Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #24 – Advice for the next generation of yoga teachers – Yoga in Hungary with Orsolya Kinka

Welcome to Episode #24 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Orsi  Kinka onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Hungary. She started teaching yoga in 2014, and has taught yoga in Hungary, Czech Republic, India, and Thailand. She offers online yoga classes and coaching. She teaches many different types of yoga, yet where she feel the most connected is in teaching relaxing and restorative yoga, combining pranayama with meditation for stress reduction.

Tell me more about Orsolya Kinka

Orsi Kinka was a competitive rower and worked as a finance manager. When she was first introduced to yoga in 2010, she quickly fell in love with it and took her 200hr yoga teacher training course in 2013 in Budapest. She started yoga teaching in 2014 in Budapest before moving to India to assist in yoga teacher trainings at Tattva Yoga under Kamal in Rishikesh, India. Orsi worked there for a year, before moving to Phuket, Thailand to teach yoga, meditation, and pranayama for three years at Amatara Hotel and Jungle Healing Center. She has now returned to Budapest and teaches yoga in Hungary at local studios and online.

What to expect in the Yoga In Hungary episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

My conversation with Orsi Kinka, a yoga teacher from Hungary, was so fruitful as she offered up advice to the next generation of yoga teachers. Of course, Orsi shared her story, as well as how yoga transformed her into a more confident, vibrant person. I loved Orsi’s definition of yoga— yoga is being aware of your own life. Yoga is a never ending story. 

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about how yoga can change you for the better then this is the conversation for you.

Orshi’s first yoga class was actually Bikram yoga. She was looking for something new, and something challenging when a friend dragged her to a class. She didn’t love it at first— though she kept going back. She loved the challenge. After some time, she found a smaller yoga studio and that’s when she really connected to the practice. As a competitive rower, she always prioritized her health and her healthy habits. She never imagined she would be in a teacher role. She considers herself a very introverted person, who doesn’t like like to be the center of attention. Yet yoga transformed her. It developed and strengthened her confidence overall, as well as her public speaking skills.

We talks talked about the difficulties she’s currently facing given the current state of the world, with the pandemic and now as we are progressing towards the shadow of the pandemic. The difficulty, of course, being how rare face-to-face teaching is nowadays. She thinks maybe one in five instructions are actually being absorbed by the student per asana, per posture. Yet, she is teaching yoga online, as well as in person yoga classes in Hungary. 

Orsi gives advice to yoga teachers who are teaching on-line, as well as her top three pieces of advice she’d like to offer up to the next generation of yoga teachers. I won’t spoil them here— you’ll have to listen to the podcast yourself (or read the podcast transcription below!)

While I have taught yoga internationally for a couple of years, I’ve never spent multiple years in the same yoga school. Orsi spent one year in Rishikesh assisting in TTCs, and for three years at the same place in Phuket, Thailand. Orsi talks about the difficulties of touristic atmospheres, and the so-called “pull of the party.” She had to be very disciplined and dedicated in her practice and have faith in her path. As Orsi says, “It’s about the focus, the sleep, and the quality of life.”

In terms of yoga in Budapest, there are plenty of yoga studios and the demand for yoga is very high. The opportunity and the options, how many studios and how many types of yoga are available. There are so many yoga studios—it feels like there is one on every corner! Every studio is searching for uniqueness. There are yoga studios that are trying to show the more traditional side of yoga, giving more traditional Hatha or Iyengar yoga styles. That being said, the most popular style of yoga is the dynamic flow type, that is more of an exercise than a mindful practice. Yet, with the pandemic more and more people are seeking meditation, mindfulness, and more softer practices.

For the skimmers – What’s in the Hungary episode?

• Advice for the next generation of yoga teachers
• How yoga transformed her personality
• Yoga is a never ending story
• Teaching yoga abroad for extended periods of time
• The yoga scene in Hungary

Thank you so much for tuning in the Yoga in Hungary episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast with Orsi. I hope you learned a lot about teaching yoga around the world!

Favorite Quote From Orsolya Kinka

“Yoga is a never ending story; it’s always under construction. The only certain thing is change.” 

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #24 – Advice for the next generation of yoga teachers – Yoga in Hungary with Orsolya Kinka

[00:00:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. I’m your host, Lily Allen-Duenas. Together we’ll talk about the world of yoga and we’ll talk to people from around the world. Join us for authentic conversations about the global yoga ecosystem and we’ll cover yoga philosophies and methodologies along the way in.

