Larry Schultz brings his Rocket yoga teachings to Bangkok for the first time. He has been teaching yoga for 30 years and has influenced yoga practitioners around the world. As fellow yoga practitioners, we felt so lucky to have him here.
The workshop was aimed at introducing us to Rocket Yoga ,which is series of asanas drawn from Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga to renew energy and vitality throughout the body. This vibrant routine is called “the Rocket” because “it gets you there faster.”
Apart from that, Larry also made us realize that yoga is not about what we can’t do, it’s about what we can do. It’s good if you can do all asanas perfectly but even if you can’t it’s still good that you have willpower to bring yourself to the mat and learn how to consciously breathe. The beauty of yoga is not only about what you are doing today but it’s also about whether you will come back tomorrow and will be continuously practising in the next 20 or 30 years from now on. For some practitioners, the first ten years of practise may be full of stress and ambition because they want to do everything and try to do everything. But in the next ten years they will learn to understand that yoga is more than about postures and they will start to let their ambition go and practice with more joy.
The way Larry taught and talked in the workshop made everyone (of different levels) feel relaxed. Even beginning students who couldn’t fully do the advanced asanas still had a good time during the workshop. Larry said that although you can’t do the asana you can still learn a lot from watching others doing it.
He showed us the way he lives his life full of love, happiness, calmness and peacefulness because yoga has become part of his life for the past 30 years.
Reading what we have experienced from practising yoga and Larry’s workshop may make some of you feel good but believe us you will feel much much more better when you actually get to start practising yoga and experience it yourself how it can bring peacefulness, calmness and healthiness to your life.
“We practice Yoga because we want to have a life full of love and good health when we’re older” Larry Schultz
