Klara captured in a moment of devotion
June 20, 2023
A Journey into Yoga ~ with Klara
A Journey into Yoga • Deep Dive • Reading Time: ~3 mins
With our Muse Klara
We sit down on a cosmic cloud with Klara, a beautiful St Soleil Muse and Ambassador, and explore the meaning of yoga for her. On International Yoga Day, join us for a dive into this incredibly rich practice!
{ Note: this outpouring of love is unpaid and uncommissioned, answers are genuinely love-filled }
Tell us a little about how you started your yoga journey?
About ten years ago when I was 20 I started attending power yoga once a week in my hometown in the Czech Republic.
Yoga wasn’t that mainstream then but I somehow felt very pulled towards exploring what this practice is about.
To be honest my main reason then were to get in shape and loose weight ( I was already in shape and skinny... the issue was that I was suffering from body dismorphic disorder, bulimia, low confidence and so on). To my surprise these classes had a massive effect on my mental health.
I always felt at peace, balanced and well rested at the end of every class.
I kept coming back and quickly fell in love with the practice. Over the years my practice has been on and off until I decided to do Yoga Teacher Training with a local studio in Sydney. I only signed up for the training thinking I would never have the confidence to teach so I my intention was to only deepen my practice. The training changed the trajectory of my life which I’m forever grateful for. After finishing my 200YTT I also completed a 50YinYoga&Meditation TT, and shortly after finishing those trainings I started teaching. This showed me that everything is possible, and that my mindset had just been trying to limit me.
We tend to condition and limit ourselves,
and yoga is here to expand us,
to remind us that we are divine beings and creators of our own reality.
That’s why this practice has been a crucial part in my growth and in becoming the woman I was to be in this lifetime. I will be a student of this ancient wisdom and a devoted practitioner for as long as my body allows me ~ most likely until my last breath.
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What does yoga mean to you?
To me yoga is a way of being in this world. It is an opportunity to daily connect with the self and everything around us. It’s body poetry. It’s a dance. It has the potential to balance all aspects of our body, mind and soul. It’s a lifestyle. It brings us back to our true essence and to the loving light that shines in each one of our hearts. It’s a remembering, remembering that we are all one. With this awareness we can regulate our nervous system better, we can be mindful of our thoughts and patterns more often. We can take full responsibility of our behaviour and how we show up in this world.
And so when I do my practice I listen. I listen to what my body, mind and soul need exactly in that moment. Because that’s what yoga does, it’s a tool to support us with whatever we need in each moment. Sometimes it can be fiery power flow, other times slow yin or a blend of yoga and dance.
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Tell us a little about how you started your yoga journey?
About ten years ago when I was 20 I started attending power yoga once a week in my hometown in the Czech Republic.
Yoga wasn’t that mainstream then but I somehow felt very pulled towards exploring what this practice is about.
To be honest my main reason then were to get in shape and loose weight ( I was already in shape and skinny... the issue was that I was suffering from body dismorphic disorder, bulimia, low confidence and so on). To my surprise these classes had a massive effect on my mental health.
I always felt at peace, balanced and well rested at the end of every class.
I kept coming back and quickly fell in love with the practice. Over the years my practice has been on and off until I decided to do Yoga Teacher Training with a local studio in Sydney. I only signed up for the training thinking I would never have the confidence to teach so I my intention was to only deepen my practice. The training changed the trajectory of my life which I’m forever grateful for. After finishing my 200YTT I also completed a 50YinYoga&Meditation TT, and shortly after finishing those trainings I started teaching. This showed me that everything is possible, and that my mindset had just been trying to limit me.
We tend to condition and limit ourselves,
and yoga is here to expand us,
to remind us that we are divine beings and creators of our own reality.
That’s why this practice has been a crucial part in my growth and in becoming the woman I was to be in this lifetime. I will be a student of this ancient wisdom and a devoted practitioner for as long as my body allows me ~ most likely until my last breath.
𓁿
What does yoga mean to you?
To me yoga is a way of being in this world. It is an opportunity to daily connect with the self and everything around us. It’s body poetry. It’s a dance. It has the potential to balance all aspects of our body, mind and soul. It’s a lifestyle. It brings us back to our true essence and to the loving light that shines in each one of our hearts. It’s a remembering, remembering that we are all one. With this awareness we can regulate our nervous system better, we can be mindful of our thoughts and patterns more often. We can take full responsibility of our behaviour and how we show up in this world.
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Could you share with us the meaning of your 21-day devotional practices? What kind of change has this brought to your life?
In retrospective, I can see that each time I do my 20-40 days of devotion the main focus of my practice manifests in physical reality. It's like magic!
By creating daily routine we rewire our subconscious mind and therefore can see big shifts in our life. I believe that by doing EFT, meditation, yoga and some other additional practices which can all be individually crafted depending on personal beliefs, my life has significantly changed for the better.
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Do you find that yogic philosophical principles support you when you visit family?
100%! As Ram Das said:
“You think you’re enlightened? Go spend a week with your family.”
And truly, what a gift to be challenged by our loved ones. Where else would we get to practice the theory we think we’ve learned.
As I mentioned above, yoga is a way of being to me. We can reed the philosophy and somewhat adopt it as ours but it try becomes our lifestyle when we embody it in daily life. However, it is not a linear journey. It’s a lifelong practice. And we feel highly aligned at times and other times we feel like we don’t even know what we’re doing no matter how hard we work on ourselves. Life will always be challenging us, I feel even more so when we truly choose the devoted path of a mindful human, it’s important to see these challenges as more opportunities for growth. Family dynamics are very commonly some of the biggest triggers of the whole western society.
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Is there a god or goddess that you feel most connected/devoted to?
I tend to speak to Shakti, Shiva, Lakshmi and Ganesh to ask for support sometimes but not as a part of my daily practice. The “god” I’m most devoted to is the great spirit, pacha mama, mama gaia, planet earth, nature. Every day I take a moment to give words of gratitude for the divine that cannot be seen, heard or touched in the physical. To the spirit of the land I walk upon. The waters that run through these land and heal us. The air that we breathe and that cleanses us. The fires that burn away what is no longer serving.
Words by Klara Saskova
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A divine creatrix, hands-on healer, yoga devotee and all-round shining light in the world, Klara entered the St Soleil galaxy of muses and paints her creativity in soft hues of her own rainbow. She has trained as a Yoga Teacher and then expanded her knowledge of the energy world via a ZenThai Shiatsu Practitioner path. She offers treatments in Bundjalung Country, the Byron Bay area in Australia
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Klara is based in North New South Whales, Australia.