5 day Intensive June 12-17th 2009, with Donna Farhi at Triyoga, London

Sunday evening in London and I am halfway through a five day yoga intensive with Donna Farhi at Triyoga, Primrose Hill, London. I registered for this intensive in February and didn't spend a lot of time contemplating what the course would contain or what I was hoping to learn. The description of the intensive spoke to me and the timing was perfect for me. My expectations were high considering the enormous respect I have for Donna's writing in the three books that I have read written by her. At this stage I have experienced a spectrum of emotions from feeling mystified and confused to a deep feeling of surrender. I am slowlybeginning to feel the shape and form of what this training is teaching me. Donna is unconventional in her approach to yoga (by my standards) and guides us to question our own practice and perception of what yoga means to us. I frequently feel ill fit and spend a lot of time throughout the sessions trying to make sense of what I'm hearing. We do very little asana and when we do it is asana I have never experienced before. Deeply moving and demanding on a level that I intuitively know is so right. There is an insistence to remain present and focused despite the lack of dynamic asanas. All in all I'm experiencing a yoga practice that I have been unconsciously craving for a long time. Deep guided yoga nidra, savansana and restorative yoga have offered me the space my yoga practice and subsequent teaching needs.
This yoga is opening the opportunities for who I can be. Being fluid enough to adopt a change in spite of the internal turmoil and conflict with my perception of myself.
In contrast to this quietening and slowing of the senses I have at the end of the last two days walked from Primrose Hill to Camden Town to the weekend street markets that are a rude contrast to the slowpaced environment at Triyoga!! I love being here on my own and having the time and space to digest the content of each session and being bombarded for a few hours by wandering through the market as a silent observer!!