Yogayantra is a yoga-school, member of Yoga Alliance (200 hours)
YOGAYANTRA & DOMINIQUE RENUCCI
My name is Dominique (杜美妮 in Chinese). I have developed my own style, in an eclectic way, based on Krishnamacharya's teachings, integrating the best elements of various schools. I do not want to follow any system in order to remain open and free: a system is a closed universe. Therefore my style is utterly "open". However I remain faithful to the ancient teachings of Yoga, and do not try to "reinvent" Yoga.
G. Feuerstein says, "I am less indulgent in my view of teachers who impart Yoga as a mere fitness system. Anyone who calls himself a Yoga teacher should know the tradition for which they speak... Yoga teachers have an obligation to be grounded in all of that, and at least to endeavour to faithfully communicate the whole of Yoga... I am critical to the trend to reinvent Yoga without first having achieved mastery in the traditional teachings."
I discovered yoga in 1975 after a motorcycle accident left me with a paralysed spine for three years and a half and pain in most joints. I have studied with many teachers -famous or not- across Europe and Asia. I practiced Iyengar-yoga for years, and then switched to "Astanga"-yoga. Now, I incorporate the fluidity and athleticism of astanga-style with the detailed knowledge and precision of Iyengar-style into an integrated style of Vinyasa-yoga, emphasising mindfulness. I am continuously refining her own practice, and sharing all my knowledge with my students.
I complement my knowledge of Yoga with a practical understanding of four distinct sciences of the body: Western anatomy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Japanese Shiatsu (日本指压), Indian Ayurveda. I have also received attunements for Reiki I and II.
I have experience teaching complete beginners, as well as established teachers. I have run many yoga retreats and teacher training courses. Through perpetual study, my asana and pranayama practices continue to evolve and deepen. Pragmatic, I observe excellent progress in my students' practice: they all improve.
I have attended many intensive retreats and teacher-training courses, read tons of books to understand the Indian thought (philosophy) and its development in Tibetan Buddhism, and spent months of self-retreats in secluded places, living in the most basic conditions.
I have practiced Zen meditation for many years, attended many ten-day Vipassana-meditation courses, and received empowerment for 4 Tibetan practices.
I left my country in 1991 after visiting Nepal . Since then, I have lived in Asia, spending more than three years in India .
I started teaching in Asia in 1991 (on the rooftop of my guesthouse in Kathmandu). In Beijing, 1997, I turned her flat into an informal yoga-studio. I ran my own studio in Myanmar (probably the first yoga studio in this country, 1999). Later, I worked in one of the world's leading restorative health centres (where I used yoga-therapy for the guests), and trained the local yoga instructor staff. Then, I ran my yoga-studio in Siem Reap Angkor, Cambodia, which I left to travel again and further my Shiatsu studies. I have lived in China for five years.
Faithful to the tradition of Hatha-Yoga, I believe that its techniques are a tool to the highest goal of Yoga: liberation. Yoga is a way of living, a sacred path that leads us from the impermanent to the Eternal, from the unreal to the Real, from illusion to the Truth.
I am an Experienced-registered yoga teacher (E-RYT) with Yoga Alliance (USA). Yogayantra, my school, is a Registered School.
Contact me at yogayantra@gmail.com
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"We want the explosion before we give up the self. We want the experience while the self is intact. We want to hold onto our self, to our experiencer, and have that Great Experience. But the Great Experience is when we have dropped the experiencer. That is the experience of no-experience and that is the preaching that has never been preached. That is the Dharma that has never been taught. That is the No Buddha and No Dharma. What is it? It can't be expressed. And yet, it's being expressed constantly."
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