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Summer Events

Hope you are doing well.

En-joy-ing the Sun.

At this moment feeling free from any obligations.

Working 6 days a week at different yoga schools/occasions and body/mind centres.

You can meet me and colleagues at two events (free-from-charge):

-The Mix Nieuwegein at the Yoga Event. All kinds of yoga-workshops during the day. I provide a pranayama (breathing course) at 11.30.

-The Yoga Club Mijdrecht, 1 year anniversary! All kinds of yoga classes during the day. I provide a meditation - pranayama class at 10.15.

If you have never done this, no problem.

At this moment I am also connecting seriously with a few new schools and clubs for after Summer, as well as providing consults at my practice and distant consults. If you have any questions, let me know...Maybe I can help you up until Soul level and beyond!

I hope that this month my newest book Yugai will be published and available through my website. I am receiving the proof print at this stage. Good luck to you all!

Godaya

New Site things

At this moment, I am working daily with yoga classes.

Also I provide and work client wise. Check out my new site things: www.godaya.me
The hereafter becomes more 'practical' and 'just as it is...'

New is pregnancy and postnatal classes, as well as pre/post natal care.

At this moment I have graduated meditation/mindfulness teacher and I am graduating
from my pregnancy classes education through a postnatal scripture, combined with the curious vessels of Chinese Medicine.

Also I am working hard on my Yugaj book, which I hope to release before this Summer,

Greetz, Godaya

Yugaj or Yugay?

I'm on my way to Yugaj,
or is it Yugay?

The writing is not the problem.
The path is always the hardest.

Stating truth always reveals another truth...

Have to run to Yogaj,
or is it Yogay?

Godaya

Yoga - Meditation PT & (Distant) Consults

Besides daily yoga classes (see schedule on website www.godaya.me),
I am providing Yoga - Meditation Personal Training and (Distant) consults.

What is Yoga-Meditation PT?

60 or 90 minutes private facilitation for body, mind, Soul through deep therapy, physical strengthening and acceptation, therapeutic movement and renewed / balanced energy flow for all levels. The practice is esp. attuned to your personal questions/desires and possibilities and helps you to get into your flow and on your path.
The PT is quite economic, as you can practice what you learn during several amount of time, and don't have to come back until you feel that you want/need to or adapt your program or schedule.
The PT is quite practical, but also works at a deep therapeutic level to help you to come to oneness or the Source.
80,- (60 minutes), 100,- (90 minutes).

What is Distant Consult?

It is coaching at distance. I need your photograph and some questions/story. Through coaching, I figured out, that I am esp. helping people by asking the right questions, so that people can help themselves a lot during the way. The aim is to reach independence and self-love in the people, but to feed and carry them a little during the way. It is cozy, it is fun, it is healing, it is authentic. Every coaching/consult is different. Besides asking questions, I also reflect what I feel and read beyond the words.

The advantage for distant consult is that you don't have to drive. That you can determine your own time, so that you can contemplate on the questions or whatever comes up. And that you can get to new insights. Insight is not always solving, but gives peace of mind along the way of not knowing and opening up more for... 'what?'

There is a single distant consult. This is: you ask questions. I ask questions. You tell your story. I reflect. Mostly this is done within 48 hours. Price: 60,-.

There is a weekly distant consult. This is: whatever pops up in the here and now, working on life matters and themes of that week, looking at biography, dairy writing, or whatever..... It unfolds along the way and is comparable to a consult at location, but with more time to contemplate and to feel deeper. Price: 100,- per week. (With a maximum of 4 weeks without a pause).

You are also welcome to meet me at location....

Greetz,

Godaya

We are on the run....

Yesterday I heard that a new group is starting probably at February 19th: Senior yoga!

I also heard that Pregnancy yoga is going to start soon!

Today I started a new course (for me): Pregnancy yoga according to the Chinese Dao and I am also going deeper into Daoist yoga. Years ago I already started this through the art of Qi Gong and Chinese Medicine. At this moment I am continuing this deeper through Do-in Yoga.

At this moment I am writing a book: Yugaj.

At this moment I am running to the kitchen to finish dinner.... we are on the run.
Litterally...

Godaya

Do I still Blog?

I don't know.

The funny thing is, that I mostly forget.
The funny thing also is, that I sometimes remember, and look at my blog-site and
see that readers follow my non-blogging more regular than my blogging.

So my mother told me once: you rather shouldn't blog to get readers.
Rens says: the more you postpone your writing, the better it gets.

At this moment I am writing a book.
The writing process goes quite different than normal,
I cannot write whatever I want and it goes rather slow.

Also I provide lots of yoga. (I provide two lessons vinyasa flow and easy flow on Monday morning, one lesson power yoga in the evening, one club yoga on Tuesday evening, one power yoga on Wednesday morning, one easy yoga in the evening, one power yoga on Thursday evening, one hot yin flow on Saturday morning). I study meditation teacher on Friday. Also new things arise, like pregnancy yoga and senior yoga, but they are still in birth state.

