first things first...I've never been one to give myself away, although I'm so Gawd dang open as a person, I've always held my heart real close to home, so what I'm 'bout to do is huge...I not only got myself a brand new email addy, but I'm making it public.... Lawrence.Jacob@pure-yoga.com ... use-it...really, tell me your thoughts, your concerns, or your need for a Yoga teacher that sees the world through the eyes of a Hip-Hop loving poetic, soul.
In fact, I'd like to continue...spreading my cyber prints to those that come across-it, but I realize that the website that most access it from, Yaletown Yoga's sight, is bound for an update soon. With all the amazing new teachers coming through those doors, and my new home being in Asia(my heart just sank), it's just a matter of time before my pretty mug is removed, and with that the link to this blog disappearing. So please peeps, send some ideas, of other sights i can link to, and other outlets to get my words to you....I will to have a GOBEEFREE website eventually, but in the mean time this is the start of something special, and it needs a chance to grow, a chance to be nurtured and in all honesty...honesty represents the one who speaks it best...any influences otherwise direct the truth towards indifference, and if you ask me nothing can be more useless and boring then indifference, as my favourite acting teacher taught me for 2 long uncomfortable years, "Have an Opinion"...that's Yoga.
This in itself is an interesting topic to engage in...especially when one's opinion messes with the plans of others...
Becoming the you that you already are, involves recreating yourself, yet not in the sense that the media talks about how Madonna contours to recreate herself, we are so much deeper then a costume change, it's true that our identity is expressed through the manifestation of our words and fashion but how it's brought out is ultimately about what we stand for...
so what do you stand for?
what are you willing to give(or give up) to get the truth out of yourself.
My road to Hong Kong came through so much battle with myself, with people in my life that felt comfortable with who I was to them. These people helped create a stage for my maturity, a stage that was big enough for me to grow in, but the safety of that crib became too stifled to flourish from. When I listened deeply to truths about myself, and what served me, in more ways then one I had to move away from what was the "home" of the moment, those comfort zone's weren't exclusive to cities, or jobs, but became about vision, and creativity.
Art is the ultimate Opinion; and when a seeds has enough courage to flourish beyond what the pot can support, allot of times the pot knows they can't grow at the same rate as the seed, and fears how that recreates their design...
When your soul longs to evolve....the universe will do everything in it's power to stop it, so the soul can prove it's worth.
Proven
LJ
HK
Nov 21 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
I MUST.
When your two closest teachers say the same thing, separately in a matter of seconds(one over ichat, the other in a facebook message) well you know what to do, Listen!!
In fact both Elissa and Christine are major reasons for the mess I got myself into, they introduced me to a language that took me straight from my head through my body, (in the form of loops and spirals) and jacked open my heart. Both have effected me in potent ways on and off the mat, both have a relationship to me that is independent of the other, while all along they both allowed me to join them as the "other" Anusara teacher, at the studio, the studio I practiced my first Yoga class at, and four years to the day(plus or minus 5 days) taught my first class at, in fact, E , begged me to cover her ass, on that May 2ND afternoon, as Ysquared was still in shambles (we'd just moved the day earlier from 1232 Richards).
I'm writing this from not Hong Kong but Singapore, where I've travelled to, to spend two expanding days with Desiree Rumbaugh. Des, was both E's and CPC's teacher back in the day, so the influence these two have on me is quite literally shaping me...or to be more "specific", cause that's what a good yoga teacher is, sculpting me, every time I lengthen my side body, take my arms bones back, then push my heart forward using the tips of my shoulder blades, well this duo is responsible. Once again in more ways then one, I'm opening my heart in this blog, because they both with intense urgency asked me to write, cause they wanted to see it, hear it and knew it would serve me... when your teachers have that type of interest and curiosity for you...you are blessed, I am blessed, and guess what, so are 30 some students that this weekend start a 108 hour immersion with them, Fuck ya!!!!! go girls!!!!!! Go Anusara!!!!!!(Steve even asked me for the John Friend CD's he gave me, back, so he could continue to study it, a lil friendly nudge bro) and huge sadness goes through me, for nobody in the world wants to be there more, and yet, I'll be furthest away, but like Elissa and I just shared in our cyber chat, you can be sure that a piece of my heart will join this experience and every moment that occurs in that studio, in front of that brass Ganesha that is sitting on the ledge, which I bought(and am still finishing the payments on) in Cincinnati, Ohio, when I did my teacher training with John Friend founder of the flowing with grace system.
