Welcome to a holistic yoga experience With Katie Lee Toth. Trained in holy Rishikesh, India at the foothills of the Himalayas, along India's mighty Ganges River. Katie received her 200 hr YTT in October of 2009 and continually strives to help all who cross her path, heal from the inside out. Join Katie for yoga the way it is meant to be taught with hatha, pranayama, meditation, mantra and relaxation. Om shanti!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Im officially a yoga teacher!
Namaste, Hari Om-
WEll I graduated yesterday! I taught my third class on Thursday and everyone like Johanna and my sequence so much they all wanted to copy it. That was a pretty good feeling. WE have come to a close some people have already moved on. And for once in my life I am not sad to move on. Normally I cling and don't want things to end but this time I feel OK. I feel good about moving on. WE had a really neat experience the other day. We practiced Kundalini Yoga again. Man that is some powerful stuff. So we spend all class raising our Kundalini energy which is compared to a coiled snake at the base of your pelvis and through opening your nadis (or energy channels-which we have many of in our body, similar to meridians or chi lines) to allow the energy to flow freely so we are all getting charged up one can feel the air vibrating all around us and then Vishva-ji has us all chant Maa. Over and over and over again at our own breath. Chanting Maa to honor our mothers, where we are from our roots and honoring mother earth. I think out of 40+ people only like five were able to remain chaNTING cuz the rest of us were sobbing hysterically. Later that day we chanted again and the flood gates opened up. One girl in particular was releasing 9 years of repressed emotions so Vishva took her in front of him and made us all sit in a circle and chant mama to her. She sobbed so hard just releasing it all out. No where in my life have I felt so comfortable so at home in crying my eyes out in front of all these people. We are all free to release, free to release with out judgement and with full support. I called my mama immediately after the Kundalini class in the AM to tell here I loved her. I think ALL OF us have a new found love and apprecitation for our mothers. SO get this then, Thursday night was our last Kirtan the same day as the maa chanting and so VIshva again makes us chant another Maa maa chant and we were all like nooooooo dont make us do it again we were all tapped out from crying. So we started chanting and this particular mantra was a little more beautiful. SO while in the middle of chanting Vishvas mom came in the room and told him something and left. when we finished he told us that the Mother cow had her baby!!!!! We were all pretty sure it was the power of our our vibrations that made her have it on that day. we were feeding her our energy telling her it was ok and it was time. It was sooooo coool! The ashram has an orgainc garden that they feed us from and a few cows that provide us with milk everyday. mmmmmm. Last night we had a a picture slide show after dinner and They brought us milk from the new mom cow. The milk still contained the Colostrum in it and it was rather chunky and kinda gross to think about but I had some anyway and it was sooo sweet and delicious. Plus I have been rather sick now and I was hoping it would help my immune system. Needless to say I did not drink the chunks. I was also concerned about taking milk away from the baby but Vishva assured me that the mother produces 8x more than the baby can drink. It was very exciting! we all got to go see the baby and it was no more than an hour old and it was already standing. SO cute and the mama cow was very protective. It was such a wonderful experience. So the fact that we all have so much great energy and power together it only makes sense that we have to go out and spread it around the world. T'would be rather greedy to keep all of this energy in one place. So that being said I am ready to come home and spread the love! The more we love and accept ourselves the more we can share with others. So look out people here I come with big smiles and open arms!
I cant believe my time here is done. I dint even know what the date is. I know that I leave the ashram tomorrow for a very long ride to Delhi and then for a super long airplane ride home. I get into Chicago Monday morning at 5 and leave around 11 to go home to Tampa. SO if anyone is in Chi town in the AM come and see me.
Love you all!!!!!!
Katie
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