New is:
Yoga @ Home. - I provide yoga at your home. More information is available on the website.
Distant consults. - By mail.
More availability for consults during the week.

I was writing a newsletter, but it takes me months now to write and send it.
I guess that my website and blog become my information channels.

The process is more: Do I want to seek for others (this used to be),
or are they finding me? (this is how it goes).
But moreover, I live like a hermit and I am locked into a safe.
There is no way out, but going deeper within.

Do I still blog?
I don't know.

Godaya

Photo's by Ine XIV

Let's have a Break

It's almost Christmas.
I am reminded by other's who are attentive, it wakes me up a little!

More and more I am becoming aware of there is no time,
but the time, we place onto nothingness,
or which is placed onto nothingness, when we don't have a say in things.

But still, there are some points, where more people at the same time
put their time on.
It was determined, but we keep on filling it in.

Christmas is such a thing. It is about new beginnings, a promise for...
something, which is about to happen, for new birth, for contemplation.
More people recognize it,
and therefore time becomes more filled with a sentiment and a happening.

Something to celebrate, but also its counterpart,
when there is nothing to
celebrate.
The togetherness vs. the aloneness.

We'll have it small. But the smallness is big.
We'll be away with our little family towards a beautiful space for some days.

Not with this family and not with that family, but with us.
Not very far away, but also not at home.

As a present for all the hard work, but also not long (time) away from work.
Reality calls.... , but reality is also there to be sometimes escaped.

Goals attained, but also still goals to reach.
We are free to go.... , but not fully freed, to go.
We are exactly in the middle of two counterparts, of which we know one,
but the other still yet to come.

Let's have a break of the everlasting circle of life with all its demands.
Let's have a stand still with whatever calls.
Let's have a little wonder at the awesomeness and the awfulness of life.
Let's have a break to see what is happening beyond us.
Let's have a break to look at the star, which announces New Birth.

I hope you all have wonderful days in whatever situation.
Let's see the good in things.
Let's enjoy it for a little pause.
Let's celebrate the New Birth of Goodness.

You deserved it!

Godaya

Photo's by Ine XIII

This photo, is sent (not made) by Ine. It is a photo, of a dancer, making one of his last moves.

It all Started with a Small Thing

Walking forward in....
Daily life.

Don't know where to start.
Don't know where to end.

I am pushed/forced into a room with a process.
I used to become quite aloud, cause nothing happened,
or it happened just before me, but I wanted to run away and not look at it.

This and that.
Right and wrong.
All kinds of theories.

Now, I accept, that we will always be pushed and forced in such a process,
and the dynamics tells you a bit where you are.

First the country side is nice, and then it is un-nice, and then nothing happens, so you are totally squeezed to the bone in the un-nice, and then something splits open, and then it is nicer again, because it couldn't be un-nicer and then it becomes too nice, so then it disappears, because it was never supposed to be nice.

Meanwhile everything happens to you.
It mostly seduces or hurts.
Almost nothing is real.

And the more stable you become qua vision or less vulnerable, while being vulnerable,
tells a little about you being small or big and the amount of light that shines through.

I am no longer .... happy or proud about this path.
The only thing I know and understand, is that it will never end, so you'd rather be happy.

And the more spiritual you are.... the more you will be hurt and astounded by real life.
This is, what life is, this is, how we function as people.
This is how you become as human being.
You condemn, while you also understand, that it cannot be different that it goes.

So let's celebrate small things! (birds flying away).
Say hello to the small things! (sunlight through the window).
Say hurray to the insignificant things! (nice dinner today).

Small things, make big things happen.
It all started with a small thing.

Godaya

To Godaya XII

Dear Godaya,

Whether you are a Yogi, a Muslim, or a Christian, it doesn't matter to God. Finally we all shall have to let go of it.

I received this morning a text in my mailbox of the Jesuit Frans van der Lugt. He lived 40 years in Syria in the midst of people who had different backgrounds. He created a space of peacefulness and mutual respect:

'Somewhere, in the deepest of your being-human -, where God might perhaps reside -, you feel that in general it is not essential if you are having full or dirty hands, but that you must try to accept, with effort and slowly, that your hands are empty, that you own nothing, that you can and must receive everything over and again and that you can only give when you receive. 

Only with empty hands you can really receive the other person, fill your hands with him, give him space in your arms, call his name and speak his language. Only with empty hands you can really give, and pass on, without the receiver feeling less, or feeling aggressive or having to be submissive'.

Thanks Godaya, that I can publish something every now and then.

Tonny. 

The Place where you Belong

Today, I visited a house.
It was a beautiful space, where the people offered me a place to give my yoga/meditation course.
It had a vibe, which reminded me of my own home, where I lived for many years
and which I left, once it was not my home anymore.
I felt welcome and I am gonna feel...