[00:00:29] Inhale. Exhale. 

[00:00:30] Lily Allen-Duenas (2): We’re about to dive in.

[00:00:38] Namaste family. Welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe. Today, I am so excited to introduce, Orsi Kinka a yoga teacher from Hungary. Orsi Kinka was a competitive rower and she worked as a finance manager before she was first introduced to yoga in 2010. She quickly fell in love with it and took her 200 hour yoga teacher training course in 2013 in Budapest and or see, did start teaching in 2014 and Budapest before moving to India to assist in yoga teacher training at Tata yoga under Komal and Rishikesh, India.

[00:01:19] Or she worked there for a year before moving to Phuket, Thailand to teach yoga meditation and pranayama for three years at Alma Tara hotel and the jungle healing center, she has now returned to Budapest and teaches yoga and Hungary at local studios and online. Thank you so much Orsi for joining me today.

[00:01:41] Orsi Kinka: Thank you Lily for inviting me. That’s my pleasure. 

[00:01:45] Lily Allen-Duenas: I am so excited to hear more about you and your story. I know my listeners are as well. So let’s just get started about how you did first got introduced to yoga. I would love to hear that. 

Orsi first experience with yoga

[00:01:57] Orsi Kinka: So funny enough, but my first yoga experience was Bikram yoga.

[00:02:04] One of my ex colleagues who, she’s still as my friend she introduced me, she invited me to go with her to a Bikram yoga class. It was November, it was a very cold November as I remember. And and then I kept going. I kept going back. I was really suspicious and I was not really stoked to go to a yoga.

[00:02:26] I just finished drawing and I was just looking for something new, something to challenge myself but not yoga. Anyway, I went to went with her and it was not love at first time. To be honest, but I kept going back because that was something challenging because I was not flexible at all. I went back many times.

[00:02:50] And then I realized that I would need a little bit more. If you’ve ever been in a Bikram yoga class, there are a bunch of people in the class. There [00:03:00] were around 60, at least the studio where I’ve been and less instruction, less adjustments. Personalized. So I reached a point when I needed to have a more personalized guide, more personalized guidance, what to do, why we are doing specific postures, why we need to look into specific directions and so on and so forth.

[00:03:25] And then I found a smaller studio in Budapest, and that was the time when I started falling in love with yoga. It really had me a lot because around that time I’ve been working in the corporate sphere and it really helped me to keep myself in track with all the other things which are happening outside of the office and with myself and with the harmony of my body.

[00:03:55] Lily Allen-Duenas:  And that’s so great. I’ve never practiced traditional Bikram, but I have practiced [00:04:00] hot yoga that was using a sequence very similar, but with some small adaptations. So I know the challenging elements of that as well. Orsi, how do you feel? I know you mentioned it, but I’m curious who you were before you started practicing yoga and how do you feel.

[00:04:18] That it has changed or transformed or evolved you?

Who Orsi was before practicing yoga and how it changed her

[00:04:24] Orsi Kinka: Before I was introduced to yoga I just finished university and I started working at my very first role and in, at a multinational company. And I was a previous ruler competitor. Pretty much, which I really loved, is moving. I always took care before as well of my house.

[00:04:50] It was always important. The food, what I eat, the habits I develop in my life, I never imagined ever in my [00:05:00] life that I would be in a teacher role. Let’s say like this, I, I. I consider myself a very introverted person, who doesn’t like to be in the center of interest of any. The person who, if there is a brand, gets together.

[00:05:22] Will not be the one who has the strongest forest and is the center and the kind of leading the events or inviting a bunch of people at her home and hosting them. So I’m not that one. And somehow when I started doing yoga through yoga indirectly, my confidence also developed or strengthened all the things which are coming with the teaching together talking to different people, before not known people let it be 10 or a hundred.

[00:05:58] It just [00:06:00] doesn’t. Feel as a problem. I’m not shy if I have to talk about yoga, if I have to talk, if I have to teach in a big classroom or if I have to touch people who I’ve never known before, because I know that it’s good. I know that it’s good because it has helped me a lot as well to set myself with both feet on the ground.

[00:06:26] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, that was beautiful. I loved hearing about how yoga developed and strengthened your confidence and your public speaking skills. And it just, it made you feel more, more comfortable occupying that center of attention role with what’s still from a place of course of, humility and self-awareness, but I think that’s beautiful.

[00:06:47] So you mentioned adjusting people and touching people, also being more comfortable with that now, however times have changed a lot due to the pandemic and COVID. So I was wondering what difficulties [00:07:00] are you currently facing teaching yoga? 

