Description
My Earthly name is Slavica, while my spiritual name is Preet Sundri Kaur. I’ve been into yoga and the yogic lifestyle for 10 years now, 4 of which I’ve also spent as a teacher.
Having started off back in the 2012 with hormonal irregularities, my stress levels were high, i was in great emotional pain, without even realizing just how deep my fall was. But then, with 22 years and a wish to get better, healthier and happier, yoga found it’s way trough to me.
Recommended by an actual medical professional (my gynecologist) upon seeing just how much of a mess my life was. He told me to take 5 minutes of the day to just sit down and relax. Let go of all worries and connect to the breath and body. Saying this to an Aquarius ascendant, with Sun in Capricorn, was like trying to explain the moon to a mole. So, having faced the fact that I just didn’t know how to rest and relax, and that it was actually manifesting physically, the first solution i thought of, was some physical activity.
But what would I do? I got fatigued way too easily, a smoker, a bit overweight and very, very lethargic. I didn’t want to just go and blow off steam, I needed to be sure that I’d be exercising both the mind and the body. Immediately, yoga clicked into my head. I knew what it was, but I never given it a second thought.
As I was leaving the hospital, i just knew what my next move was. I browsed yoga for yoga studios in the vicinity of my home, but the only one I could find was over 5 miles away. It meant a 30 minute trip in one direction, and changing 3 buses back and forward. But I didn’t care. I was determined. I called the instructor, left my name, number and choose a time that worked best for me.
Before I knew it, the season started, and I was doing yoga 2 times a week. It was traditional Hatha yoga, some Pranayama at the start of the class, then some salutations, either Sun or Moon, my teacher also used the 5 Tibetan exercise dubbed as “The fountain of youth”, as well as Kathu Pranam, an exercise similar to Sun salutations but with slight variations.
Two years into the practice, my life started getting better. I was feeling calmer, more in touch with my body, but my feelings were still difficult to comprehend. Yoga made me feel better, that’s all I knew, so it didn’t matter what season it was, if it rained or snowed, I was always the first one to show up on the mat.
Five years into it, back in 2017 I was willing to know more than just the asanas, pranayama and their benefits and counter indications. Yoga was what i was doing, and I just couldn’t see myself doing anything else. So, I asked my teacher for recommendations for a near by teacher training program, and the closest one was, of course in a different country, 500 miles away.
I thought about doing it for a year, I found excuses not to do it, but my inner voice was persistent, always bringing it up. So, I looked up the yoga center offering a training, it was in Sombor, Serbia. I contacted the teacher, enrolled super early (by the end of December i already made the payment, and the course didn’t start until July the flowing year) and I was ready to dive in deeper into the essence of yoga.
It was an intense teacher training, a full month of living yoga, breathing yoga, being yoga. Here I started opening up, and dropped most of my fears. I also got into a mini program for aerial yoga they were offering. I left the center confident in my abilities, and started working along side my teacher right away.
A year later, my teacher was offering a teacher training course, so without thinking too much, I attended that too. I had some insecurities about aerial yoga however, so upon finding out there was a more intricate course on that in my home town, my joy couldn’t be measured. I went deeper into anatomy, movement, how we walk, how we move. What good posture actually means, how past painful experiences shape us, and how we can go beyond the limits our minds set.
One thing I also noticed was that, my teacher wasn’t helping people to go beyond their limits, she was only there to make them feel good at the moment. She was teaching them how to live with the pain, with the weight on their shoulders. This was a bit disappointing and the source of frustration inside of me. I mean, we were both doing that, but the difference was, she enjoyed it, while it was eating me from the inside out.
Dealing with it, accepting it took time, but I knew I wanted more. More was always available, in many forms. From workshops, to seminars, mantra circles and one thing that changed everything. It was a Kundalini yoga workshop. It shook me to my core, I cried, laughed, fell in love, this is where I met my yoga idol, a colleague teacher that inspired me, I wanted to meet her for a long time.
She was everything I wanted to be, dedicated to the practice, transparent and luminous. I was actually partnered with her for a Venus kriya, I remember as if it was yesterday, even the teacher choose to sit right in front of us, and at one point her ring just flew towards our direction. As an omen, that both me and my friend were meant to go and enroll in the Kundalini teacher program.