A while ago, I asked for a space somewhere else.
I was rejected, because one of the people, who worked there was teaching in the same area.
I was a bit astound, but couldn't find words...

It reminded me of a thing, long time ago.
I asked him: do you mind helping the same people as you do? Fishing in the same water?
He said: I don't know of any water (or something like that). He meant probably: there is no competition.

Feeling welcome is one of those themes that come and go in my life.
I work in soft groups: I feel welcome.
I work in artistic groups: I feel welcome.
I work in competitive groups: I don't feel welcome.
I work in harsh groups: I don't feel welcome.

All groups teach me something important about me.

The only place where you belong, is in yourself.
There is no other place, that....
It grants you comfort, welcomeness, but does it remain?
It causes you discomfort, unwelcomeness, but do you have to stay?

What feels like home for a while, feels like moving forward another while.
Nothing in the world of changefulness, remains.

I know that Buddha taught that.
Knew that.
But: there is a difference between reading a one liner on a calendar full of wise men.
And: feeling the cold shower, of the warm bath, that it used to be.

I guess that people, who struggle with welcomeness and unwelcomeness,
should understand, that there is no place like home.
I mean: 'no' place like home.
There is no such a place.
Or: there is no 'place' in general.
Time and place don't exist.

There are constellations, which make you feel like home or not.
You click in or not.
The function of them all is to nourish you and kick some ass, because you need to move forward.
Or to discomfort you, so that outside the comfort zone, you start to grow and deepen out as a person.

There is no such place where you belong,
but you.

Godaya

Photo's by Ine XII

To be Continued...

It's been a while since I wrote.
The reason why..?

I am going through different phases.
More glimpses of the real me come to surface.
They are quite fragile.
They also involve my work.

Since a week or something,
I am re-united with more happiness.
I say re-united, because I was always guided with a basic positivity.
A basic trust.

Then I lost it for some time.
I didn't recognise me in what I had become.
But now the positivity comes back,
from the inside out.

The heart opens really every once in a while.
Sometimes it closes and I keep it for myself.

In work a lot is changing. I guess in a month or more,
I am doing different stuff....
Little glimpses already show...
It's the same same, but then by far more authentic.

Since some time, I am fighting expectations of the outside world.
I don't want to be part of it.
But I know, that I will only find happiness and salvation,
when this outside world is included.

Feeling the natural flow, despite all the outside world expectations.
Trusting on a deeper walk of life, without instant reaction.

At this moment, I am more heading towards the Buddha,
than towards....I don't know if it is home. But it was a missing link.

To be Continued...

Godaya

Workshops

For Serious Request there will be two donation based workshops at Yoga Club Mijdrecht
at December 12th and December 13th. The donations will be offered totally to 'Het Rode Kruis'.

December 12th: Meditation, Mindfulness and Relaxation by Godaya at 10.30-12.00.
December 13th: Yin Yoga by Marloes Winkel at 12.30-14.00.

Hope to see you there. More information, visit my website: www.godaya.me

To Godaya XI

Dear Godaya,

For all people, who tend to give up,

Tonny:

From the Talmud

You can be the first note in a song,

so that all boundaries are gone,

don't be afraid

even if the note is false

You can be the first spark for a fire

which melts all weapons into ploughs

don't be afraid

even if you are wounded by the wind

You can be the first grain in the field

which will fill all hands with bread

don't be afraid

even if the land is full of rocks

You can be the first drop of a Source

which sings songs of life in the desert

don't be afraid

even when the cloud is still silent

You can be the first step for a dance

which leads all feet towards Him

don't be afraid

even if your foot is stumbling 

And then this...

When you have believed in people

which let you down: keep on believing.

When you hoped for a miracle,

which did not happen: keep on hoping.

When you wanted to leave a trace of love,

but were despised, even continue to love.

When you dreamed and then awaken,

keep on dreaming until the morning!

Ine's Book

Ine's book is worth seeing/buying. Over 365 pics and illustrations. See link
Godaya

http://www.boekenbestellen.nl/boek/let-the-picture-get-you-by-ine/15465http://www.boekenbestellen.nl/boek/let-the-picture-get-you-by-ine/15465

To Godaya X

 

Dear Godaya,

I am curious about you answer.
I don't like it that I visit your site to see it empty again.
Is that the case with more people? Being curious... or is it my dependency? of ...?
Do I wait too much for people? Waiting? Why do I wait? Is it because I don't wanna go? Is it, because I should go myself.... or is it time that others will follow me? That I show people what's inside of me?
That I don't identify with you, with someone else, but...go!?
Why does it scare me so much?
Not waiting for someone to follow. Go!? Saying 'yes' to whatever calls you.
It's so scary.

Tonny

 

Photo's by Ine XI