Due to COVID, what difficulties are you facing teaching yoga

[00:07:03] Orsi Kinka: Obviously face-to-face teaching is very rare now, and it was on the other way around before teaching online, at least in my case, in my word what changed and why it’s very challenging because most for me, if I’m adjusting, so it’s really important to know someone your body if you got any.

[00:07:26] Instructions on how you need to turn or take your pelvis, how you need to turn your bullets in which direction there you need to look at. You are in a very uncomfortable situation. If you are a beginner or a very fresh yoga practitioner. And if you get to weird inspections, like lesser seed, bone sinking, and do the.

[00:07:50] You would naturally start thinking about what the hell is this teacher talking about and what is really challenging in the online classes [00:08:00] that you can instruct the people through the camera very precisely. But if you teach face-to-face in a classroom, then maybe two out of five instructions go through. And the rest, if you are lucky and you are there with the students, you can either show them two, three meters far from them, or you can go there and you can have them touch and push the body into that direction.

[00:08:32] What you are trying to describe to them or at least describe it in a more precise way when you are there, but then you are there hundreds or thousands kilometers away from the body and from the listener? Probably one out of five instructions go through the network. And it’s just really hard to keep them engaged.

[00:08:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: Wonderful. I loved hearing how you described. Two and every five [00:09:00] instructions, maybe make it through when you’re in a person to person, class face to face. But because of the other options available to us, touching students or demonstrating, or even, going up even closely individually to the student and saying it to them, more personally, because I agree that with all these options available, it’s easier to communicate instructions to help keep them safe.

[00:09:23] As well, physically safe and in the Asana, but with alignment as well. So what advice would you give a yoga teacher who is teaching online? I know you’ve been doing that as well. So what do you think helps the most? 

Advice to yoga teachers who is teaching online

[00:09:37] Orsi Kinka: Try not to try for perfection because if you start now, it just is not going to be perfect.

[00:09:44] That’s for sure. And regarding classes, how you teach, how you instruct. I think you need to instruct much more precisely, and you need to go into the details as much more than in a class, because [00:10:00] you have less chance to show the students because the students will see it in a very small picture online. I talk way more than show.

[00:10:08] I show, I do the classes when I’m teaching. I also do the classes better as I’m talking. 

[00:10:15] Lily Allen-Duenas: So since we’re in the conversation, in the realm of teaching advice I would love to hear just, what are your top three pieces of advice you would offer to the next generation of yoga teachers? 

Top three advices to the next generation of yoga teachers

[00:10:28] Orsi Kinka: It’s good. If you are a yoga teacher, it means you have already completed one or two courses.

[00:10:32] You are a new and fresh yoga teacher. You want your value. It is not going to be greater. The more papers you have, the greater value you have as a teacher, I think it’s, there is not very, not too strict correlation in between these two things, but what is more important? How much of our practice, [00:11:00] you put into the paper because that paper probably you will get reading a week, a month, 22 days, usually the 200 hour teacher training.

[00:11:13] So it’s about 70, 22, 3 days long. That’s not the barrier where you become a yoga teacher. In your experiences, good and bad all together. We’ll make you a yoga teacher. The people, the practitioner who you are sharing your experience with will make you a yoga teacher. So one of the things is practice.

[00:11:42] You become a yoga teacher, but it doesn’t mean you can stop practicing. Because you think your own practice, you teach from your own experience, your own practice is going to be your best teacher. That’s one thing. The [00:12:00] second one, which I already mentioned in terms of online yoga, don’t strive for perfection, it just doesn’t make sense.

[00:12:08] We are human and their affection is also very relative. You think, eh, Consider someone you will have your own preferences. Other students have their own preferences. You may not be the best teacher for someone, but for the other ones, yes, there will be students who come to your class and never show up.

[00:12:33] Maybe they also stand, stand up in the middle of your best and they go out. It’s not because you are not good. You can’t control it and it’s also in the Bhagavad Gita, right? You can’t control the others. How they think about how they feel about you. The only thing with you or which is under your control is your own feelings, your own thought processes, your own actions, [00:13:00] how we reflect in others or how it will reflect in the future.

[00:13:05] It’s a totally different thing. Yoga, just as a personality is a never ending story. It’s always under construction. Let’s say this as well. The only certain thing is, change the way as your personality changes. That’s the way of your practice. And that’s the way of your teaching will also change and the evil will be flexible enough.

