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Integrating your course learnings into your way of life.

By Charlotta Martinus

Making yoga a part

of your life

I

f your yoga is supporting your growth

as a person, making you more content

and more tolerant of others, creating

unity and cohesion, then it is working.

If this is not the case, then take a look

at how much and what you are applying to

your life.

Some people like to focus on a Yama or a

Niyama per week. You might like to:

n Pop a sticky note on the fridge with a

word on it

n Reflect on the word during your practice

and during your day

n Notice how you could apply the word

more during your day

n Write down as many associated words

as you can think of (translations are often

approximations and tied to a time and a

particular perspective)

You might like to write a spiritual diary every

day noticing your reactions to those around

you. If you are irritable, inflexible, or angry

you might like to adjust your practice. Notice

which activities, people, foods or events

impact your equilibrium - it might be time

to make some tough choices about them,

choosing that which keeps you in sattwa.

(balance, harmony, insight).

The hardest aspect of taking a teacher

training course is that those around you have

not. I remember trying to meditate when I came

back from my course, I ended up having to get

up before everyone else at 5am, which meant

I had to go to bed before everyone else. Even

then, my two-year-old would clamber up into

my lap mid-way! Many people feel the need

to up sticks and change their life completely,

leaving partner and family behind. This is

not the purpose of yoga. Yoga is meant to

unite, make you more tolerant, understanding

and flexible in the face of others and their

foibles. Don’t be mistaken in thinking you have

somehow become a perfected being. You are

embracing a higher awareness and curious on

how to become a better, more complete and

whole person – but that doesn’t mean you

are perfect!

Many of the texts and suggestions of

Raja Yoga, for example in Patanjali’s Sutras

and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, are directed

towards renunciates. Most of us lead lives of

householders, where we need to earn money

in order to take care of our family. It is tricky

for us to lead a life that is directed towards

Samadhi. We need to be realistic and maybe

use the Bhagavad Gita as our practical guide

to our dharma, rather than the other texts,

that are more esoteric and stoic in their

outlook. I have often found Arjuna’s battle

to be a helpful analogy to my own struggles

and those of my teacher training students.

I watch our new yogis mid-way through our

course make brave and difficult decisions,

moving themselves and their families

towards brighter and more sustainable

futures, helped by the practical and majestic

aspects of yoga, such as the philosophy,

meditation and pranayama.

So, breathe, take the yoga off the mat,

but don’t expect everyone around you to

change. Your outlook will change, you will

become softer, more tender, more peaceful,

which in turn will turn this planet of ours into

a more peaceful place.

Charlotta Martinus. Director - Universal

yoga teacher training starting jan 2019

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Photographer Katia Taylor