Yogayantra is a 500 hour yoga-school, member of Yoga Alliance
YOGAYANTRA & DOMINIQUE RENUCCI
My name is Dominique (杜美妮 in Chinese), director of Yogayantra RYS. I am a 500-ERYT with Yoga Alliance. I have developed my own Vinyasa style in an eclectic way, based on Krishnamacharya's method (not system), and integrating any elements from other schools that can enhance my practice and teaching. I do not follow any 'system' in order to remain open and free: a system is a closed box. Therefore my style is utterly "open". Vinyasa-style is the art of sequencing, it is like a ballet, it has a choreography. However, I remain faithful to the ancient teachings of Yoga and do not try to "reinvent" Yoga.
I discovered yoga in 1975 after a motorcycle accident left me with a paralysed spine for three years and a half and many joints dislocated. Also a few more accidents (falling off trees, horse, bikes, etc), and every time I had to rebuild my body, rediscover it, "repair" it through a renewed yogasana practice.
I have studied with many teachers -famous or not- across Europe and Asia, attended my first TTC in 1995. I practiced Iyengar-yoga for years, and then switched to "Astanga"-yoga. Now, I teach and practice Vinyasa-yoga, emphasising mindfulness, with fluidity and athleticism and also the detailed knowledge and precision of Iyengar-style into an integrated style. I am continuously refining my 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 am a Reiki master.
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 heaps of books to try and understand the Indian thought (philosophy), Tibetan Buddhism and Dzogchen teaching, and spent months of self-retreats in secluded places, living in the most basic conditions. I practiced Zen meditation for many years, attended many ten-day Vipassana-meditation courses, received empowerment of a few Tibetan practices. Now I do my best to follow the Dzogchen teachings Choegyal Namkhai Norbu, a great Dzogchen, master gives us.
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 my flat into an informal yoga-studio. I ran my own studio in Myanmar (probably the first yoga studio in this country, 1999). 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. 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 over five years, and lead many yoga-teacher training-courses.
Faithful to the tradition of Hatha-Yoga, I believe that it is one of the paths to the only goal of Yoga: liberation. Yoga is a lifestyle, as well as a sacred path, and I combine it to the Dzogchen teaching received from Choegyal Namkhai Norbu.
I am an Experienced-registered yoga teacher (500ERYT) with Yoga Alliance (USA). Yogayantra, my school, is a 500 Registered School.
You can contact me at yogayantra@gmail.com
in China mobile (86) 13 167 287 507. Skype: yogayantra
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The Vinyasa-style was coined by Sri Krishnamacharya, the "father of modern Yoga". The parameters of Vinyasa-yoga where vi means 'variation' abd nyasa means 'within prescribed parameters', are: steadiness, comfort, smoot and long breathing. Hence Vinyasa Krama means "sequencing with prescribed parameters". Each variation is linked to the next one by a succession of specific transitional movements, synchronised with slow, deliberate, smooth, and coordinated breathing central to Krishnamacharya's method.
Vinyasa does not mean "breath synchronized movement" as is found on most websites. This technique is also called "vinyasa-flow" or simply "flow" because people find it easier to say an English word rather than bother with Sanskrit terminology.
According to Sjoman (The Yoga Tradition at the Mysore Palace), "The term "vinyasa" is... used in Vedic ritual and refers to the subsidiary factors around a mantra that are required to make it effective. The term does not have any meaning in yoga and appears to be used to imply some kind of Vedic sanction to Vedic practice. This term is developed and used in Mimansa, an ancient school of scriptural exegesis in which Krishnamacharya was originally trained."
"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." Genpo Merzel Roshi-Kanzeon Zen |