Tine

Knock-knock!! Who's there...?! I'm back - in the #real world. Where there are lots of cars and assignments and noices and #responsibilities towards others and grown up things and bills to pay and #technical matters to work out. In the real world I also see a lot of #love and #acknowledgement and #respect and #hopes for the now and for the future. How do you perserve #utopia in all of this?  It is like the question: Do you meditate to find peace or do you find peace to meditate? It is a balance between what I can create right now. A #creation that must have in it as much of utopia as possible.  So I try to plan classes with as much space and acknowledgement for the individual as possible. With love and tapas/discipline. With #purity and intentions. Already, it has become a new #door in my work. When I open this door, I wish for utopia to meet up with the real world - if only for a second or two.  Knock-knock - who's there...?

It is over, and yet it has just #begun. I am now a certified #yoga #teacher. I am proud. I am happy. And I am headed #home - in more sence than one.  This #yttc has truely been an #adventure. I have learned so much, and not just about yoga. I have laughed and cried. I have stretched, contracted and flexed my #body - and my #mind. My #soul has been touched by #beautiful, #insightful people. I will never forget them. Some have placed #golden #footprints in my heart. I am truely blessed to have had these women around me. Now, I #travel #home. This, too, is an adventure. Because it all starts now. My #life with yoga, my life with new #ideas and #hopes. My life with my wonderful hubbie and boys, whom I have #missed terribly.  I #wish for golden paths for all my fellow #yoginis - #love you all!! Never have so many #strangers supported each other in such a beautiful way. Namaste!

My body and my mind are learning to speak yoga. This week in yoga #ttc has been about #ashtanga yoga and yoga #philosophy. Two #hardcore disciplines demanding my full #attention and #presence. I have been #worked out. I have broken #sweat in pools on my #mat, and my #mind has bend and stretched around the conception of #karma, #chakras and so much more. It is an entirely new language. I’m learning to speak yoga.  My body and mind was #drained from #energy the first couple of days practicing ashtanga. I just didn't get it and I felt that I couldn't do it. It was a #drill; counting and doing the exact same #asanas in the exact same order...  But then -  suddenly -  my body understood something. I felt #strong and I #accepted that I haven't nailed the #chaturanga - yet! It has to do with a balance between different forces. Willpower, faith in my body and acceptance of the present state. Easy said, right...? I am so busy looking ahead, planning, managin...

I am in Bali, #studying. Yoga #teacher training. It has been a long journey, and in a way it has only just begun. Many preparations, many hopes and fears, much talking, any thoughts and many, many words. From today onwards we are to be quiet from we get up until 9 am. This means morning, morning practice and breakfast in #silence. Now, people who know we are already laughing their heads of. Tine - not talking?! Yeah, well ... it can be done. I chose to sit alone during breakfast, only to retreat to the pool with my coffee (I know...sounds so hard). And I enjoyed it. Not using words forced me to just be, and feel and #sence and listen and taste and be - here. I observe that people around me are much camler and seem peaceful. Imagine the whole resort, the whole town, the whole region, the whole country in silence for an hour. Where would all that #talking-energy go? What could we do with it? Hmmm...

Well - I have been arriving... A long #flight from #Denmark to #Kelapa Cottage in Bali, what a #world of difference. I have met so many #wonderful #persons, #helpful and #giving! I have a restored #belief in humanity:-). This is what met me when I left #morning #yogapractice this morning. I am #learning, #meeting, #facing #fears, developing, teaching, studying, talking, thinking in a second language...and I am #tired.  So, I am out until tomorrow - this is my day off:-). Namaste!

Today is the day - in more sence than one! I have now checked in at BLL #Denmark bound for #Bali via #Amsterdam. I have said my goodbyes with my boys and with my hubbie - knowing they will do just fine without me for 4 weeks. Oh, but I will miss them - and that is ok.  The terrible news from #Nice, France, makes me think about what safety is. Is it being free of danger? Is it avoiding crowds? Is it loving and being #loved? I hope that all my love for my family can give them freedom and space to move. I feel their love. I love you guys, Karsten, Georg and Alfred! Who would have thought, I'd have 3 men in my life? Lucky girl, I am!

Packing - YAY!  I love it and I hate it. I always bring too much...how much #stuff do you need for 29 days in #Bali? Certainly #books and a straw hat and Danish candy and a hair dryer and clothes and note books (note plural) and chargers (also plural) and more clothes and bikinis and....For once I have not packed heels... only practical #footwear! This is quite mature of me. AND I have not reached the airlines #limit of 23 kg - yet. I have never in my life packed so much #yoga wear, let alone a yoga mat. (The last two times I travelled with a yoga mat, was from #Hamburg (from #Luluemon store - have no good yoga store in DK. I am so looking forward to visiting the #goyogi store in Aarhus after Bali) to #Denmark). #Tomorrow I leave my #husband and best friend, Karsten, and my to boys, Georg and Alfred. My "mind is racing while I pack - I am starting an adventure without the loves of my life, I am leaving them behind. I am going to miss them awfully - but I will return a #stro...