More TV - and bliss

This morning I went to shoot another three TV episodes with Jason and Kelly. This time was different from the last though as we had a guest teacher teaching the classes - her name is Padma and she's a well-known meditation and yoga teacher here in Vancouver. The three sessions that she did were not so much about asana as philosophy: we did few few very basic poses (and when I say basic I mean the likes of tadasana and savasana) and pranayama.

We had some technical difficulties especially shooting the start of the last episodes - we had to take the beginning where Jason wanted to say "We're here with our good friend Milllla [I've taught them to pronounce the double-L in my name and now they overdo it] who's come all the way from Helsinki, Finland" at least three times which cracked me up every time. I guess I was playing the ethnic minority this time...

And weirdest of all - in front of the cameras and the crew, with interruptions every few minutes, I did some of the best yoga ever. Padma had the most wonderfully sensitive way of teaching, and although the pranyama what we did was pretty basic it just hit the sweet spot for me. I was immediately full of ideas for my own classes, and for my own practice. I was nervous when getting there because I wasn't quite sure what it was going to be like (meeting this scholar Padma everyone has been talking about), but this time was such a contrast to last time when it was so hot and exhausting - this time it was so cool and restorative.

I don't think I'll be shooting any more episodes, but these two times have been a fantastic opportunity and great fun. Padma is also coming to teach us some classical yoga history in the teacher training, and I'm very much looking forward to that.

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