Sakshi Singh is a yoga teacher based in Varanasi, India.
1. What style (s)of yoga do you teach? And, where are you located?
I teach Hatha yoga and Yin yoga.I was born and raised in Varanasi, India and this is where I teach, as well.
2. What is your intention behind teaching?
My yoga calling came after an accident, where I was advised to suspend all physical activities like dancing and running for a few years.
And yoga helped me heal and recover from that within 2 months and I was able to do everything, that I used to do before my accident.
When medical science gave up on me, yoga came to my rescue.
And, I want people to help realise that the power to heal ourselves lies with us all along.We just need to find and utilise it in the correct way.
3. What have you realized about yourself as a yoga teacher?
It’s not a realisation, per say, its more of a transformation I felt happening inside of me.
With each passing day, I became more patient, aware and awake.
4.What does Satya mean to you as a practitioner and teacher?
For me it’s the most essential yama required to train the lower mind.
Being truthful with oneself and others is a virtue worth living for.Once we don’t feel the need to lie anymore, things and events take a drastic turn in life and for the good.
For mental peace, and meditative practice the mind needs to be at ease and for that one always needs to be true to themselves.
5. Please mention a book that you have read about yoga that has had a positive impact on you?
Meditation and mantras by - Swami Vishnu Devanandaji
The way he describes the connection between body and mind, and the path to connect them helped me change my physical practice to an intuitive one.
6. What has a student taught you about yoga?
I was once teaching a class of people from Japan and since it was my first class, I was nervous as hell as all my students were older than I am.
So this one lady came up to me, talked to me to ease me up and told me that there’s no age of a teacher and no age of a student. Knowledge could be possessed and imparted by those who have it.
Just be patient and do what you do best.
7. How often do you practice Dharana and Asana?
I practice asana 5 days a week. As of dharana, it’s something that i do when i feel overwhelmed by everything around me and just want to focus inside and reach out to my inner self.
8. How do you implement the other 7 limbs of yoga into your life other than Asana?
By monitoring my thoughts and redirecting them towards positive things, I try to follow the virtuous path and do the right thing always. And by practising karma yoga.
9. What does stillness mean to you?
For me stillness is the state of mind where it’s not preoccupied with anything and is a clean slate.
We have a lot of samsakaras, thoughts, dreams and desires. So even when we are not physically doing anything, our mind is constantly processing loads of information. So bring that at halt, is stillness
10. How can we keep up with you on social media? What is your IG handle and/ FB name?
My Instagram handle is - www.instagram.com/inquisitive _yogini
Facebook- inquisitive yogini