"Is yoga for you?
The answer will be realised in your blood,
rather than understood by your brain"
F. Yeats-Brown, 1937
My vision for Kahvah is to share my love of yoga, philosophy and self knowledge with others by offering classes, workshops, conversations and connections to all things yoga.
My yoga journey started in my teenage years almost two decades ago, when I was lucky enough to stumble into one of Leonard Prendergast's Iyengar yoga classes at the university I was studying at. I was immediately hooked and my weekly yoga classes became a non-negotiable and permanent fixture on my crazy busy calendar of life. I would trade in my high heels for thongs and pull on my most daggiest, comfortable clothes and just let go of all the stress and busyness and be myself. The more yoga I was doing, the more focused and calm I was with everything else in my life. On the flipside, the less yoga I did or if I missed my classes for weeks on end I would become cranky, irritable and unsettled with my sense of self. Little did I know then just how vital and central my yoga practice would become in the years ahead!
For me, yoga became a deeply private and inner journey, a secret meeting place between my body and my mind, beyond any external postures or fancy stretches (I have recently written about this in my article on yoga and flexibility in elephant journal). For the first 17 years of my practice I had no visual evidence of my yoga, it was just my own special little time with myself and I had no idea how I even looked in any of my postures - warrior, headstand, shoulderstand, savasana- but I most certainly knew how they felt. It was only really a couple of years ago that I took my first yoga 'selfies', and even then it was only initially for my teacher training application.
Even now as a yoga teacher I still truly believe that the best kind of yoga is the kind when no-one is looking!
For me, yoga became a deeply private and inner journey, a secret meeting place between my body and my mind, beyond any external postures or fancy stretches (I have recently written about this in my article on yoga and flexibility in elephant journal). For the first 17 years of my practice I had no visual evidence of my yoga, it was just my own special little time with myself and I had no idea how I even looked in any of my postures - warrior, headstand, shoulderstand, savasana- but I most certainly knew how they felt. It was only really a couple of years ago that I took my first yoga 'selfies', and even then it was only initially for my teacher training application.
Even now as a yoga teacher I still truly believe that the best kind of yoga is the kind when no-one is looking!
