我的印度學習筆記Reflection on Yoga這Facebook 專頁不覺有十年歷史了，投入和認真寫文的時間是更久前的事，回頭看，那時能如此純粹只沉醉於研究筆記，練習體驗和分享的日子，是如此之珍貴難得。
如今你我的生活和人生，能如往昔那般全是小而確切的幸福感嗎？難說。在不安動盪之中，不要忘記保持能夠穩住自己身體、心理和精神健康的力量，選能夠讓自己感覺熟悉連結能心領神會的一項，因為那會如暗中的亮光、茫無頭緒時的指路明燈般起著定錨作用。
我呢~還好練習和研習功課不算懶散，要說為教課要準備也不為過，心情超好得意時、迷茫無力感佔主導時，踏上瑜伽墊子老老實實地練習，完成攤屍式後，有感一切都給中和了的安心而圓滿感，平靜祥和狀況雖是短暫卻真實可感，生活仍有順逆起落，心情好的壞的，是生命的具體內容乎？都一一體驗了，質感層次又豐富了點，令人回味的美食不也是因為有點什麼而難忘麼~
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| 15May2014 Lonavala, India |
22/12/2022 Thursday
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24/9/2022 Saturday
（生於亞熱帶+早年完成高溫瑜伽teacher training course 嘅長時間訓練
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昨日頭痛了半天，決定早一點「休市」，省略晚上慣常坐在電腦前寫寫看看這環節，直接休息上床睡覺。
以睡眠驅散不適，對我來說一直是有效方法。
今早出門時想，也許昨日整天沒踏出家門呼吸街外空氣(和去喝咖啡;P)是頭痛原因！？
走很多路，是這兩年來慢慢培養出來的新習慣，說是因疫情而來也無不可，保持社交距離，自然也包括減少有機會人多擠迫的坐交通工具(事實上地鐵或巴士上人數也不是很多) ，如果能走路可達的地方就不乘車，而且路上人和車大幅減少(走在路上也見證著城市逐漸復甦)，空氣清新很多，習慣很早出門也為避免太熱，但很多時回家路上仍難免汗流浹背。
以往寫過關於走路的文章 (走出光明前路 27July19@Hong Kong Economic Times)，談了很多偉人作家大師之於走路的種種，例如讓靈感自然流通、為信念結集群體堅定不移的行動能量等等。
而我，不怎麼宏大有理想，出門就是走路是去吃早餐，大約十五分鐘步程，進食後走的路線比較迀迴時間隨心情而定，並因應當天稍後的日程增減，吃飽後總得散步幫助消化。
如像小時候寫日記純敍事式：六時半起床，天晴，梳洗戴上口罩出門是七時十五分，如常捨電梯而走樓梯七層下樓，選擇沿公園外圍前往吃早餐的地方，是繞了較遠路，但享受走在花草樹木旁，聽各種鳥兒唱歌和覓食。(September 2021)
My view on teaching yoga as a career.
In general, I can imagine somehow it is still the case of what brings most people to yoga teacher training: dedication to practice and mastered certain difficult/fancy/invered postures, encouraged by teachers in class to join teacher training ".
I am not writing to encourage or discourage you if you are serious about teaching hatha yoga(refering to all schools, brand of yoga as long as practicing physically with our body is involved) to earn a living or as a career. Simply put, this is a decision you are the one to make, not others, and not even the teacher who coach you during the yoga teacher training courses.
Here I can only share with what I came across ever since I step on the yoga mat as a participant of a hatha yoga class, then the teacher's mat.
It only referring to what I've experienced, observed so far, so bear in mind that I have no intention to generalize these view points to the modern yoga scene as a whole.
Over a decade ago, in my first yoga teacher training, there're classmates who are so eager to become a yoga teacher because they wants to shift from the job that stressed them out to what they are passionate to do, i.e. yoga. There're classmates who simply enjoy learning, first and foremost, not necessarily becoming a teacher.
Back then, signing up for a teacher training program, whether it's in your hometown or abroad to follow famous teachers or school of yoga, was(or maybe still is to some extend) something demanding because not only you have to pay quite an amount but also you have to schedule whole month's time just for the training, 6 days each week, from 7am-6pm. That's why the yoga teacher trainees were either taking a month's no-pay-leave, or no need to work so can enjoy trying out new things, or freelancer who can regulate their own working schedule.
Quite a bit of commitment in terms of time and money, so expecting much in return is natural. Especially when training is completed, the urge to teach and to share what we've just newly learned is huge.
Flashback to my first yoga trip in India of 30+days boarding school style study. Before flying back home, I went to say goodbye to Swamiji with some classmates, as we used to attend the daily fire ceremony in the evening(the sacred ritual is called homa), so we went earlier afternoon to the cottage where Swamiji reside (called Swamiji kuti) . I still remembered Swamiji reminder to us about spreading the traditional wisdom of yoga, "go slow when in teaching, it takes time to fully digest what you've learned, then you will teach from your true experience."
To me, teach what I practice helps reserve energy, and it's tapping into my direct experience. It fits well with my belief to sharing what I love, passionate and enjoy doing.
Teaching is never a force-fed process. Indigestion only brings constipation. Observing how well the participants received, fine-tuning the deliverability of teaching when needed.
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好久沒去泳池游水，可能有三、四年了吧！
等到近日天氣夠熱，泳池水不會冷得我一躍而下就要不停游來游去保持體溫，以免嘴唇指甲都變紫色。
上周末早上去泳池「慢游」五個塘warm up，檢視一下生疏好久的泳術和水中換氣的能耐，也在這鄰近維多利亞港旁邊的露天游泳池感受夏天真正來了。
當然這是不同於2019年和之前的夏天了，艷陽與維港美景固然未變，但泳池已不能再容納full capacity，入場人數限額減到三分一，以保持社交距離也。人少了暢泳更是自在，這點我OK。
過去近兩年春去秋來，從一身厚褸到單薄夏裳，口罩始終是everybody's must have item，與手提電話銀包鎖匙一樣出門不能少。疫情下的不明朗，讓人驚怕擔心，不過身為人類就是要從經歷變化裡學到求生之道，測試我們的適應調整能力。回頭來談談游泳，在水裡何時呼何時吸絕不能搞錯，不然就遇溺。但回到陸上，大多數時候呼吸自主運作，有需要時我們也可取回主導權去變更呼吸的細節，安靜地坐著或從事各項運動時，改變呼吸深度長短，用於專注靜心或使用肌力的「燃料」。
練習瑜伽教導我注意協調呼吸節奏，留意肢體動靜時候身心的感受，如伸展感覺開放寬廣、用力收緊予人潛能盡展全面掌控的愉快感，且這不止於肉身層面的鍛練，更磨鍊心智清晰度和覺知力，在困難時保持冷靜沉著，也注意到分心和乏力之時，不要死撐用蠻力，調順呼吸更重要，心不慌亂，重回平和狀況，以決定進退。
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