SG Workshop: Balance & Flow

We are nothing and everything is communication - a principle all yogis and Buddhists are familiar with.

No matter wether we practice with strangers, friends, family members or our beloved partner: during shared yoga and movement exercises, good and direct communication becomes particularly relevant when you are supporting another person’s body weight with your own and try to balance (with) them.

On March 27th, 2019, Ella Fazilah and I joined forces and taught a group of international students at Anahata Studio Singapore, in Hadji Lane, our workshop “Balance and Flow”. The focus was on partner- and group work as we combined a selection of grounding individual yoga and breathwork exercises with acrobatic partner balances and non-aggressive communication practices. Many of the Singaporean members of the community had been asking for ways to better communicate during partner work, so we offered this course to fill the gap.

Back to the roots

Ella and I go way back. She used to come to my house when I started practicing yoga in Singapore in 2010. She welcomed me into her culture, taught me how to cook Malaysian food, and she became my first yoga teacher. After a while, we used to have group classes with her on the back porch or in the salon, before starting to gradually host more and more international teachers who travelled to the Lion City for classes and immersives.

Her jolly spirit and the ancient teachings fuelled my hunger for yoga, so I practiced yoga every day until I myself became a yoga teacher in the following years.

Teaching alongside my first yoga teacher

The class started with a meditation and yoga warmup, followed by partner and group balances. After 90 minutes, the participants had opened up to each other, as everyone had helped someone else to “fly” or “base”, and “spotted” the others who were about to over come their personal balance limitations.

Thank you dear Ella for sharing your joy for yoga and wellbeing with me and the students.
It was a real pleasure!