Introduction to ©Yogini & Panini.
May your heart always be comfortable. Om Shanti to you coming to this website.
Hi, my name is Yoga Cat. I make some horrible yoga jokes as her assistant. Om~eow~.
“©Yogini & Panini.” is a blog site, in which Yogini K.T. Aries, myself, summarizes own yoga experience and other spiritual, mysterious and interesting discoveries through selected books and through own yoga dairy practices, while eating favourite paninis.
The administrator and the main writer of this website is K.T. Aries, myself, also called “Yogini”.
About myself
I was born in Osaka, Japan. Where merchants and comedians are always competitive on their jokes. First ones make everything reasonably funny to sell their products and the second ones make everyone laugh for their lives.
As an adult, I work for an IT localization company in the UK. A random Japanese proof-reader and English – Japanese translator, also a mum of my cute daughter.
Possibly because I was emotionally strongly unbalanced when I was a teenager, my curiosity prompted interests in the arts. I immersed into the art world I met on my first year of my local high school. I loved all about the arts, not only the drawings and writings but also the theories – how lateral you can think or feel – and express them.
As a student at one of the universities of Arts, I wrote an essay about images from European fairy tales and how they could possibly affect on people’s minds on my master degree.
After leaving educational institutions and being severely welcomed into some work fields, I have started having a desire to know more spiritual and healthier way to live, thinking through how to approach your own body, not only your minds.
Taking both balanced is difficult. Sometimes we are totally forgetting our bodies and trying to fix only the way we think, then choose something correct-to-be in our heads, which have been already exhausted. We generally notice that the condition of our minds easily affects on our physical motivation to move. So does physical exhaustion affect your minds as well. If you feel your mental state cannot be healed any more, you may take a way to fix your body first.
At the middle of my life, I was working for a local Zen Buddhism temple for few years in Japan through the influence of my uncle, who was a zen priest. He had his temple in a local place of Aichi, Japan. At the time, temples needed personnel but not so many young people wanted to work in zen temples any more. Zen was highly recognised more outside of Japan. The zen meditation (Za-Zen(座禅)) experience in the temple easily lead my way to yoga. I can say, at least it felt spiritually similar to yoga.
Firstly I started hatha yoga in a normal sports centre. But my interests shortly moved to professional yoga studios and there I met Yin and Ashtanga yoga. Lately I went to India then certified as a yoga teacher, RYT200, by Yoga Alliance USA.
Coming back to Japan from India and for some reason met a British man in a pub popping in, got married with him after moving to the UK.
I practice Ashtanga vinyasa half primary series at least once two days, working as a proof-reader/translator. Creating yoga class ideas with Yin/Ashtanga asanas while eating a favourite panini, then writing these blog posts.
Sometimes running a class on my free time, particularly for depression/menopause/stiff PC shoulders.
Main categories on ©Yogini & Panini..
Main categories are based on what I would like to learn. And those are grouped into four.
1.Yoga
2.Yoga class ideas
3.Yogini’s Recipes
4.Other
Those are the lists of what I would like to do in this blog below.
1.Yoga
I am planning to write some essays/reports/articles about various topics related to yoga such as…
- Sanskrit,
- Yoga Anatomy,
- Yoga History,
- Yoga Nidra,
- Tantra,
- Yoga Asanas,
- Yin/Ashtanga Yoga,
- Yoga Philosophy
- Ayurveda
- Yoga & Zen
- Meditations
- How to obtain your flexibility… etc
I will list up books I used for these articles in the references page of this website.
2. Yoga class ideas
The class instructions contain…
- Workshop ideas & contents
- Instructions with guided images related to each asana (Images would be my original to encourage students holding their asanas)
- guided anatomical instruction such as supination/pronation, rotation outside/inside etc
- Asanas names in Sanskrit and their meanings with pronunciation signs
- Breathing (Inhale/Exhale) points
- Drishti points (eyes direction)
- Yoga Nidra (Guided meditation)
- Benefits such as menopause/ PC shoulders etc
From my experience, muscles become more inflexible after strict ashtanga practices despite the asanas needing more flexibility.
Therefore, the yoga class construction involves Yin yoga part at the end to stretch your muscles after the certain amount of practices of Ashtanga asanas (The certain amount of practices depends on students levels).
3. Yogini’s Recipes
My half-cut tuna mayo corn panini with coriander and blueberries in the picture above.
My recent favourite (⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡
I want the tuna!
Some Japanese mums still traditionally pass their recipes over to their daughters. So, here, I am planning to post both my recipes & my mum’s recipes 🙂
Japanese food is well known as healthy and delicious!
4.Other
Regarding “other” part, I am planning to write essays of some other things related to…
- Japanese Zen (禅), and Zen meditation
- Images from people’s minds and their analysis
- Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner,
- Carl Jung
- Plants
- Michael Ende
- Mindfullness
Thank you for reading this introduction! I’m looking for seeing you in my posts 🙂
Carpe Diemeow~!