The Kundalini teacher was vibrant, and I could actually see her aura, it was like she was doing what she was always meant to do. She told us about the Kundalini teacher training and my idol immediately applied. I wanted to do it too, but I was working, giving classes, my teacher depended on me, my family needed me, it just wasn’t the right time for me to do it.
By the end of 2017 my family was stricken with the death of my mother. Alzheimer’s disease finally claimed her life, after 5 long years of battling with it. This, as devastating as it was, came to also be liberating. Now there was nothing holding me home, there wasn’t someone that needed a constant presence, constant care at the house. Just me and my father.
Exactly one year after the work shop, I applied for the Kundalini yoga course, it was the spring of 2019. I looked at the dates, at my finances and decided to take it form the start, form the first module in February 2020.
I went into 2020 without a job, my teacher decided not to cooperate with me, without a secure income and with only one wish. I wished to become a better yoga teacher, to be the change I wanted people to see. And I let it go, to float in the universe. And oh boy did this wish come true.
I went to Bosnia for the first module, and for the first time in my life, a teacher asked every one of us to say how we felt during a practice. It was standard feedback, for the ones that did Sadanas and afternoon Kundalini yoga classes. One person at a time, they all awoke feelings inside of me, they all inspired me to share, to tell them, to tell the world how I felt. I can’t even begin to describe how it changed my perspective on everything.
I faced my shadows, the shame, guilt, the sadness, the abandonment issues, the fear, all of it was there. Always there, and for the first time in my life, I wasn’t ruing, wasn’t turning a blind eye to it.
At the point in time of writing, I have finished my Kundalini level one training, gotten certified by the Kundalini Yoga Research institute. Currently, I am three modules away from finishing Kundalini yoga training level 2. My yoga journey continues, and putting this story out here, actually verbalizing it (I find writing to take too long, still) means that I a finally ready to take a step outside of my comfort zone, and go out in the world. Go to tropical places I’ve always dreamed about visiting, explore the 6 continents and dive even deeper into what it means to be both a student and a teacher of yoga at the same time.
Education
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Yoga Centar Sombor, Serbia01.07.2017/01.08.2017Hatha yoga and meditation teacher
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200h teacher training
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Yoga studio Lotus02.02.2018/04.05.2018Hatha and Vinyasa yoga teacher
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200h teacher training
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Aerial Movement Academy08.01.2019/21.04.2019Aerial Yoga teacher
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120h teacher training
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Kundalini Yoga Research institute18.02.2020-11.10.2020Level one instructor certificate of training
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220h of Kundalini yoga teacher training
Experience
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Yoga studio Lotus09.2017-10.2019Yoga teacher
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This was my first job as a Yoga teacher. It was a time when I was still learning the business, creating sequences, making sure everyone’s voice was being heard, adjusting asanas, and of course, learning all the technical details of running a studio, and organizing retreats. It was here that I witnessed, just how much of an impact Yoga has on people’s lives, I’ve seen the women that came to practice change, get in a better physical and emotional shape. From slumped shoulders and painful backs, they transformed into tall lionesses of great force,
Yes, it was their determination, but it was also the space they were opening into their body-mind with the help of Yoga and meditation. I am blessed for having the opportunity to work here for two years
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Pole People05.2018-currently employed hereAerial yoga teacher
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Here I learned of the human potential, and just how much our bodies can truly do. It is where I managed to get over my fear of reverse positions, and trust my own body even more. The type of practitioners that come to my classes is a younger crowd, willing to push their limits and explore just what they can do with the help and support of a hammock.
The hammock also allows for amazing meditations, complete, rejuvenating and relaxing of the entire body, since it gives you the feeling of floating, and the mind eases into a meditative state almost on it’s own
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Blue Lotus - Yoga and Meditation center02.2022-currently employed hereYoga and meditation teacher
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This is the studio that I opened together with a colleague Yoga teacher. We are both passionate about working with the body-mind, finding new ways of self discovery and taking yoga to a deeper level. To me, this was an ideal opportunity to learn just what I can do in the combining the Kundalini yoga with different techniques of self realization. My classes have taken a new form.
I give Yin yoga sessions, an all encompassing experience where the consciousness is immersed in the stillness of the body.
And a more dynamic class where free movement is encouraged, after a yogic warm up.
One of the things that I also begun organizing are workshops, an interactive way for people to get insight into themselves, the way they create their lives trough beliefs, and a way of either accepting their creation, or changing it trough the beautiful structure of Kundalini yoga
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