Saturday, December 03, 2005
chOcOlate & mint
bronze & celadon
wood & leaf
sand & sea
earth & sprout
copper & jade
canyon & river
shit & mould
Life isn't always peaches and cream, nor chocolate and mint for that matter. That's what I learnt after a month in India and Nepal. Shit happens. . . a lot. You got to drive your trusty TATA car around giant piles of it on the highway, avoid stepping on it when trekking up the Himalayas (how do the cows get up there?!). It's just a packaged deal: you take the magnificent mountains, you gotta take the shit too. So something softened inside me, and then sitting in a meditation room in Lumbini, I shifted mentally into another space -- finding a place for shit and mould AND chocolate and mint. In essence, there really isn't much difference between them. Food becomes waste, desire becomes decay. Everything changes -- all the time -- and that's OK. I let go of some kind of clinging and felt a wave of freedom wash over me. . . like a deep, deep sigh of relief. Then it just became more steady, comfy and happy.
It is hard to sum up what all that amounts to. Like all experiences in yoga practice, it's very personal and can only be fully appreciated through direct experience. All I know is that I'm returning to my yoga practice with a greater sense of purpose and clarity:
We need to help each other find awareness and tranquillity in the present moment. This is the key to real happiness in our lives.
And hence the name, mOmentOm yOga. . . What's the difference between mOmentOm yOga and Om Improvement? We will continue to share a steady, comfy, happy, yoga. We will continue to be the cosy place where you practice yoga together with friends. We will continue to have only small intimate classes where the practice can be tailored to individuals' needs. We will continue to have fun as we stumble our way to enlightenment together. Only now, we focus very closely on developing moment-to-moment awareness and tranquillity in our practice, we also need to focus on keeping up the practice, creating a momemtum for real change. This is because we are not in the business of "teaching yoga poses", rather we are interested in helping you deal with the real challenges of life in the immediate, medium and long term.
So here we are back in Singapore again and a brand new yoga studio space is being prepared for all our yogis right now. We received the keys on 1st December and renovations will start in the next 2 weeks so we'll have classes soon. Look out for our announcement on the commencement of yoga classes on this site and in your emails. We will also provide the details of our new yoga programme soon.
Our Official Opening will be on 2 January 2006 which is a public holiday so mark your diaries!
See you in class again soon.
Namaste
Sau Fen
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wood & leaf
sand & sea
earth & sprout
copper & jade
canyon & river
shit & mould
Life isn't always peaches and cream, nor chocolate and mint for that matter. That's what I learnt after a month in India and Nepal. Shit happens. . . a lot. You got to drive your trusty TATA car around giant piles of it on the highway, avoid stepping on it when trekking up the Himalayas (how do the cows get up there?!). It's just a packaged deal: you take the magnificent mountains, you gotta take the shit too. So something softened inside me, and then sitting in a meditation room in Lumbini, I shifted mentally into another space -- finding a place for shit and mould AND chocolate and mint. In essence, there really isn't much difference between them. Food becomes waste, desire becomes decay. Everything changes -- all the time -- and that's OK. I let go of some kind of clinging and felt a wave of freedom wash over me. . . like a deep, deep sigh of relief. Then it just became more steady, comfy and happy.
It is hard to sum up what all that amounts to. Like all experiences in yoga practice, it's very personal and can only be fully appreciated through direct experience. All I know is that I'm returning to my yoga practice with a greater sense of purpose and clarity:
We need to help each other find awareness and tranquillity in the present moment. This is the key to real happiness in our lives.
And hence the name, mOmentOm yOga. . . What's the difference between mOmentOm yOga and Om Improvement? We will continue to share a steady, comfy, happy, yoga. We will continue to be the cosy place where you practice yoga together with friends. We will continue to have only small intimate classes where the practice can be tailored to individuals' needs. We will continue to have fun as we stumble our way to enlightenment together. Only now, we focus very closely on developing moment-to-moment awareness and tranquillity in our practice, we also need to focus on keeping up the practice, creating a momemtum for real change. This is because we are not in the business of "teaching yoga poses", rather we are interested in helping you deal with the real challenges of life in the immediate, medium and long term.
So here we are back in Singapore again and a brand new yoga studio space is being prepared for all our yogis right now. We received the keys on 1st December and renovations will start in the next 2 weeks so we'll have classes soon. Look out for our announcement on the commencement of yoga classes on this site and in your emails. We will also provide the details of our new yoga programme soon.
Our Official Opening will be on 2 January 2006 which is a public holiday so mark your diaries!
See you in class again soon.
Namaste
Sau Fen