva ogni mio movimento. Ma anche questo centro  era privo di anima , così dopo pochi giorni Will mi presenta   a Hot Dog Yoga Studio dove lui insegnava, qui  in Cape Town , ho  percepito subito una fortissima energia che mi avvolgeva, una sensazione di pace assoluta, sorrisi, armonia, qui mi sono detta " finalmente la mia seconda casa" ed è proprio così  vado a yoga almeno due volte al giorno da 15 mesi oramai. Yoga è il mio modo di essere. Mi appassiona ogni istante sempre più!  E in questo momento di transizione della mia vita , non lavorando, sto dando sfogo alla mia passione  , YOGA.

Qui seguo diversi stili di Yoga  ma quello che pratico maggiormente è vinyasa ,una pratica molto dinamica  di grande forza fisica e di costante profonda  respirazione passando da una posizione all'altra ininterrottamente , ogni posizione è mantenuta ferma da 5 a 10 respirazioni profonde, quindi immaginatevi la potenza che dona sia sul fisico, che sullo spirito , vietato pensare  c'è solo respiro e azione , qui la mente si fa una vacanza.  In Yoga ho scoperto quanto è importante il respiro, la base di tutto, è Vita. Yoga è una danza continua del mio essere . Il mio corpo è in forma e tutte le parti di esso  vengono messe all'opera dandone valore,  la mia mente è equilibrata e si trasforma in   pace e creatività.. Per poter avere benefici nello Yoga, come in tutte le pratiche bisogna avere disciplina nel conseguirlo. Yoga mi ha trasformata da bozzolo a farfalla, libera dentro e fuori  e sono in continua evoluzione.  Mi sto preparando  per poi conseguire la scuola   per insegnare la disciplina Yoga ai bambini . Starei qui a raccontarvi per ore ed ore ma voglio lasciare il posto a coloro che sono stati e tuttora sono  gli artefici del mio nuovo cambiamento.

HYLTON JAGGARD

HOT DOG YOGA STUDIO è il cuore dello Yoga, lo studio è  situato in Sea Point a Cape Town . E' stato fondato da Hylton Jaggard . Hylton  era un uomo stupendo, stravagante , Anima  sublime ,  nato con lo spirito Yogi . Ha vissuto in America ed  ha viaggiato nel mondo insegnando Yoga col cuore.
Ritorna a Johannesburg e più in là si   trasferisce a Cape Town in (SA) e nel 2012 apre lo studio Hot Dog Yoga dandone solide basi. Nel 2015 Hylton lascia la terra per ritornare là dove noi tutti apparteniamo, era molto giovane ma come ogni angelo lui aveva già concluso la sua missione qui. Era ed è tutt'ora amato da tutti. Io non l'ho conosciuto purtroppo, ma ho percepito sin dall'inizio la sua presenza nello studio e tutt'ora ci accompagna, non c'è un giorno che io non  manchi di ringraziarlo per farne parte , dedicando la mia pratica a lui. I miei Insegnanti sono una continua ispirazione donano sapienza , amore e anima costantemente.

 

 Aprite i cuori e cibatevi delle emozioni ed esperienze sia degli insegnanti che degli studenti che seguono Hot Dog Yoga Studio e come Yoga ha trasformato la loro vita ,  qui di seguito da me intervistati :

 Andi Berghouse e Laura Santoni sono le due stupende managers dello studio .Hanno preferito che io le descrivessi :  che dire

ANDI BERGHOUSE

LAURA SANTONI

semplicemente belle,  biglietto da visita  un sorriso ogni singolo minuto per te , piene di gioia, amore , anime radianti ecco ciò che sono. Hanno sempre praticato  Yoga e tutt'ora lo seguono ed è stupendo vederle in classe con noi.  Andi ha iniziato con l'apertura dello  studio ,  Laura invece è arriva qualche hanno fa ed oltre a prestare servizio allo studio è anche una terapeuta, facilitatore di  workshop e cantautrice.

 

MELANIE DE VILLIERS - Insegnante e Filosofa dello Yoga :
How did you discover Yoga and when you decided to share it by teaching the discipline?
I found Yoga in 1995 when during my psychology studies intuitively felt drawn to eastern philosophy as a complement to my western understanding of the human mind. My initial years of practice was an on-off love affair  between outer stimulus and inner peace as  my awareness increased a stronger fire

ignited inside me and more committed practise began to unfold. After years of travel and study I  finally surrendered to the calling in my heart to align every aspect of  my life with this higher truth awakening inside me. In 2009 I  complited my Yoga Alliance teacher training and immediately began to teach part time, yet more freedom felt to unravel from deep within me, so I quit my work in the photographic production industry and with a leap of faith I returned to India where I bumped into a friend whom offered me a fulltime Yoga teaching position at a retreat centre in Thailand and so my journey as a teacher began to flower.

