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Struggling after 1-month of the practice of hatha yoga

Turning to the higher power always leads you somewhere. And there everything is hard but beautiful, and you think you are all connected and grounded and etcetera.

After I arrived I had only 3 weeks until my wedding ceremony with Haki. We had been through a very tuff year and then organizing a wedding between two citizenships is everything but not easy. So after my arrival and first biological shock – time zone, gut health problems – I tried to wake up early and practice but I really missed my dog Mandarin and Haki as well, so I started to practice daytimes before lunch.

In that case, we could enjoy the morning routine together, eat breakfast and go for a walk or coffee. And I started my work usually around 9 between 10 am.

Everything was fine until work hit in the middle of October. How can I struggle then? I had a routine, and I know what is good for me, but people like laziness, and being lazy in that sense doesn’t mean okay I don’t do my work and yoga. I do but the effort which I put into my practice is not even 70%. And I know myself, I know what is good for me, but.

And there is a but, but it’s very hard to choose that. And why? Why do we like suffering and choosing to read the news instead of sitting 5 minutes and practicing pranayama or whatever?

Adjustment and alignment class in Nepal, Pokhara

So then how I ended up with that pic in that blog post? Actually, all we need is adjustment and alignment in our life. Nothing more, than aligning and adjusting for everything and working on ourselves, each day will be difficult but at the end of the day worth it.

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NEPAL – COURSE 300H TCC PART 2.

About teacher training always I got questions: is it worth it?

My answer is of course. Stick to the practice and away from everything, focusing only one thing ON YOURSELF to help you to get through on a rough path.

When I arrived in Nepal I was filled with my everything. COVID hit my job a bit, and for a while, I have not been doing anything so deep lately. I wanted to have something different, and extra. Many times I think about my supersensitivity (after I realized that supersensitivity is exist). I tried so hard to balance my relationship, yoga, gym, girlfriend, supporter and friend, and child roles. It’s impossible to be ok and 100% everywhere.

teaching the Dharma by the middle

Buddha

So for me, the middle path is the hardest. I do something hard, or I don’t. I never try, I do. If you know me you also know I’m kinda maximalist, but also I have a compulsion for conformity.

If we think about humanity: people like what is easy and comfortable. And what do you think, what can help you to move out of your comfort zone? If you go somewhere and do something for yourself, that you have never done in your life. Nepal was out of my comfort zone.

Waking up early, practicing, eating and practicing again, sleeping early, and waking up again. It’s not the middle path of course. But it’s learning, and for learning, you have to be intensive. If you start practicing yoga, you can’t just practice once per week. Because it’s not just an exercise. It was not comfortable, and it was not easy. It was hard, tough, and painful as well. But totally deserves.

But if you start to practice, you gonna feel, you would like to practice more and more. When somebody goes somewhere to have a Yoga retreat in a 5 stars hotel, that person won’t get what she/he wanted.

Bhagavad Gita

BG 2.70: Just as the ocean remains undisturbed by the incessant flow of waters from rivers merging into it, likewise the sage who is unmoved despite the flow of desirable objects all around him attains peace, and not the person who strives to satisfy desires.

NEPAL – Flight and 300H TTC course info PART 1.

Budapest to Dubai, UAE (Wizz Air)

Dubai to Kathmandu, Nepal (Fly Dubai)

From Kathmandu to Pokhara (Buddha Air) was the best option because of our timeline. We had to arrive in Pohara 4th of September. Actually, we started our journey on the 2nd of Sept, but with these flight changes, we had a huge transfer time gap in Dubai. We just arrived in Nepal 3rd of Sept and both flights took around 10 hours for us, but the whole travel around 24 hours in the end.

Wizzair costs around 250 USD going and coming for me, FlyDubai around 500 USD, and Buddha Air 160 USD. So the travel total is around 1000 USD.

The USD was around 400 HUF when we left the country, but when we arrived 440 HUF. So our money day by day also in Nepali rupees worth less by the time.

Insurance:

I wanted normal-priced and valued insurance, however, Nepal is not the best place to have any kind of problem. But I did not overreact, because I had experienced my mom being an insurance specialist so we made a middle valued and middle-priced traveling insurance for 1 month.

It costs 150 USD.

Extra 120 USD – TIFUS and HEPA A vaccination.

TTC:

Our TTC was with accommodation, we stayed in a Hotel Tulsi (Pokhara) TTC started with a fire ceremony (Puja for purification, and healing) 4th of September and we finished 28th in the morning with our final closing ceremony.

Fire ceremony purifies emotions, burns up unresolved conflict and worries, and leaves us feeling lighter, free, and more open inside. As we focus on letting go, the fire dissolves our tensions leaving only Vibhuti, or Sacred Ash, behind.

Vedic Fire Ceremony

So about TTC, 250 USD was the deposit. and then we paid there 1350 USD. So a total of 1600 USD with accommodation and 2 times food (breakfast and lunch) for 28 nights.

TTC daily schedule – Monday to Saturday.

