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22 Jun 2010
Coaching

Yoga in het Park

This summer there will be fun yoga classes every tuesday except on the 24th of August.

The yoga in the park will be on tuesday at 17.45 and at 19.00 and it will be at the plantsoen, see the map on this post for the exact location.

Feel Free to join, the classes are for everybody, all levels so feel free to bring friends.

We will be practising all sorts of fun and relaxing things this summer.

For the Yoga you need a yogamat or a big towel, which you can order for example at yogashop.  The prices of the classes are the same as they are for the tuesday class, see here for more info.

Looking forward to seeing you this summer, enjoy!

Kate & Lucas

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11 May 2010
Critical Aligment Yoga Classes in Leiden

Thai Yoga Massage Workshop

On the 5th of June Kate and Cathelijne are organising a workshop in Thai Yoga Massage in Leiden. It is going to be a fun workshop in which we will go into some of the basics of Thai Yoga Massage. Thai Yoga Massage, also known as Yoga for the lazy man is a form of massage in which you take a person through yoga practice through massage.  It is a relaxing massage.

Thaise Yoga Massage is een massage van top tot teen met loszittende kleren aan. Als masseur gebruik je handgrepen in de breedste zin van het woord, want naast je handen kun je ook onderarmen, ellebogen, knieen en voeten gebruiken. En bij de yoga-stretches is het je lichaamsgewicht. Dan gebruik je geen kracht, om ruimte te creeeren in het lichaam.

De Thaise Yoga Massage werkt op het ritme van de ademhaling, daarmee is de massage als een dans. Je gaat de massage zowel geven en ontvangen. Er ontstaat een diepe ontspanning, waarbij je echt kunt voelen van binnenuit. En je zult ervaren hoe spanningen zich uiten en hoe je deze kunt ontspannen. Het geeft je een lichaamsbewustwording in sneltrein vaart!

Data:  5th of  june in Utrecht and the 29th of  May and 19th of  june in Utrecht
Investment : 40,-  (10% discount for  students or U-pas holders)
For more  info mail me at: kate(at)feelfree.nu

Cathelijn Blankevoort
I have been teaching  Thai Yoga Massage since 2005.  Awareness, feeling and connecting are central themes in my work. I also teach Yoga and this to me,  completes the circle.  Through teaching Yoga and massage I hope to share my knowledge and energy on the body in a very positive way.  For more information please go to www.laathetlos.nl

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26 Mar 2010
Coaching

how to soften sadness

Feeling de-inspired, maybe even discouraged by this course I am doing on ‘management and communication’ I’d like to write about softening sadness. We were discussing the ways of the multinationals in this specific case Nestle who is quite shamelessly cutting down rainforests to make Kit Kats. This exploitation of natural resources by Nestle was brought to my attention by Greenpeace who have decided to stimulate people to express their discontent with these practices. Nestle’s behaviour, exploiting rainforests for financial gains, made me feel quite angry.  When I looked at this more deeply, as Thich Nath Hanh so eloquently expains in his book answers from the heart, I noticed that I was angry but most of all I was feeling sad. Sad that Nestle’s people are willing to exploit rainforests for euro’s, money,  that just made me feel disheartened.  As I cycled through town, I reflected on this matter and decided I’d prefer working towards a happy goal instead of working from anger.  It’s just not a nice process working from and with anger, to me it makes much more sense to work towards alternatives and make this into and inspiring and affirmative new direction as opposed to fighting . This is not to say I care any less about the shameless behaviour of certain multinationals, such as Nestle,  but it makes more sense to inform people about their behaviour so they can make their own choices as to whether they want to support such practices or choose alternatives.

There are so many great alternatives out there already, I’d like to share a few great resources with you

For fair clothing

kledingchecker

for fair food and which companies to support (and possibly avoid)

fair food

want to read something on the subject

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/

and the book Cradle to Cradle

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14 Jan 2010
Critical Aligment Yoga Classes in Leiden

Alignment Yoga Classes in Leiden

NEW!

On the 2nd of Februari 2 new Alignment Yoga classes will start in Leiden. Alignment Yoga is a form of  Yoga which is focused on improving your posture and helping you to relax more easily. The Alignment Yoga classes consist of movements which help you to relax and movements or Asanas which help you to release tensions in your body which are due to bad posture or stress.

