Posted by Catarina on May 15, 2013 in Yoga and Healing
. Kathryn Budig, yoga lover, yoga teacher and writer is our guest writer this week with an amazing transformational yoga story brought to her by one of her students. I love stories about how yoga changes your life. Because it does! Enjoy this lovely story! Catarina Lacayo Director It´s Yoga Nica I have the best job in the world I’ve been blessed with traveling the world in order to teach people yoga. I realize yoga still carries stereotypes such as granola-loving,...
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Posted by Catarina on May 14, 2013 in Yoga and Food
Traditional diets consist mainly of raw plant based foods and weeds. A healthy diet is a diet with organic whole food like vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains and berries. How much of the food you should cook depends on your body and the season. The raw food movement these days is huge and there are many conflicting facts about living only on raw plant based foods. If you are on a spiritual path you would want to eat more of the raw plant based foods. You would want to...
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Posted by Catarina on May 10, 2013 in Yoga Philosophy
Danielle Prohom Olson is a yoga instructor/filmaker and blogger. She has studied the “new sutras” and she gives us some observations on the book, Threads Of Yoga, by Mattew Remski, along with an interview with the author. The Yoga Sutras was written several thousands of years ago. I think it is mind blowing how much of the content that still applies today – but we need to revive and develop some ideas for us to make sense today. But a new sutras? I am...
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Posted by Catarina on May 10, 2013 in Yoga Teacher Training
Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training (via http://theyogateachertraining.com) Defnition of ashtanga The Sanskrit term Ashtanga translates as “eight limbs” and traditionally refers to the eight limbs of Raja Yoga. Raja yoga, also known as Royal Yoga was first defined by Pantanjali in his famous work The Yoga Sutras written most probably around the 2nd century CE...
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Posted by Catarina on May 3, 2013 in Yoga in Nicaragua
Yoga produces creativity I am a creator. When the creation is manifested and established my mind starts to come up with new ideas. Most of the time I can not keep up the pace but now and again something important rises (might turn in to an obsession) that slows me down. Like the idea I had to move to Nicaragua and provide the “yoga starving” Nicaraguans with some real Yoga. This creator mood has been” me” since I was a child, and it is bigger than...
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