Wake up: 5:30-6:00

Morning tea

6:30-8:00 Hatha Yoga

8:15-9:00 Pranayama

Breakfast

10:30-11:30 Philosophy

12:00-13:00 Alignment, Adjustment course

Lunch

15:30 – 16:30 Teaching Methodology/Mantra chanting

16:45- 18:00 Ashtanga practice/Mysore

18:00-19:00 Meditation/Singing Bowl

Dinner

Sundays were officially our rest days, which we really needed after all long long days.

Next time I will write about packing, which I failed a bit, and also about food, classes, and Nepal too.

Beautiful view from our hotel to Phewa lake.

NEPAL 2022 SEPT

Slowly, slowly I’m planning to organize my thoughts about my Nepali journey. But in nutshell, and only for 5 mins read. At beginning of 2022, I was very overwhelmed and tired of everything and everyone. Of course myself as well. I had been thinking to do something and travel somewhere. I checked Bali, and Thailand too.

But then nothing happened. COVID hit usual, and my recovery was not hard, but slow. I trained a lot, but then I realized should stick to practice more than having a gym with LeanwithLilly. I love both, I don’t want to lie.

In springtime the weather was amazing and I had a chance to visit my friends in the UK, and I also visited my younger sister in Belgium. I charged, or just I thought it. But again everything was the same as before.

Practice and tiredness.

I attended one workshop with Eszter Balogh – aka yogawitheszter, and I realized that spice and learning inspire me so much, during the 3 days workshop (which was alignment and adjustment) I met Virág Váczi . And we started to talk about going to India for a course. I really didn’t believe it. Just it was chit-chat. We were troubled to find a teacher, and a place as well. Then we changed the plan a bit and flight to Nepal.

So then about the course:

It was in Nepal, Pokhara. 300 hours YTT – it is called master teacher training, or advanced training whom are already teachers.

We spent 1 month in that beautiful place.

Lots of everything, emotions, study, and yoga.

2022. NEPAL

Does our brain control everything?

If you’re talking to someone about your soul, where do you imagine the place of your soul? Near to your heart? Like an”organ of” your chest? I personally see it in my chest somewhere in the middle. If we also feel our soul, why do we think our brain can control just everything?

When we talk about how heavy we are, how our soul is heavy, is it the result of our thoughts that physically show a particular difficulty in physical symptoms?

I’ve been tough days for a while. I’m the upset one cause of Covid’s 3rd wave, and I don’t even like to multiply the words. All psychological and other social research says this is a very interesting and hard period. First, because an unknown thing is our enemy since 2019, it is what lives with us and day by day there is only just a struggle between him and us. On the other hand, that change that pandemic caused not only brings despair but only a sense of insecurity over us, as we “don’t know anything for sure”.

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Nāḍī-śodhana-prāṇāyāma

The Nadi Shodhana breathing practice alternating nostril breathing aligns our two sides.
It seeks to create a complete balance of energies on both sides.

There are a lot of nadi in our body, these are also used in oriental medicine and ayurveda.

There are 72,000 in the notes, but I’ve come across information where 320,000 Nadi, or energy trajectories, weave through our entire bodies.

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IF & AYURVEDA

A jóga szerint a táplálkozásban van:

  • Testi szint
  • Lelki szint
  • Mentális szint

A testi szintről írok most:

Amikor @dorcaborca tavaly nyáron, azaz júliusban említette nekem az időszakos böjtöt kicsit elképedve és hitetlenkedve álltam előtte. De a következő héten belevágtam. Az első 2-3 hét borzalmasan telt, csináltam én már minden diétát, nagyon sokat foglalkoztam már az egészséges táplálkozással. 

Volt, hogy leböjtöltem a Neera-val, emlékszel Judit? Csináltam víznapokat, 90 napos diétát, viszont sosem értem el a célom és általában sanyargatás volt a vége.

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PAIN AND LET IT GO

As the yoga instructor training started in November, I was thinking about how I do this, that I would do this.

Will I have enough time for everything that I want?

In 2020 I switched from 3 workouts per week to 6 workouts per week. Sometimes to 7, without a rest day. I was very overwhelmed cause of the pandemic. I’m a person who has two boundaries, I do something or not. 50-50%. Yes or no. Black and white. Or it’s just learned behavior.

So my biggest fear was how yoga would fit into this, especially with daily practice.

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Yoga starter kit

That’s my yoga starter kit, I have been practicing yoga for a while, exactly since 2017. 

Yoga blocks – these are not the best. Unfortunately, I didn’t know at that time what is the difference between plastic or wood blocks, these are a bit sponge for use.

Yoga bands – this could be very helpful if you are not able to reach your feet in some asanas. And also good friends, if you want to keep your arms together in inverted asanas.

Mattress – My first step was to buy a good mattress, so I use that Manduka. The color is brick red color and this good for root chakra.

Meditation pillow – That’s not a must’ve in one starter kit. But it helps if you want to sit, while you meditate for more than one minute in the cross-legged sitting position. 🙂

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