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I'm a guy and there is no way I can do that pose!

So, here’s a thing, and if you are a guy starting out in yoga you most probably thought this at some point, there are poses that women make look effortless while you are struggling to just get your arm the other side of your body! You are left there shaking

Balasana – aka Child’s Pose

Balasana or Child’s pose is one of the most frequent poses to rest.  The pose represents the child within the womb and you will often be asked to move into this after a challenging asana to rest or when the teacher wants you to centre your mind for reflection. I

Fly like a Crow

Lacking arm strength; collapsing weight into my wrists; and being afraid to smash my face on the floor. Yes, that was me and my hatred of Crow Pose (Bakasana). That is, until my Yoga Teacher Training Course. When some of the other students were tasked with breaking down the Crow

The Girl from the Jungle and the Muladhara Chakra

When I was six, my parents and my siblings finally came clean – they had spun a lie for the past few years that I was not actually a true family member. Instead, they had told me, I had been found in a rubbish bin in the centre of Bandar Seri

Yoga Practice and course experience

Growing up, Yoga was always a passive part of my life. It started with school when we had a weekly Yoga session for 30-45 minutes. Back then, that half hour was a good excuse for me to get away from books and doing Asanas hardly mattered. In College, our College

Remember to Breathe

Sometimes when I go for yoga sessions, the teacher will always remind me to breathe when I am holding the poses. When some poses are challenging, subconsciously my breathing becomes inconsistent or I will be holding my breath. I was too focused to get the stretch and the balance from

How to do yoga during a backpacking vacation

Every year, I always look forward to my next destination for my holiday. Recent years, I am into backpacking and hiking, exploring Southeast Asian countries. Places of interest are usually not close to each other. Traveling from cities to another one with a huge backpack and taking long bus rides is definitely not

How to balance my Chakra?

I was not introduced to Chakra during my weekly yoga sessions. I was taught how to do the poses and hopefully at the end of the day sweat it all out. There are a total of 7 chakras in our body. Doing certain yoga poses will balance these chakras and

There's nothing to complain about – Santosha

When I was younger, I always envy my classmates who could go for vacations during school holidays. I don’t have that privilege until I reached 20 years old. That was the age that I took my first airplane to overseas. Of course, first few vacations were mainly for shopping. Only

Mystery of the Chakras

I’ve had heard of Chakras before and that it had something to do with energy within the body, but never understood exactly what it was and that they involve colours, sounds, elements, that they are located in an upward straight line along the spine and that each Chakra has a

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