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#1

Hello everybody! :smiley:

I am new to this forum. I used to talk on another yoga forum, stopped for a couple months and now I can’t find it :frowning:
Luckily though, I came across this forum!!! :grin: Yay!

I have chosen to use Kamma as my online name, as my actual name means “Worthy of Love” and Kamma I was told means “Loveable”. I thought they were close enough.

I have been practicing yoga, mostly Hatha; Vinyasa Flow Yoga, and Restorative Yoga, for just over two years. I am currently taking a yoga teacher training course to further my knowledge in Yoga. I am near the end of the course and am actually considering the possibility of teaching now. However, during my training, I have slowly started trying to adapt my life to that of a yogi. I am now a vegetarian, with BBQ season coming up, I know this is just going to get harder. Due to the small town I live in there is very little support for someone trying to live a yogic lifestyle. I thought I might be able to get some support by joining a forum and finding some online yogi friends. I hope I get a chance to chat with you all, and look forward to the great conversations which may lie ahead.

#2

Hi everybody,

and hello Kamma, welcome.

I am also new to this forum, just finding my feet, not really sure how to make a completely new post, so I am very sorry if this is the wrong way or the wrong place to start out.

I have also been practacing Hatha yoga for a few years, but have been very comitted over the last two years. I will be taking a TTC at one of the Sivananda Ashrams in 2011, but just not sure which Ashram to take the course.

Out of all of them I am seriously considering the Ashrams in the following locations:

Val Morin, Quebec, canada

Woodbourne, New York

Bahamas, Paradise Island, Nassau

If any one has studied their teacher training course at any of the above Ashrams, please tell me what the Ashram is like. I have noticed that the Ashram in Canada has a sauna!!! seems pretty luxurious compared to the other Ashrams, but I am wondering whether the picture of the sauna is too good to be true and possibly a marketing device, to persuade you to choose that particular Ashram!!! Obviously, the importance isn’t the sauna, however, if the students do not get to use the sauna and it’s just for guests or for special use, or at an additional cost, I’d love to know!!! (I could call them to find out)

I’m planning to take the course no earlier than July 2011, so if there’s anything you could tell me about these Ashrams, i.e quality of the teaching standard, how busy the Ashrams are from summer compared to winter, what the teachers are like, FOOD quality at the Ashrams, general hygiene of Ashrams, events held at Ashrams, how you spent your days off, how strict they are, do they check your bags for certain items? -the website states no MOBILE PHONES!!! anything else you can think of that I should be prepared for.

I can appreciate that not all of you will have visited all these Ashrams, but any advice and info would be very helpful.

Namaste

x

#3

great forum! Stick with us!

#4

I anyone there?

#5

Greetings!

I am Swami Adityananda, an old sannyasin sādhaka who has lived alone for many years time in a remote hermitage in the heart of the Chequamegon National Forest of Northern Wisconsin, USA.

I will post on relevant topics from time to time, providing that doing so doesn’t interfere with my Sadhana.

Warm regards to All ~

Adityananda

#6

Hi Kamma,

How is your TTC and yogi lifestyle treating you? Did you study your TTC in Florida? With which company? Have you dived into the teaching pool yet. Hope you are well.

Namaste