So.. you woke up this morning and got on your mat and put your earbuds in and said lets do it. Lets do our practice and get it done! You did the best you could. Some days that’s ok, and sometimes it’s wonderful. Most of the time, as we all know, it’s a slog and you wonder just how these advanced practitioners do it, right? How do they maintain their practice? How do they perform at such a high level, and it all seems so effortless compared to what we’ve got to work with, maybe? The steel rod in our spine and the vulcanized rubber in our hips just don’t bend and melt like that, ok?!?

Today our special guest, Asta Caplan, whom to all purposes makes it look just that: EFFORTLESS!

Anything is possible and she does it seemingly all day, everyday. Feet on her head, bang. Feet twisted up in her belly, bang. Handstanding the whole time. And, yet our guest today has a bit of a twisted history.

She has a unique approach to practice because her past physical failings are something that she has come to terms with and subsequently works around. We believe you will be inspired to practice, and to live, after hearing her story!

Asta Caplan, a former professional ballerina, is a Finnish-born visual artist living and working in Germany and is an Ashtanga Yogi. Her work concentrates on the search and study of beauty: The works are spaces for contemplation allowing time for a closer look ever deeper inwards. Her search of beauty is also a search for the human sense of belonging to the world.

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Opening and closing music compliments of my dear friend teaching Ashtanga yoga in Eindhoven, Nick Evans, with his band “dawnSong” from the album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.
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