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Name
Philipp E Lemke |
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DOB
21.05.1973 |
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Phil’s Teaching Areas
- Yoga Philosophy
- Prânâyâma & Meditation
- Sanskrit for Yoga Teachers
- Asana
- Bhajans
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| Philipp E Lemke was born into a family of medical Doctors in Germany.
At the age of 16, he was introduced to the book ‘Siddhartha’, Hermann Hesse’s
classical story about India and the quest for enlightenment. After reading this book
several times, Phil went to his first Yoga and Mediation classes in Germany. |
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| After finished High School, Phil went to India in 1993. He lived there for most of the
following nine years, studying various forms of Yoga, Meditation and Eastern
Philosophy. |
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| His main influences are S.N. Goenka, various Insight Meditation teachers, the
Sivananda, Satyananda and Iyengar Traditions and his mentor of twelve years, Clive
Sheridan. |
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| In 1998, Phil completed the Bihar Schools 4-month Yoga Teacher Training Program
in Munger. In 2003, Phil moved to Australia where he completed Yoga Arts’ 9-
months Yoga Teacher Training Course. |
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| From 2004 to 2006, he taught on Yoga Arts’ and other organisations’ Yoga TTCs.
Phil has been on the INSPYA Yoga Team since its very beginnings in 2006 and feels
he has found his teaching family there. |
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| When he is not traveling the world with his ‘Bro’ Lance on teaching tours, he is either
in Byron Bay, working on Yoga Teacher Training Manuals and in a centre for drug
rehabilitation, or on retreat with one of his teachers. |
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| Special Interests That Phil brings To His Teaching |
- Self Inquiry & Eastern Philosophy
- Insight & Zen Meditation
- Bhajan-Singing & Guitar Playing
- India & Traveling in South-East Asia
- Psychology & Psychotherapy
- Shiatsu &Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Ch’i Kung & Martial Arts
- Dancing & Contact Improvisation
- Working in Drug Rehabilitation
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Phil’s favourite Quotes & Poems
About Meditation |
At the still point of the turning world
Neither flesh nor fleshless,
Neither from nor towards;
At the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
And do not call it fixity,
Where the past and future are gathered,
Neither movement from nor towards
Neither ascend nor decline.
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is
Only the dance.
I can only say, there we have been,
But I cannot say where.
And I cannot say how long, for that is
To place it in time.
The inner freedom from the practical desire,
The release from action and suffering,
Release from inner and outer compulsion,
Yet surrounded by a grace of sense,
A white light still and moving…
T.S. Elliott |
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| About our Courses |
Love After Love
The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at each other’s welcome,
And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger, who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has loved you
All your life, whom you ignored
For another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
The photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott |
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| Phil’s Credo |
My main current passion in teaching Yoga is to attempt to preserve the depth of this
great Tradition of Liberation Teachings while finding ways to integrate it into modern
life.
For me Yoga is a holistic approach to deepening my connection with life. Ultimately,
it is a way to overcome suffering by relinquishing the erroneous belief in a separate
and independent self (avidyâ).
Yoga is 100% transformative practice: moment-to-moment inquiry and
compassionate mindfulness, whether you focus primarily on the body, prâna, the
mind, or our daily interactions in the world. |
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| What Phil Enjoys About Training Future Teachers? |
| Teachers are the prime carriers of the Yoga Tradition. As I said above, since its
preservation and integration is my passion, to be in a position to train teachers is a
deep responsibility and commitment. I love working with people who want to become
teachers because they obviously share my enthusiasm and passion for Yoga.
It is a privilege to be able to explore, share and learn with such dedicated yogîs and
yoginîs. I could not think of anything more inspiring and meaningful to do with my
life. |
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