I have earlier said we were quite happy with Dave West as an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan, here at the Yoga Barn. Dave is a full time instructor and run classes out of Tai Chi Bali. I have emailed with Dave after our training session and told him I could put some info up at the blog. So if you happen to find this site by searching for Tai Chi and Bali, know that there are several of us that like what Dave West teaches.
This has been a good day. A couple of yoga classes and finalizing the deal about the room we ended up not renting.
Selfie time
With a dare devil approach to life, we rented a motorbike and set of into traffic. With a mantra sounding like: “Drive on the left side, Padawan”, we managed to stay clear of any scary situations. We visited three holy sites and passed through lovely rice field landscape during the day. Read on for info and pictures.
We just had lunch and talked about the essence of recovery and relaxation to benefit from training. We are not the best to make plans for this, but it’s gonna change. Continue reading
Weeeeell – we are open minded and want to try everything. In accordance to one of our martial arts heros, Shiomitsu Sensei of the Wado Ryu Academy of England, you should taste everything at least once. If it tastes good- have some more. If it tastes bad – spit it out and move on.
Today is Monday. What a glorious day of the week! All over the world people wake up and get ready to start another week. So do
Arne at the Yoga Barn @ 6:40
we. We talked about the fact that traveling like we do can not mean you have Saturdays and Sundays for a year. There has got to be some more structure that that. So here is a typical Monday. 🙂
Today we challenge ourselves and pushed some borders. We attended a class of Acro Yoga at the yoga barn. This was new, fun, scary, hard, childish, challenging and … did I mention FUN?!? Continue reading
Any good day start with a training session in the morning, or what? Today is Sunday and we got up with the call of the roosters and set out for a morning run. There are great views in Ubud, and specially if you go out from the beaten track. We stopped and took some pictures today as well. Continue reading
After a superb late lunch at Bali Buda, great place, we were ready for our class of Thai yoga body work at Yoga Barn. We had read that this class would be massage and pair work so this was hopefully something to look forward to. The class was full with lots of excited faces. Then Carlos arrived, he definitely falls in to the yogi category described by Arne earlier. A handsome dude with a guitar under his arm and his long dreadlocks tucked into a sarong on his head. Arne and I looked at each other, my og my what are we in for…. Continue reading
Dave West teaching
Picture from TripAdvisor
Today we tried something new (for us) – Tai Chi Chuan. I guess there are as many branches of this martial arts as there is in Karate, Jiu jitsu, Kali etc. The one we tried were the one available, and therefor the one most right for us. There was an English teacher Dave West, who’s been living here on Bali for the last 15 years that held the class.
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