I will be teaching Alignment Yoga at the beautifull yogastudio  ’de oude Smederij’ which is located on Haven 54.  For more information feel free to e-mail me at Kate@feelfree.nu

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10 Jan 2010
Critical Aligment Yoga Classes in Leiden

Time schedule Yoga Classes

When

Tuesday

  • 17.45-18.45
  • 19.00-20.00

Location

Haven 54, Leiden                                                                                                        

Investment

  • 85 euro’s for a 10 times card
  • 45 euro’s for a 5 times card
  • 11 euro’s for a single class
  • 5 euros for an  introduction class

students

  • 80 euros for a 10 times card for students
  • 40 euros for a 5 times card

For more information feel free to e-mail me at kate@feelfree.nu

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21 Dec 2009
Coaching

dalai

I find hope in the darkest of days , and focus in the brightest, I do not judge the universe

Dalai Lama

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13 Nov 2009
Coaching

F.Q.

I’m confident you will have heard about I.Q.  measuring your intellectual abilities and E.Q. your emotional thermometer, which has been introduced by Daniel Goleman which may give you an indication of your interpersonal skills . But what about your F.Q?

It is of course helpful and wonderful if you are helped by your intelligence and if you’re in tune with others due to your social or emotional awareness and there seems to be another factor which plays a significant part.

It can be summed up as F.Q.  Faith and how much faith you feel you have.  Faith can be helpful to you in a number of ways. Having faith can help you to feel optimistic about your future plans, your relationships and  your personal growth.  Just imagine having faith in love, how would that be helpful?  Having faith in love offers you the opportunity to shift your focus from ‘keeping your relationships safe’ so to speak to feeling safe in your relationship, whether it be with a partner or a friend and that will allow you to focus more on what is going on in the present moment. You will have more energy to focus on making your partner or friend feel happy and appreciated and to really enjoy his or her company. This will naturally make them treat you in a more kind, appreciative way too.

Even though Faith sounds wonderful sometimes you may or may not at times feel a little sceptical about having faith. Sometimes break-ups or other situations may lead you to feel it would be a better idea to have a little less faith. We see this in giving up on romance after a nasty break up.

Having faith however will help you to deal with these tough situations  because having faith will mean that you’re more open and aware of opportunities that come your way which can help you to improve your situation. By having faith others will also probably feel more inclined to help you. It may be easier to help someone who is willing to grow and change.

If you feel you want to improve your level of faith how can you go about it? Having faith is not an ‘all or nothing at all’ deal so you can start anywhere you like and practice having faith in situations so that your level of having faith can improve to the level you’re comfortable with.

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16 Jun 2009
Coaching

yoga in het park van Leiden

We are going to  enjoy Summer yoga classes in the parc this year! They will take place from 8 to 9.00 on wednesday’a at the plantsoen in Leiden! The investment will be 7,50 per class. Feel Free to join this summer yoga class, we will practise flow vinyasa yoga and also do some acroyoga :) .

We will start our classes on the 1st of July, the classes will be on the following dates

  • 9th  july
  • 15th  july
  • 22nd  july
  • Kate in France
  • 12th  august
  • 18th august
  • 26th august

To practice you need comfortable clothes and a yogamat or a beach towel, for yogamats see www.yogashop.nl

Namaste,  Kate

Kate Handstand   

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11 May 2009
Coaching

Changing through ‘not working’

My love and I were talking about the differences between Dru and Vinyasa Yoga, which we love. One of the things is that Vinyasa seems to be a bit stronger in the practie, really what we call ‘working in a pose’ which is to say that you actively and yet subtly try to deepen your pose by actively getting involved in the pose. Refecting a different part of the spectrum there are also Vinyasa poses and Dru poses which allow you to explicitly ‘not work’ in a pose, to acively ‘not work’ and by ‘not working’ to allow your relaxation to deepen and to flow into your body just like tea diffuses in hot water. This ‘not working’ can leave you feeling nourished and revitalised.

In our daily lives we may use both approaches, and we may tend to empasize the first, working hard to achieve results. This may work wonderfully, and, you may also want to create some room for yourself to try out the softening approach to see if you can reach your results in a more relaxed way.

Say you’d like to change a certain apect of your behaviour, you could allow yourself to decide on your new behaviour and then to relax into it, calmly, explicitly ‘not working’. No SMART goals, no targets, simply diffusing yourself in this new behaviour gently untill it becomes a part of you. Allowing yourself to move towards your goal by being gentle, and learning through opening up to new things in a gentle way, always learning that there are new maybe more positive ways to see things, experience things which may feel better. Being kind towards yourself, knowing that you are learning and giving yourself some practice time. Remembering that it is only important that you feel you can choose the way you want to be, and you can achieve that through practice.

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15 Apr 2009
Coaching

simply

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.�

Dr. Seuss

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