[00:13:30] That you will be open to change, open to adjust to them in the future. And if I want to put it in a nutshell, this third one, I would say trust the process. 

[00:13:44] Lily Allen-Duenas: That’s so powerful Orsi, I love how you’re saying, go with the flow and say yes to opportunities. And I really feel like you’ve lived that story yourself.

[00:13:53] You completely changed your life from competitive rowing and a world and finance and Budapest and [00:14:00] Hungary to now having traveled the world, teaching yoga. And I can’t believe that you’ve taught for one year in Rishikesh alongside Komal. And then for three years in Phuket. I’ve never landed for so long.

[00:14:13] What for a teaching opportunity for me maximum has been three months here and there. What is it like to teach yoga in a different country other than your own for such a long period of time? 

Experience teaching yoga in different countries for a long period of time

[00:14:25] Orsi Kinka: India and Thailand are the experiences which I had in India and Thailand. You can’t mention them in one page.

[00:14:32] It’s totally different. When I went to India I knew where I would go. I knew where I, where I’m engaging, because I used to go there for a shorter period of time for a couple of teacher training classes, courses. So when I went there at a time when I also stayed there, that was my plan. I planned that, I really wanted to go there and dive deep into the teaching.

[00:14:56] And I wanted to live there in India just to absorb the [00:15:00] culture and to feel what other people try teaching us to experience it on my own skin, being in Tatva or being in that one specific yoga school fairs, like you’re living in a bubble, Rishikesh as well, fierce. If you’ve ever been, if the listener’s ever been there, if he has that you are in a bubble, you are in a fairy tale, let’s say like this, everything is or seems perfect.

[00:15:34] Even the noises, even all the cows on the street, it fears. Okay. And being there and teaching there was, well, talking from a distance now. It feels perfect. It was challenging because obviously you were not Indian when you were teaching there and you were not Komal in that call in the specific school that I was [00:16:00] working.

[00:16:01] And it was really challenging to let yourself, except by the group where you needed to go to teach, because I thought I’m going to assist, but it turned out after a couple of months that I’m going to teach in courses, not just assisting next to a teacher. So it happens. Sometimes I had some courses when I was teaching as a teacher, as a leading teacher, because Komal was not there anyway.

[00:16:33] It was challenging to let yourself accepted by the group as a female, as a European female as a person who is other than the face of the school, that one year in terms of my knowledge in terms of my existential life, it was a really uplifting and I got, I think all the best I took all the best, what I could from there Thailand was way more [00:17:00] challenging for me.

[00:17:02] First of all, that was the first time I went there. That was my first time being in Thailand and within Thailand being Phuket. And Phuket is really touristic. India and especially Rishikesh was all about yoga. It was really easy to keep my own practice. And it was also easy to teach in that traditional sense of yoga in Thailand.

[00:17:28] It was much more difficult because the energies which surround you, the people who you meet, who you meet there. They are not specifically into yoga. They’re not specifically into the gender, more spiritual or more sensitive, let’s say like this or mindful way of life. And because of this, keeping your own practice required enormous discipline.

[00:17:58] It was not about [00:18:00] motivation anymore because that’s what I felt after a couple of months, I just lost my motivation because I didn’t have food for my soul. In my surroundings, there were way less people for yoga. That was more about holidays. That was more about fun, entertainment, partying and so on. And because of this approach, the energies are also different.

[00:18:27] I really had to have a very strong discipline and faith in my practice, teaching wise as well. You really needed to focus on how to wrap this whole yoga story to people, to feel, to let them know that it’s, it’s important, not because of meditation, not because of all the incense, not because of all the stories, what they can hear from eat, pray, love, and other.

[00:18:56] But it’s really about their health. It’s really about their [00:19:00] focus. It’s really about their sleep. It’s really about the quality of their life and these and about stretching. If I wanna go back to prose, physical body, how important it is to keep the body flexible or keep the body in the range of motion of your joints.

[00:19:18] Healthy and there, so I needed to follow a totally different approach to be able to find my voice in Phuket in that area. 

[00:19:30] Lily Allen-Duenas: I understand that kind of pull of the party or the pull of the social elements, where people are trying to get you to stay up late and to yeah. To, drink something or to, whatever that happens.

[00:19:42] Orsi Kinka: So all I know is there are big shopping malls. It doesn’t have to be a party, but really a big shopping-wise, beach full of people. So all of these multinational brands, this exposure really makes you much more alert and your focus is getting [00:20:00] gathered again, 200 other places. They’re in Rishikesh.

