Comments on: Old Turkish Lady yoga. Interior design.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:08:54 +0000

Thank you for this post. As always, I found just the right post just when I need it most. I’ve been using my practice to (gently) heal my body and my spirit by letting go of everything high intensity and high impact. I thought that maybe I was bein lazy, but when I read the sentence quoted below I KNEW that I was doing the completely true thing for me, right now. I don’t need the resistance and the hard part of an intense practice. I need acceptance and “yes, this feels good” type of practice.
~
“You didn’t need your mental and emotional powers to keep you from falling on your face, so you could use them for other things.”

Sending love to you!

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:01:49 +0000

Dear Havi,

I LOVE THIS POST!!

After three injuries last year, I was looking for a yoga, that doesn’t hurt. Of course, it was not the yoga that did hurt, but my ATTITUDE that got me into the injuries.

So practicing and teaching an old Turkish yoga style yoga without feeling pressured is just a good thing for me now, too :-)

Thank you so much, I just LOVE your post, i was just not as courageous as you until now, admitting, that my favorite yoga style at the moment is just this, Turkish yoga style :-) doesn’t have to stay like this forever though, but at least doing any other practice with an old turkish lady mindset will re-design any other practice as well. some interior design also here ;-)

Love, Sandra

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Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:19:47 +0000

[...] Pandora and dance full tilt boogie through at least one number. When I’m done I roll right into Old Turkish Yoga as practiced by the Pirate [...]

By: andream

andream — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:58:33 +0000

so
beautiful

By: Things are looking up « Spiral Song Kat

Things are looking up « Spiral Song Kat — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:36:42 +0000

[...] beginning to feel better, because I begin to practice what the wonderful Havi Brooks calls Very Interior Design. Among other things, I start focusing on all the little day-to-day things that I like, all the [...]

By: Kirsty Hall

Kirsty Hall — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:43:14 +0000

Well, to be fair to the yoga, I don’t think it was anyone’s fault. At the time, I was a single mother with post-natal depression and I think the yoga just stirred things up. It gave my body a chance to say, ‘you know what, everything is hard right now and you’re very, very sad’ and I *really* wasn’t in a space where I could deal with hearing that.

But if I ever try yoga again, I totally want to do Old Turkish Lady yoga.
.-= Kirsty Hall´s last post … Louise Bourgeois =-.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:01:06 +0000

This is wonderful. And after reading this post, I am having an epiphany about why I loved my Nia dance class so much last year. Having been a dancer (a Dancer!) when I was little, I instinctively recognized Nia as the Old-Turkish-Lady-Yoga version of a dance class. It was fun and connecting and inspiring and great exercise but without all the internal freakout about getting the steps wrong or looking goofy. It was just about being in my body and in the music and in the community of dancers in that room in that moment.

Sometimes when I’m at home, on impulse, I stop whatever I’m doing and go lie/stretch/roll on the floor, just because it feels good. Inevitably one or more of my cats stop whatever they’re doing to come help me lie/stretch/roll. Apparently I am a practitioner of Old Turkish Cat Lady Yoga.
.-= Tracy´s last post … To-day I Am On Bird Time. =-.

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:00:38 +0000

I think I like pirates.
Especially OTL pirates doing yoga.
I feel softer and opener just reading about it.
And if you want to you can say Grrr arrgg in any pose, if it is not quite soft or open enough for you.
*Smile*
Wishing you all a opener and softer day
.-= Meg´s last post … Fried Snickers, Family, Firings and Fripperies =-.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:33:13 +0000

This might be my favorite description of yoga ever.

Ugh, I hear you guys on the yoga fascists too. There’s a yoga school on my block that is apparently world-famous or something, but I refuse to study with the owner because he’s kind of a jerk in person. I don’t like jerky yoga. They have a slow/gentle class there that I’m now going to think of as the Old Turkish Lady session because that might make me want to go back :D

I’m glad you’re an interior designer after all, Havi. When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut, and then an astronomer. I hated college physics, but it turns out I get to spend my days with my nose in an ephemeris, writing about planetary cycles after all! Who’da thunk it.

*high five*
.-= Shannon´s last post … The Fall of Helen Thomas =-.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:29:21 +0000

I have massive love for the idea of Jen’s retreat but also have Wrong Continent Error. Perhaps someday there will be something similar in the UK…). (I am actually pondering constructing my very own retreat sometime this year, just by myself… but anyway.)

I like the idea of Old Turkish Lady yoga, too. And yoga as being-with-your-stuff. That resonates. And I *love* the Interior Design thing!
.-= Juliet´s last post … iPad! =-.