Yoga reading notes | Yoga training notes | Yoga practice insights | Yoga stories | Yoga and life (This is a column about Yoga stories, and the main characters are you, me and others.
If this story can stir your heart strings, even for a moment, that’s enough!) In January 2016, Zou Jie was alone at Bangalore Airport, India, with anxiety, depression and helplessness He was still helpless…
This was his first time to go abroad.
He set out from Guangzhou, passed Phuket, Thailand, and finally arrived in India, where he wanted to go to the KPattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute, India, with full confidence.
But now he was stopped by the local customs because he did not book a hotel and did not have a return flight ticket, which caused various suspicions from the customs.
Xu was touched by his persistence.
After two hours of efforts, the customs released him, and he officially set foot in India, but it was only a small step closer to the destination.
Next, he needs to borrow a mobile phone from a stranger, use poor English to contact the brother of Maya teacher, find a taxi reserved for him, and take another 4-5 hours to drive.
At midnight, he finally arrived at Mysore, a small city in southern India, and was taken in by a kind northeast elder brother for a night.
The next day, Zou Jie walked into the gate of Atang General Hospital in India as he wished.
He was a little sad when he recalled all the things about this trip.
In order to study here, he had to find friends everywhere to raise money for tuition; If you don’t know anything about the general hospital and local conditions, please consult the Maya teacher who once taught him the Ashtanga Yoga training course.
But with the idea of coming, his dream came true.
Although it was a little tortuous, he still came.
Here, a place that is regarded as a palace by practitioners of soup all over the world, Zou Jie began to re understand yoga and soup.
It is not too much to say that he has opened a new chapter in his life since then.
As a yoga teacher, he is serious! Zou Jie’s transformation from a yoga practitioner to a part-time teacher is so ordinary and logical.
He attaches great importance to qualification.
Even in China, yoga teachers are not a profession recognized by the state.
He still feels that he has the blessing of qualification, which is a guarantee for himself and his students.
Therefore, he obtained the intermediate qualification certificate of fitness instructor of the General Administration of Sport of China.
After that, Zou Jie continued to study and learned E-RYT200 hour yoga teacher qualification certificate.
At that time, he would practice, but he was more arbitrary and not very regular.
In addition to teaching yoga, he also offered yoga teacher training courses.
It can be said that he is serious as a yoga teacher and has a strong thirst for knowledge in the yoga world.
After a few years, Zou Jie began to find his own yoga teaching direction.
He happened to find that the founders of many yoga schools would initially practice A Tang, and he would pay special attention to this school.
It happened that when he attended a training, he knew the Maya teacher from India, and he buried the seeds of going to India to learn Ah Tang.
(For more stories about Zou Jie’s acquaintance and companionship with yoga, please refer to the story | After 13 years of hard work, what did he experience from part-time teacher to yoga master?) If you want to obtain the professional qualification of teaching A Tang, the only way is to go to A Tang General Hospital in India for further study.
For his first trip to India, Zou Jie’s goal is very simple and clear, which has nothing to do with obtaining authorization.
“The Ayrtong General Hospital of India is a place that the Ayrtong practitioners all over the world yearn for.
There will be a step-by-step training program.
Practitioners of different levels can harvest what they want there.
Before going there, I didn’t know this.
I just wanted to see the birthplace of this genre.” Before the embarrassment of going to India for further study at the Ayrtong General Hospital, Zou Jie’s Ayrtong sequence was not finished, and Maric D could barely tie it, Sleeping turtle cannot be tied.
Since he did not practice with the yoga teacher authorized by the General Hospital for 2-3 months, he was not qualified to report to the leader class, but had to report to the mother class first.
Mother Class is a classroom set up by Sharath Jois’s mother, who is the leader of the class.
Students affectionately call it “Mother Class”.
One day, a white assistant teacher ran to Zou Jie’s side to help him with the turtle posture, but he couldn’t do it.
The TA asked him to stop and stop practicing the following postures.
At that time, his English was not very clever, and he did not understand the meaning of the assistant, so he continued to practice on his own.
The assistant had to turn to his mother for help.
After his mother came over, he directly asked Zou Jie what he was doing, but because of the language barrier, he was unable to communicate effectively with his mother.
He didn’t understand until his mother asked him if he was Chinese.
At that moment, he felt a little embarrassed and humiliated the Chinese.
When he participated in the training class of Atang in China before, the teacher would allow the students to continue to do the following poses even if a certain individual style could not be done, which was obviously contrary to the teaching philosophy of Atang General Institute in India.
Later, his mother patiently explained to him, “If you can’t do the tortoise pose, you will be easily injured if you do it later.
The traditional practice of Ah Tang is not like this.” My mother found that he came to India to practice the sequence of Ah Tang, and he would stay here for another month and a half.
She told him that as long as he could practice with her guidance and methods and listen to her, he could achieve his goals and be a good student.
Since then, Zou Jie found that his mother would pay special attention to him.
Once he achieved the tortoise style, she would run to help him with his leggings.
After about a week, he would be ready to roll it, and his mother began to teach him the next move.
Gradually, he learned that the teacher used Sanskrit to guide students to do actions.
For the first time, he taught them actions, which was called blessing..