[00:20:05] That was my experience. It was way easier to keep your focus in one channel. 

[00:20:10] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh I’m glad you brought that up. I totally understand. But I would say I’m even more tempted to give into shopping and Rishikesh though. I love all of the vendors and the stalls, the colors, the fabrics, the stones. I’m very tempted to give into shopping there and too much.

[00:20:26] Orsi Kinka: For me, one of my limits was my backpack because I know I’m a backpacker, I’m a traveler and I won’t stay there forever. So it really gave me a limit. So it was easier to keep myself within boundaries. Let’s say. 

[00:20:41] Lily Allen-Duenas: I also traveled with a backpack. So I felt the limitations, but every time I’ve been in Rishikesh twice, each time for a little over a month.

[00:20:50] And I, each time I sent a box home to the U.S. I really can’t. I can’t say no. And then I, of course I love sending my [00:21:00] best friend in the U S. She loves tea and especially Indian chai tea and she’s purchased it. She says I don’t know. She’s probably tried 10, 20 different types of chai. But she says none of them tastes like the Rishikesh chai’s though.

[00:21:14] I always send her chai and all of a sudden my dad at one of those, again, Nasha t-shirt or something. And I try to do my annual Christmas shopping, cause I’m not always home for the holidays. So it’s a Rishikesh every time. 

[00:21:29] Orsi Kinka: I missed that now that we are talking about really amazing. 

[00:21:33] Lily Allen-Duenas: Me too, it’s such a special place.

[00:21:36] I agree the energy, the atmosphere, it is, it’s just in the way, the pace, the flow, there’s cows and their scooters and there’s some honking and there’s some dirtiness of course, but it just, it is so much easier to focus on your practice and on your traditions. And I feel so soft and melty. 

[00:21:55] Orsi Kinka: Yeah, yeah, yeah 

[00:21:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: So special. But, Orsi, I would love to hear about [00:22:00] yoga and Hungary. I always try to ask my guests so my listeners can hear a little bit more about the yoga scene in Hungary.  

Yoga scene in Hungary

[00:22:07] Orsi Kinka: I came back only in the last two months, so I’m very fresh. And, but what I could tell you is that I lived in Budapest.

[00:22:18] The last time in 2015. And at that time, yoga started blooming and booming, but it was not that developed. And now what I can see, and of course now many studios are struggling because of the pandemic. Is that there are yoga studios or, this a very cozy home apartment yoga studios. When an apartment is transformed into a yoga studio, there are plenty. I really feel sorry for the newly engaged yoga practitioners or people who are interested in starting [00:23:00] doing yoga.

[00:23:02] Because of the options. How many and how many types of yoga and studios are offering their services. But there are so many, there are so many studios at every corner of the house. There is a yoga studio I’m exaggerating. There are many places where they are advertising them as traditional yoga videos.

[00:23:24] But we choose the most popular, I guess, is the dynamic flow yoga or low type of yoga. That’s what I think. And I’m talking advanced to manage myself because I, that’s a good chunk of my practice, which I practice by myself at home. Mostly Ashtanga. That’s why that’s one of the practice which I call myself, that’s my practice.

[00:23:52] But what is really popular is the more fancy specific or extreme [00:24:00] flow yoga dynamic one. Nowadays with COVID or with the pandemic the mindfulness art and the more restorative part is coming into picture and more and more people are firing, they need to find their own rhythm.

[00:24:20] They need to find their own piece of peace because I think working from home and totally mixing personal life with your business life, it’s really hard to separate them. And one of the things we just can’t have you separate private from your business life, even though they are happening in one physical place.

[00:24:47] Nowadays, your mindfulness. Is that you consciously aware about what you are doing? How long, how much you still need to work? [00:25:00] How much, when is the time when you need. Just stop and start saving your own life in the same physical space. How not to bring home your work, however you are working at home or from home and for death.

[00:25:15] I think more and more people are looking for yoga and the self part of yoga. The more mindful part of it, which is meditation, or at least this kind of a guided meditation is a yoga mudra type of meditation. And I left six years ago, then a boom place opened and started selling the dynamic part of yoga, which is an exercise type of yoga.

[00:25:47] But through that, I think it was a necessary step because that was the way as a more wider network got exposed by yoga and now they are [00:26:00] a perfect audience where you can introduce the more traditional and the more mindful part, because now they are ready to accept that kind of approach before going from a gym, going from Arabic or any type of other sport.

