There are more reluctance from both yoga teacher and students in giving or receiving hands-on assistance. In this episode we talk about hands-on assist in the practice of yoga, the effect on touch on human, the use of touch as a tool for communication and how to approach hands-on assistance in this pandemic/ post-pandemic era.

In this Season 2 premiere of the Hañsa Conversations, we have Cecilia Li (Hañsa therapist, teacher, Manager of Hañsa China, and Director of Hañsa Integrated Movement Centre) as a guest to join the conversation. Cecilia started yoga early when it started to enter china and has seen the growth of it throughout the years. We talked about influences and correlation of Chinese healing practices like Tai Chi and Qi Gong with yoga and the current evolution of Yoga and Therapy in China and the rest of the world.

Yoga is often said to be a Mind Body practice that leads us to some sort of transendence. In this episode we dive into the different aspects of Mind & Body. How do we build awareness of our body? Should we trust our body? How does the reality of aging come into play? We also talked about a different way of look at transcendence and some approaches on how we can live our lives.

In this episode, we dive into a discussion of Flow. Starting with a discussion on Hañsa Flow and its elements, that leads into a discussion of what is Flow? How does one maintain a state of flow? How can we cultivate ourselves through a flow practice, especially the hañsa flow practice.

What is biomechanics? How do we connect with the way we move and align with the way our body functions? In this episode, we talk about different ways of perceiving biomechanics through the Hañsa Therapeutic lens.

What is posture? Is there such thing as a good posture? How do we know what is right for us? In this episode we talk all things posture in relation to human development and functionality. We also talk about posture in the current world of Yoga.

On average, humans breathe roughly 17,000 to 30,000 times a day. The breath is intimately connected to many aspects of our lives. In this episode, we talk about the how the breath is linked to our body, our mind, our emotion. We also talk about the breath from the perspective of Pranayama, the yogic breathing practice, and discuss from a hañsa perspective, what is advisable when it comes to these practices.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, our whole world has changed. In this episode, we talk about change and why dealing with change is difficult? This pandemic has also brought yoga & wellness classes to online platforms. We discussed its possible impacts on the practice of yoga and how we can maintain our self-practice during this time of change.

In this episode we take a step back to share the story of Hañsa - how did it come about and what are some of the ideas, values and philosophy behind it. Hopefully, this gives you a little bit more understanding of Hañsa.

With most of the world's population going into social distancing, isolation, and quarantine, what can we do, individually, to maintain and manage health - physically and mentally?