#behindtheyogi

Thanks to veggieaddict or tagging me xx

Tag #behindtheyogi and 4 yoginis to play behind the yogini and then answer these simple questions:

Name: Leare

Birthday & Sign: August 24th, Virgo

Last song listened to:  Carried away by Passion Pit

Hobby: Drawing, reading, sports, listenning to music.

Celebrity crush: Bill Skarsgård (for the gurl who tagged me), Tim Shieff, Natalie Dormer

Something you splurge on: drawing material, fruits

Upcoming personal goals: Run 10k, begin yoga, begin parkour, finish reading buddishm for dummies, go vegan.

Favorite Quote: I don't really have one so I'm just going to say LOVE YOURSELF

Share 3 secret yoga behaviors:

-Say I need to begin yoga

- Actually do 10 min of oga

- Dies of exerction

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Tagged by: diary-of-a-wandering-soul

How it works: Tag #behindtheyogi, 4 yoginis and answer the questions

Name: Heather

Birthday & Sign: March 9, Pisces

Last song listened: "The War Within" by Churchill

Hobby: Sleeping, eating, reading, walking

Celebrity crush: More like a fictional crush - Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey. And Susan Surandon.

Something you splurge on: Great food

Upcoming personal goals: Live One Day at a Time; be easy on myself

Favorite Quote: "Love everybody, serve everybody, remember God." —Neem Karoli Baba (unknown-1973), Maharaj-ji

Share 3 secret yoga behaviors: 1. I go days without showering even if I've practiced in the hot room a few times. 2. I always look around to see who else is practicing. 3. I pray and thank my teachers right before I go into class to teach.

Tag #behindtheyogi and 4 yoginis to play behind the yogini and then answer these simple questions: Name: Maxime Birthday & Sign: 11th of November, Scorpio Last song listened: African Fire by Soldier’s Heart :) Hobby: Reading, taking walks in nature, photography, cuddling kittens and yoga Celebrity crush: Tom Hiddleston Something you splurge on: Books, good coffee/tea and food Upcoming personal goals: Starting to teach yoga and trying to be kinder to myself Favorite Quote: We create our own destiny Share 3 secret yoga behaviors: 1. I haven’t practised in a studio for almost a year now and I am really starting to miss it although home practice is really nice 2. I like to have music in the background of my ashtanga practice, or practise outside (yes I’m quite the rebel) 3. I like to start my practice by spending some time in child’s pose to centre, so sometimes practice becomes naptime!

Thanks to hannairina i have to do this now. Well...thank you 

Name: Binh

Birthday & Sign: Dec 10th & Sagittarius

Last song listened to:  Everybody wants to rule the world - Lorde

Hobby:  friends. movies. food. 

Celebrity crush: none

Something you splurge on: food. movies.

Upcoming personal goals: viparita chakrasana. understanding my nature of being.

Favorite Quote: none

Share 3 secret yoga behaviors:

I do more poses than i actually should and often multiple times in a row.

I have a shift day which gives me more freedom. but still stick to six days a week practice.

I am an ashtanga nerd and can recall what was changed within the sequence in every decade.

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Tag #behindtheyogi and 4 yoginis to play behind the yogini and then answer these simple questions:

Name: Tia

Birthday & Sign: July 6th! *casually rolls out a wheelchair* gettin' old, guys.

Last song listened to:  If I Could Change Your Mind - HAIM

Hobby: I consider fitness my hobby. I also really enjoy reading and playing sports whenever I have the time!

Celebrity crush:  WHERE DO I BEGIN? Kit Harington, Andrew Garfield, Aaron Paul, Dave Franco, Garrett Hedlund, Matty Healy, and about 100 other guys.

Something you splurge on: Clothes!

Upcoming personal goals: Learn to live in the present and appreciate what I have. I'd also like to becoming less reliant on technology (yes, I watched the "Look up" video on Youtube...)