MELANIE DE VILLIERS

How did you find Hot Dog Yoga Studio and what is your feeling to be part of it?
Upon my return from Thailand, a dear friend of Hylton, Ilana Fintz, introduced me to Hylton as a talented teacher whom could assist him at newly opened studio whenever needed. Hylton began to contact me regularly to cover his classes but often at last minute and threw me in the deep end, but I was so eager to teach that I dove fully into the challange and began my energy dance with Hot Dog Yoga Studio. It trasformed me as a human being, the space and especially its owner has taught me to be in the present moment and to embrace impermanence . I love this studio and the students so much.  Even after Hylton's passing I feel his energy of unconditional love and acceptance of life in its raw essence there. Hot Dog is more than  just a studio, it's a gathering of Souls, open to the ever expanding evolution of life.
Describe me Hylton Jaggard
Hylton was an evolved Yogi with a tortured soul. The dance of light and darkness in him streched Beyond the ends of life and Death. He had no fear and sometimes I thought he was immortal in the way that he lived so closely to the edge. Hylton was a Yoga rock star, a controversial teacher with a massive open heart and immense capacity for intimacy, He embraced individuality and inspired others to be themselves in their own authentic raw realness. His passing was a huge shock and awakened a profound spiritual transformation in many of this close friends. His playful smiling mischievous energy will forever be with us.
One pill of your wisdom to share it with the world
Be in the present allow it to be exactly the way it is . Accept yourself exactly the way you are and accept others exactly the way they are too. Don't let your fear stand in the way of your dreams. Trust, surrender and be LOVE.

"Melanie mi ha insegnata ad aprirmi alla trasformazione , è dolcezza pura".


ELAINE SEIDEL - Insegna  Vinyasa-Synergy-Forrest-Iyengar
What brought you to embrace Yoga?
In 1999 one morning I woke up and said to myself "oh I supposed to go to Yoga"it was like a memory. I didn't  know how it came into my head it was something I ever knew .In that time I was living in Tableview (Capetown,) its wasn't  a common place as it is now, but in some how
I managed that day to find the  studio and the teacher, The teacher asked  me if I did Yoga before as
for me was so familiar, I felt confident with it from the first time even though  I  never practised  others sports before .Yoga I  just loved it!!! I think that was  something that I have been doing for life times.

When have  you decided to become a Yoga teacher?





ELAINE SEIDEL

When I started Yoga I didn't even thing about teaching Yoga, I just loved practising Yoga in that moment I was painting in the Film Industry. I couldn't  even thing how could it be possible to teach Yoga and working in film as I didn't want to leave my job as I loved it. So I had my hobby which become my deep passion and my work which was also my pation.One day at work there where asking me" lets do a class together" , so  I started over lunch time to teach people. Then one day I sow an advert for a Yoga teacher training, I had a month time of freedom from my work, so I decided to follow it but not because I wanted to teach Yoga, I did it because I had time from my work and  I loved to  just spend a full month in Yoga , I couldn't even thing of anything  better than just doing Yoga every single day for 8 hours a day, and that was the programme. I was in heaven!  I remember a friend of mine gave me a great advise saying "you don't have to teach to doing teacher training you can just do it deep in your practise", and I thought it was brilliant and toke the pressure off , so at that point I was not thinking about teaching  I just did it and it was so much fun. Then I said to myself I am not ready to teach. Then I did another teacher training, then something else came out and I did another one and after my fourth training I started feeling confident go and teach. Then teaching of itself started teaching me how to teach.  It didn't come from  I must,  I just loved it  and the more you  do it  the more you love  it  and the  better you get it and  you want to share it for others to feel the same.
How did you find Hot Dog Yoga Studio?
I have been practising at the Hot Dog Center now and then when Hylton was around. As I wasn't living in Sea Point the studio wasn't convenient for me to get to. I wasn't really able to come often.
Then 2 years ago I had cancer and I had to leave my job, I started  going  to treatment and focusing on my health.  I did very concidered kind of yoga like Lyengar  slow classes teaching,  and than I started to come stronger and better and that time I started to have more classes and was able to come to Sea Point and  Hot Dog got hold of me as I wasn't doing anymore films and started to have more time available. So I got full time teaching on the August 2016. Now teaching is my only means of incomes, the cross over came . I love teaching  at  Hot Dog Yoga Studio , it's an affacinating journey for me  because I grew up in Sea Point , I didn't really  want  to  come over here often as I had lots of situations to work throught, my cancer journey and healing. One of my gratest healing aspect was returning to a place where it was part of my childhood and  Hot Dog now to  me has such a positive association  with Sea Point and with the comunity in this area, that I needed to have which is really healing for me.
Hylton Jaggard for you was ?
Hylton was an amazing sunbeem  , he made everybody feel wonderful, he was just  a kind , gentle and honest fun loving person. Everybody that crossed his path just loved him. He was just a Light Beem.
Wisdom for you is?
 Stay Humble and stay currious  so that you can observe things  with fresh eyes  instead of tempted eyes and see the beauty in the small thing that's  where you find yourself.

