Sue Hawkins
Sue Hawkins' experience is based upon her own journey through Yoga. From the high profile, fast paced life in Sydney as a TV Producer to her life in Byron Bay now, she teaches from her own yoga studio and runs Yoga Retreats and Yoga Getaways in Byron Bay and overseas where you can experience yoga, meditation, pranayama, chanting, massage, pampering and healing sessions. Sue's Yoga Vacations are an uplifting journey into self.
Sue discovered yoga 23 years ago and has studied Iyengar Yoga in Sydney and completed a teacher training course at Yoga Arts in Byron Bay in Astanga and Hatha yoga. She decided to further her studies and travelled to India for a yoga vacation to study with BNS Iyengar in Mysore. Practicising Astanga and deepening her understanding of the spiritual aspects of yoga. This also involved a Mantra Initiation with a Vishnava Guru to deepen her connection with spirit and to move her life path even deeper in the direction of teaching Yoga and healing. Sue has recently been training with Dharmavirsingh Mahida in Pune studying yogasana, Ayurveda and yoga philosophy.
Yoga means 'union'. To practice yoga is to unite the body with the mind and the mind with the soul. Yoga is more than putting the body into 'interesting postures' (asanas) it is a combined journey into learning how to use the breath (pranayama) to move deeper and open the body, preparing for meditation and allowing time for deep relaxation (yoga nidra).
Motivated by an inner feeling of emptiness, Sue realised she needed to find her centre. Something was missing in her highly stressed life in the city. She needed grounding and her soul like a cup needed to be refreshed and filled at a deeper level.
"Yoga for me has been a life saver. When you are leading busy stressful life there is no room for the soul to feel connected in any way. You are on a treadmill blindly running from deadline to deadline. There was not much connection with spirit or myself. Finally I came to a point where I had all the money and material things around me but an incredible feeling of emptiness and depression. I was dissatisfied at a deep level. I decided to take up yoga again and from that day onward have continued to integrate it into my daily life."
Yoga is a way of life, it is a lifestyle choice and the benefits that come into your life are so rewarding once you begin this path it is virtually impossible to change! You feel better, look better, your skin is different, your diet changes and your outlook changes. Your heart starts to open and your attitude becomes more flexible and tolerant. Yoga is the key to opening up was is truly underneath the armour. Once the body becomes flexible it starts to release pent up emotions and helps to correct defects in the posture caused from old injuries over the years. The body very soon becomes more agile and lighter and a sense of wellbeing and confidence takes over. This is when the alchemical changes begin. It frees us of disease and brings the body, mind and soul together in harmony.
Yoga Sutra: "It is only when correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed". There will always be a tendency to start yoga with enthusiasm and a desire for sudden results! But with continuing pressures of everyday life and the enormous resistance of the mind encourages us to succum to human weaknesses. All thiis is understandable, we all have these tendencies. This sutra emphasises the need to approach practice soberly with a positive, self-disciplined attitude and with a long term view toward eventual success.
Sue Hawkins
Yoga can be a life changing or a life saving experience as it was for Sue Hawkins, the presenter of this yoga session. Yoga can change your life too.
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