[00:26:17] If you want to push this type of approach to others. They would be much more resistant now that they did some yoga. Now they are ready to accept all the other, which can come, which offer, which yoga can offer, which is not just the movement, but more the focus is the concentration to meditation and breathing.

[00:26:37] This is the face we have in Hungary. 

[00:26:41] Lily Allen-Duenas: No, I see that. And I think that can be very true. And most of Europe and in the U.S. too, I think the dynamic flowy very aesthetic, very creative. Yeah. It’s really entertaining. It’s Instagram yoga too. It’s where you do, it’s not even where you’re just doing a practice one, asana.

[00:26:59] Or [00:27:00] one pose, a breath. It can even be where you’re speeding it up and doing a time lapse. So it looks like, oh, she’s doing five poses in one second. So I think that is very attractive to people given social media, given also the fast paced kind of style of our lives. I think we’re just used to moving quicker.

[00:27:21] Orsi Kinka: Plus we, most of the people we are multitasking. We learned, we needed to learn how to multitask if we wanted to survive, if you wanted to be better in this society and to get that mindset, we needed to get a faster practice. But I think that now that we are familiar with this and we are kind of able to move with the pace of our thoughts.

[00:27:52] Now we reverse the process. And now through the movement that we are starting to slow it down. The [00:28:00] sequence is the flows that are more and more hot flow coming into picture, which is a flow still, but it’s a much slower flow than a dynamic flow. So through these movements, now we reverse the process and we try to slow down the mind through the movement.

[00:28:14] I think before we wanted to catch up with the thoughts and now we try to slow down the boats with the movement. 

[00:28:23] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah, and I feel like there’s such a beautiful lesson to learn, especially in practices like yin or it’s there’s nowhere to go. You are here for five minutes in this one, super robotic asana and laying down in a butterfly and you do not move for five minutes, except that embrace that.

[00:28:42] There’s a point where it’s painful, maybe a little uncomfortable. You have to just say I’m going to stay. It’s okay. I’m okay. And I think that’s, it’s a great practice to learn, not to run away and also to be satisfied with not moving around a million miles a minute. And how would you [00:29:00] describe Hungary to somebody who knows nothing about.

Describing Hungary

[00:29:03] Orsi Kinka: Hungary is a very funny country, which is famous for the spa bath and also for the wine culture. And also the Hungarians are really welcoming. However, not many of them can speak English properly, but part of that, they are really welcoming. This is a country very, you can travel, you sit in a car and you travel in two hours and you arrive in a different country with a different culture.

[00:29:38] You just need to hop in your car and travel already into Croatia, or already in Austria or Serbia.

[00:29:46] Lily Allen-Duenas: Wonderful. And I asked this question to all of my guests. How do you describe yoga? What is yoga for you? Or if I just said the sentence yoga is, and then you fill in [00:30:00] the blank, how would you feel? How would you fill in the blank?

How do you describe yoga?

[00:30:03] Orsi Kinka: Yoga is an approach to life. It is the way you look for things yoga is for me being aware of your own life. And this is a never ending story. As I mentioned as a person, as a personality, you are changing your lifelong perceptions, your experiences, your expectations, the career change, your body, the shape of your body.

[00:30:27] Your abilities will change through the ages. I think yoga is a tool which helps you to perceive the contrast between your expectations and between the reality, what is, and at the same time, yoga as a tool gives you a strength to accept and a sprain to [00:31:00] work with these contrast and to transform it to 

[00:31:07] Lily Allen-Duenas: So Orsi, how can people get in touch with you or how can they learn more about your offerings?

Get in touch with Orsi and her offerings

[00:31:11] Orsi Kinka: So I have, I have a Facebook page, Enjoy The Breath. I also have an Instagram account. And there you can find information about my classes, online classes, or also classroom trainings. And then I have a website as well, which is www.enjoythebreath.com, in one word, enjoythebreath.

[00:31:34] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you so much. And thank you Orsi for being with me today, it has been so wonderful to be with you. 

[00:31:43] Orsi Kinka: Thank you so much for the invitation and I really enjoyed it. Thank you Lily.

 Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Outro

[00:31:53] Lily Allen-Duenas: My conversation with Orsi Kinka, a yoga teacher from Hungary. It was so fruitful as she offered up [00:32:00] advice to the next generation of yoga teachers, of course, or she also shared her story as well as how yoga transformed her into a more confident and vibrant person I loved or she’s definition of yoga.

[00:32:15] Yoga is being aware of your own life. Yoga is a never ending story. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. Be well.

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