Favorite Quote: "You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Share 3 secret yoga behaviors: Mehhh... I don't really do yoga regularly. Just when I feel really stiff and need a good stretch. These will just be my 3 common yoga thoughts:

Thinking "da fuck" every time the pose changes

Wishing that I could be really good at yoga while having little to no patience for it

"I WANNA TRY HOT YOGA"

I got tagged by transluzent after she did this very cute survey so here we go.

Tag #behindtheyogi and 4 yoginis to play behind the yogini and then answer these simple questions:

Name: Jesse

Birthday & Sign: February 28th, Pisces

Last song listened to: "Restless" - the matches

Hobby: Riding my bike, but I'm not very fast or anything.  And I like to read

Celebrity crush: Ellen Page

Something you splurge on: I think I splurge on food a lot more than anything else - sometimes it's silly because I could easily make a given thing at home for way cheaper but then I just buy it.  I also buy 10 books in one go when I still have a stack that I haven't read yet.

Upcoming personal goals: I don't know!  I think my main goal is to figure out what I want.  Go to grad school, get a different job, travel...

Favorite Quote: You have more freedom than you're using

Share 3 secret yoga behaviors:

1. I sleep in my yoga clothes so that when I get up to go to Mysore I can just feed the animals and go, since I have to have left the house by 5:15

2. I always stop breathing when I go into a dropback.

3. Once a week when I do my practice twice in a row, the second time through my breaths are always much much shorter, but my movements are way more efficient.

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Name: Hanna

Birthday & Sign: August 2nd, Lio

Last song listened: Actually I have no idea. I spend a lot of time in silence.

Hobby: Making stuff, gardening, ashtanga. I think that pretty much covers it.

Celebrity crush: Olivier Giroud

Something you splurge on: This would have to be fabric or yarn, and I try to keep it at minimum. I make most of my own clothes, and don't want them to wear out after the first wash, and that means getting good materials.

Upcoming personal goals: Do something that will affect the way we consume things. Be able to work on my chosen field while doing so. This one's tricky and contradicts itself.

Favorite Quote: Things tend to work out. (Says my grandmother.)

Share 3 secret yoga behaviors: 1. Same as Tanja: I rarely bother to shower after Saturday morning yoga, because I did just before the practice, I'm not really going anywhere, and my hair looks nice after the inversions. 2. Sometimes I cheat in things one teacher told me to do when I'm at another teacher's class. And explain myself that I'll just focus on different things this time. 3. Every now and them I start to listen to teacher's advice to others (because it's interesting) and accidentally count to seven.

Name: Nikita Akilapa (yogawithnikita.com)

Birthday and star sign: 18th July (Cancer)

Last song listened to: Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

Hobby:  Playing the guitar, balcony gardening

Celebrity crush: Natalie Portman, Lisa Bonet

Something you splurge on: .Food. I spend A LOT of money on fresh organic fruit and veg. And yoga clothes - I tell myself that it;s my uniform so it's kind of ok. Oh, and on physical/energetic healing, like reiki and chiropractic treatments.

Upcoming personal goals: For my new Monday night level 1-2 classes to be a success; to organise and lead my first yoga retreat/holiday for a group of my clients; to save up enough money to take my daughter on holiday to Thailand

Favourite quote(s):

"Happiness is an Inside job" (William Arthur Ward)

"It always seems impossible until it's done" (Nelson Mandela)

Share 3 secret yoga behaviours: 

1. I'm a busy working momma, and so I don't put pressure on myself to practice for an hour daily anymore. It's impossible! These days, I give myself permission to spend only 10 mins on the mat every day. Sometimes it turns into 20, sometimes 45 and sometimes 90 mins, if I have the time. But many days it's just ten mins of inner focus and movement. Renegotiating my notion of what constitutes a 'proper practice' has been essential for maintaining my personal relationship with yoga. 

2. In addition to this ten min mat-time allowance, I do at least one handstand and one forearm stand every day. 

3. I like to practice with my hair untied, because I love how wild it feels