And there in lies the reason we move on, to grow through opportunity, this week Desiree, next is three days with John himself, and after that 55 classes a month, (no Joanne as a teacher not student) is there anything other then Yoga...? there might not be, this ain't BC folks, that I can attest to by the lack of green in Hong Kong....whatever that means to you, to me it means a whole new way to experience life, for now...but I'm writing, I'm sticking handstands with more consistency then ever, the whammy is Eila, my saviour, is here.
Eila and I have been splitting up a group of international teens on Friday afternoons and well it's so cool to teach with my first teacher, so as much as things change they stay the same. I miss the casual of Yaletown Yoga, but watch out Pure Yoga, cause I do tend to put dents into shinny surfaces...and give them character.
I just finished my Bio on the www.pure-yoga.com sight, check it out, it's cute how the Asians mis-spell, and well Elissa and Christine I have been writing, and I promise to keep your teachings close to my heart, and always WRITE NOW.
In fact both Elissa and Christine are major reasons for the mess I got myself into, they introduced me to a language that took me straight from my head through my body, (in the form of loops and spirals) and jacked open my heart. Both have effected me in potent ways on and off the mat, both have a relationship to me that is independent of the other, while all along they both allowed me to join them as the "other" Anusara teacher, at the studio, the studio I practiced my first Yoga class at, and four years to the day(plus or minus 5 days) taught my first class at, in fact, E , begged me to cover her ass, on that May 2ND afternoon, as Ysquared was still in shambles (we'd just moved the day earlier from 1232 Richards).
I'm writing this from not Hong Kong but Singapore, where I've travelled to, to spend two expanding days with Desiree Rumbaugh. Des, was both E's and CPC's teacher back in the day, so the influence these two have on me is quite literally shaping me...or to be more "specific", cause that's what a good yoga teacher is, sculpting me, every time I lengthen my side body, take my arms bones back, then push my heart forward using the tips of my shoulder blades, well this duo is responsible. Once again in more ways then one, I'm opening my heart in this blog, because they both with intense urgency asked me to write, cause they wanted to see it, hear it and knew it would serve me... when your teachers have that type of interest and curiosity for you...you are blessed, I am blessed, and guess what, so are 30 some students that this weekend start a 108 hour immersion with them, Fuck ya!!!!! go girls!!!!!! Go Anusara!!!!!!(Steve even asked me for the John Friend CD's he gave me, back, so he could continue to study it, a lil friendly nudge bro) and huge sadness goes through me, for nobody in the world wants to be there more, and yet, I'll be furthest away, but like Elissa and I just shared in our cyber chat, you can be sure that a piece of my heart will join this experience and every moment that occurs in that studio, in front of that brass Ganesha that is sitting on the ledge, which I bought(and am still finishing the payments on) in Cincinnati, Ohio, when I did my teacher training with John Friend founder of the flowing with grace system.
And there in lies the reason we move on, to grow through opportunity, this week Desiree, next is three days with John himself, and after that 55 classes a month, (no Joanne as a teacher not student) is there anything other then Yoga...? there might not be, this ain't BC folks, that I can attest to by the lack of green in Hong Kong....whatever that means to you, to me it means a whole new way to experience life, for now...but I'm writing, I'm sticking handstands with more consistency then ever, the whammy is Eila, my saviour, is here.
Eila and I have been splitting up a group of international teens on Friday afternoons and well it's so cool to teach with my first teacher, so as much as things change they stay the same. I miss the casual of Yaletown Yoga, but watch out Pure Yoga, cause I do tend to put dents into shinny surfaces...and give them character.
I just finished my Bio on the www.pure-yoga.com sight, check it out, it's cute how the Asians mis-spell, and well Elissa and Christine I have been writing, and I promise to keep your teachings close to my heart, and always WRITE NOW.
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