Yoga Stories: Daša

This week Monica and Matt chat with Daša Lakner, founder of agniyoga studios in Ljubljana, Slovenia and the teacher with whom Monica completed her first teacher training. Recently a mother for the second time, Daša manages to have an in-depth conversation with us while pushing her new-born son to a local castle to help him sleep! (This does mean you will occasionally hear the joyful sounds of children playing and birds singing.)

Daša was exposed to yoga from an early age, but also was inducted into the Catholic Church through First Communion. With a "new age" mother, a Buddhist uncle and a grandmother with a collection of books on yoga, she was always aware that there were, potentially, a number of ways to spiritual fulfilment.

Daša did her first yoga class in high school, but was soon drawn to a Slovenian teacher recently returned from the USA. She did teacher training at 22 and has never looked back. After developing your own practice and developing your personal growth, it's natural to want to know how you can share something like yoga and learning to teach and opening a studio was Daša's way. 

She thinks it's good that yoga has changed and adapted over time and she sees the recent development of less emphasis on your yoga "lineage" as positive. Finally, she recommends three women authors on yoga, as well as a look at Yin Yoga. Her recommendations:

Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit, 
Ana T. Forrest

Any book by Donna Fahri

Yoni Shakti: A Womans Guide to Power and Freedom Through Yoga and Tantra, 
Uma Dinsmore Tuli

Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul, 
Sharon Gannon, David Life

The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga: The Philosophy and Practice of Yin Yoga, 
Bernie Clark, Sarah Powers