Comments on: MANTRA http://barefootandupsidedown.com/2009/10/mantra/ Yoga as coming home to the Self. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:10:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: The Laughing Yogini http://barefootandupsidedown.com/2009/10/mantra/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 The Laughing Yogini Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:30:36 +0000 http://laughingyogini.com/?p=2370#comment-1148 JAY - Funny, small world, eh....or karma....I did my first teacher training in 2003 in Rochester! I LOVE his sense of humor and try to reproduce it in my own teaching, but find it nearly impossible to pull off. <strong>But</strong> I learned the importance of opening to laughter (<em>hence the name, LY</em> :-) ) especially when we are challenging ourselves or when experiencing mental/physical pain. I have some online articles by him in the reference section of LY and you may want to see these two, if you haven't already. The first post is another Westfield workshop with F. and the second includes a poem I wrote as a gift from our class. PS I take no credit for the -probably butchered - brilliant thoughts expressed by F. at the workshop. <a href="http://laughingyogini.com/2008/10/ringing-chanting-om/" rel="nofollow">http://laughingyogini.com/2008/10/ringing-chanting-om/</a> <a href="http://laughingyogini.com/2008/08/opensky-yoga-teacher-training/" rel="nofollow">http://laughingyogini.com/2008/08/opensky-yoga-teacher-training/</a> JAY – Funny, small world, eh….or karma….I did my first teacher training in 2003 in Rochester! I LOVE his sense of humor and try to reproduce it in my own teaching, but find it nearly impossible to pull off. But I learned the importance of opening to laughter (hence the name, LY :-) ) especially when we are challenging ourselves or when experiencing mental/physical pain.

I have some online articles by him in the reference section of LY and you may want to see these two, if you haven’t already. The first post is another Westfield workshop with F. and the second includes a poem I wrote as a gift from our class.

PS I take no credit for the -probably butchered – brilliant thoughts expressed by F. at the workshop.

http://laughingyogini.com/2008/10/ringing-chanting-om/

http://laughingyogini.com/2008/08/opensky-yoga-teacher-training/

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]]> By: YogaforCynics http://barefootandupsidedown.com/2009/10/mantra/comment-page-1/#comment-1142 YogaforCynics Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:21:15 +0000 http://laughingyogini.com/?p=2370#comment-1142 Francois Raoult !!!!! He was my yoga teacher up in Rochester when I first got into yoga seven years ago, and what a great teacher he is (as long as you appreciate his sense of humor, which I did)! And I love this: "Every sound is a mantra, even the rain." .-= YogaforCynics´s last blog ..<a href="http://yogaforcynics.blogspot.com/2009/09/thoughts-swimmin-by-like-dolphins.html" rel="nofollow">Thoughts Swimmin' By Like Dolphins</a> =-. Francois Raoult !!!!! He was my yoga teacher up in Rochester when I first got into yoga seven years ago, and what a great teacher he is (as long as you appreciate his sense of humor, which I did)!

And I love this: “Every sound is a mantra, even the rain.”
.-= YogaforCynics´s last blog ..Thoughts Swimmin’ By Like Dolphins =-.

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