,, Go for it!’’
Yoga with Jimena, a Workshop at Performers House
2. March 09/ On a regular basis, from one time in the evening to five times a week Jimena, our dancer from Mexico holds a yoga class. It is not the regular relaxation and breathing exercises but a combination of yoga, pilates and dance elements as well as gymnastic and aerobic exercises. Jimena is teaching “vinyasa yoga” that creates a flow between the more static, traditional yoga postures and links the movement to the breath. So for one and a half hours we connect to our minds and our bodies.
How it started …
Jimena herself met yoga at the age of 12 on TV. She tried it but, but it didn’t have a big effect. She only found physical training without deeper meaning. The second encounter, which took place in June 2008, was more of a success story: after she had finished her ballet classes at the dance school she attended in Mexico, a friend of her invited Jimena to join the yoga classes. Jimena got to like the sessions immediately and continued attending them every day. This was the time as well when Jimena realized, that in the future she wouldn’t be a dancer in that particular school anymore. So yoga became important to her in building her routine in dancing, and it gave her energy as well.
The side effects
These aren’t the only benefits of yoga. To those who exercise it regularly it provides mind discipline, guidance of how to connect with your own body, improves the focus on what you want and how you can get it - and most importantly: happiness and energy. Furthermore it might have an effect on your lifestyle as well as it happened in the case of Jimena: on an impulse given by yoga she became a vegetarian (that was also surprising after her bad experiences at the age of 14 when she tried it out as well without success).
Jimena’s own experiences confirmed that the principles work and have a practical effect as well:
- If your mind is calm and peaceful you can react to external impulses effectively, she says.
No space between it …
Yoga is for everybody, musicians attend classes just as well as student of the dance or theater line – creating an interdisciplinary environment, a small island of peace in the struggle of everyday life:
- There is no right or wrong in yoga. It is about your own rhythm and routine - that is sometimes not so easy to find.
- But go for it!
Namasté
Jimena emphasizes that she herself is not a master in yoga; actually this is her first time teaching it. But the result is clear: a bunch of happy students, willing to attend her sessions from time to time. Let us dedicate this article to Jimena and finish it with the word: Namasté (as we finish every class). It means “thank you for your effort and time”.
You may not be a master but you definitely are the guru of yoga of Performers House!
Written by: Zanda and Zsófi, photo by Zanda
