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It seems like I sort of stumbled into yoga after a long search, having passed through a variety of physical practices, mostly based on martial arts, eastern movement principles and dance improvisation. I have worked for some years now as a performance artist and choreographer, always trying to link my interest in philosophy with physical activities. As I encountered yoga, I suddenly realized that my wish to combine those two has been an ancient tradition in yoga. I am entirely fascinated by the complexity of all aspects from asana to pranayama, meditation, philosophy, music, chanting and karma yoga. I experience life as a very complexly interrelated beautifully chaotic order, and yoga precisely seems to meet the continuous change in living. What I have mostly taken with me from art practice is the desire to create communities and collective bodies, to share knowledge and allow for openness and diversity. Even though I consider myself an absolute yoga beginner (and hope it will always stay this way!), teaching is essentially sharing, and yoga seems to ask for that. I love to pass on whatever has been made available to me, but I do not consider myself any other than the student who always learns and always teaches at the same time. As for the physical aspect of asana, I deeply respect yoga for its recycling quality and simplicity. Yoga is a green practice and life style which does not require anything but a body to engage with the world and an open experimental mind. There is so much space for play and research, and there is a lot of valuable wisdom in the poses, such as spirals, twists and inversions, breath integration and energetic flow. I am in love with spirals and helixes of all kinds, spiraling bones, spines, thoughts, plants, growth patterns… I hope to grow old with yoga, become a gardener yogi, music yogi, mat yogi, action yogi, thinking yogi, playing yogi, loving yogi, turbulently disorienting myself in those practices, spreading warmth and care amongst people through teaching it all, and finding silence and stillness in the midst of all motion. Yoga cannot ever be a product, it’s always a process, maybe simply one of letting go and arriving here and now, without worries and fears. So, let’s dare to investigate deeply, not only for ourselves, but together.
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Nora