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Today Yashendu, Ramona and me
went to Melle to start the new Yoga Teacher Training
there. We passed a lot of time in the train or
carrying our heavy luggage from one platform to
another.
Once arrived in Melle we
got to know our new yoga students. In our sharing
circle I explained them my basic idea about me, my
work and my aim:
"I do not even
remember when I started doing Yoga. I came to
Germany the first time in 2001. In my first trip out
of India I came to Germany, Spain and London. I
visited many places, many yoga centers and met many
people. Somehow I was always asked which tradition I
came from and which kind of yoga I was doing. From
these questions I was a little bit confused and
normally I would not say that I am a confused
person. However this question really confused me. In
India I had never heard from any tradition. And then
visiting different countries and different yoga
centers people I hear people say 'I do this
yoga, I do that yoga, I come from this tradition, I
follow that tradition'. I heard this very
often and I started wondering one thing: If Patanjali, who wrote the Yoga-Sutras 2600 years ago
came to this world now and saw this he would be
really shocked. I bet he never thought that there
would be this many traditions and different ways of
doing yoga.
If someone is doing yoga in
India, he is doing yoga not the yoga-style of
anyone. I believe this started here because people
feel good if they feel that they belong to
something, when they have a label. From my side I
would like to let you know that I do not see myself
coming from any tradition and I am not at all
interested in starting a new tradition. I could come
here and teach here and say this is
'Swami-style-yoga'. This is how
traditions start. I feel that everybody is unique.
Whatever Jutta, Yashendu or I will teach you or what
you will teach to your students, it will always be
unique. We all have our unique soul."
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