Emotional Release Yoga - how it all started

November 28, 2019 Madina Tanekeyeva

It all started 11 years ago…

When for the first time in my ashtanga practice I did a deep backbend assisted by a friend, came out of it and started sobbing uncontrollably.

My friend asked me why I cried. I said I did not know. But she persisted.

“Of course you know!”, she exclaimed.

Insomnia cure with Emotional Release Yoga

November 26, 2019 Madina Tanekeyeva

Yesterday I received some sad news I did not expect coming - I lost 3 classes at a gym where I teach.

In a snap of a finger, my world was turned upside down. One moment I was coming out of my class feeling elated because two people gave me such beautiful feedback, thanked me and said they were my fans. And a moment later I was in my car driving to pick up Dan from school and sobbing at my loss.

You would say that an Emotional Release Yoga Teacher would know better and will do what she preaches straight away - do the practice of Emotional Release!

Well, she did not…Not straight away anyway.

A conversation about ANXIETY with Madina and Kelsey

November 22, 2019 Madina Tanekeyeva

My friend and fellow Sydney-based yoga teacher, yoga therapist, a sound healer and a student doing her master’s degree in psychology Kelsey sat down with me in a conversation about ANXIETY.

Emotional Release Yoga - Unpacking Anger

October 14, 2019 Madina Tanekeyeva

I was 30 and I was angry.

It was a rough patch of my life. A relationship of 11 years just fell apart and I quit my corporate job. I had very little money because I started a business - Astanga Yoga School Amsterdam.

I was sad and could no longer put a happy smile on my face. And when I finally admitted to my parents that I wasn’t doing well, they could not take it so well, too. The easy go-lightly Madina wasn’t there and it was hard on them.