"Grazie ad Elaine ho compreso la potenza del respiro e di come usarlo nella mia pratica, Elaine mi dona passione nello Yoga è stupenda.


ROS LANGER- Insegna Ashtanga e Vinyasa.
How did you start your Yoga journey?


ROSALIND LANGER

I came to Yoga whe I saw the amazing shifts in a friend of mine who had begun practising. At the time I was living on a small island in the Caribbean, where there were no teachers, and so the exploration was mostly alone. I began to experience the benefits really quickly and from the very begginning I realised that this needed to become a daily practise. What become a dedicated practise slowly evolved into a devotional one. Yoga has shifted me in ways I never thought possible. It protects me.
What made you teach Yoga?
I was a high school teacher for 20 years, and so the teaching happaned quite naturally and intuitively. I wanted to share what I was experiencing with others.
What Hylton Jaggard brought you into your Yoga journey?
Hylton was so generous to me. When I first met him I was very "new" as a Yoga teacher. He gave me the most  amazing opportunity to grown and evolve not only as a teacher but as a human being. It was in this space Hot Dog Yoga Studio that my inner journey became deeper and through sharing this practise, I began to learn so much. Hot Dog gave me myteaching wings, and it will Always be my Yoga home and sanctuary. I have spent hours and hours teaching and practicing in this sacred space.
Hylton was so deeply human and yet seemed to have this ethereal and otherworld quality about him. This is what made him so unique.
One pill of wisdom to share it with the world
From the greatest teacher Sri K. Pattabi Jois :" Practice, practice and all is coming". He didn't say what "all" was . At first I was sure it meant that I would be able to do some incredible things with my body, but the more I came to the mat I realised that the  "All" to which he was referring was so much
deeper, so much more. The "ALL" is the opening of the  vast infinite space that exists within each and  evey one of us !!!

"Ros mi ha portata a mantenere salda la mia intenzione nella pratica e nella vita, è estremamente grandiosa".


FRANCESCA BIANCOLI - allieva Yoga (musicista, artista, songwriter)
Yoga per te è ?
Sono sempre stata attratta sin da piccola dallo spirituale nell'arte e con lo Yoga ho scoperto lo studio di sé utilizzando gli asana, la meditazione ed i mantra. Questo percorso è iniziato nel 2014 quando mi sono trasferita in Sud Africa. Lo Yoga mi permette di sperimentare  e di mettere in pratica il sentimento di essere tutti parte del tutto, di dare valore a ciò che ci divide.
Come sei arrivata a Hot Dog Yoga Studio?
Lo studio è in una posizione a me favorevole in quanto si trova  vicino la mia casetta in Sea Point. Grazie al mio ragazzo ricevetti per il mio compleanno un pacchetto di 10 classi e da lì è incominciato tutto.


LISA COHEN - allieva  Yoga (medico ufficiale Croce  Rossa Ospedale per bambini)
When have you realised to follow the Yoga discipline and what change has brought you into your life ?
My Yoga practise started out as "exercise and stretching" and then as my practice progressed so too do my attitude and appreciation for the art of Yoga . So I think in the 3 years I realised my love for
Yoga. It's my moving meditation, my  time to just BE. Yoga inspires disovering and growth-physical and emotional. The biggest gift Yoga has given me is Breath. Reminding me that Breath is Life and when are struggling to just bring it back to the breath. I try instill what I learn on the mat in my everyday life, that is to try and be grounded within, non attached.
How did you discover Hot Dog Yoga Studio and what is your feeling about it?
Hot Dog Studio was the closest studio to my house as I became a regular
Give me a pill of wisdom to share it with the world
Have Gratitude and share your Light and Love .

"Lisa e Francesca sono compagne di" Unione" nonché care amiche."Per Francesca ho questo aggettivo VERACISSIMA da buona Italiana !


Concludo seduta in "LOTUS Position"  chiaramente Yoga in ogni momento.

So much LOVE !

 TO BE CONTINUED .... "PART 2" -  very soon !!!


"Qui ringrazio umilmente col cuore  le mie insegnanti  , compagne di Yoga , sorelle spirituali per aver partecipato ad aprire i lori cuori al mondo: Will Lindeque, Andi Berghouse, Laura Santoni, Melanie De Villiers, Elaine Seidel, Ros Langer, Francesca Biancoli, Lisa Cohen , Hot Dog Yoga Studio ."