Jin Lian-Hua's Teaching Philosophy
"I do not believe in styles any more…styles tend to separate man because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine becomes the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have style and you just say, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now that way you won’t create a style, because style is a crystallization and that way, it’s a process of continuing growth..."
~ Bruce Lee
“Reformed perfectionists” are my favorite students. I teach those who fully participate in life, get their hands dirty, their feet wet, and courageously venture off unknown cliffs of experience to engage in an evolutionary process of exponential growth.
Together, we establish an atmosphere where habits, memory and concepts are no longer perpetuating and creating our present experiences.
I embrace life with both hands (and feet) and, true to Bruce Lee’s words, am in a process of “continuing growth” with all students, as a teacher and student myself. We are not static but dynamic and impermanent (at least in form), here to discover and share our unique gifts. Let us enjoy, love and support one another. Our time here is short and too precious for us to merely imitate or try to impress one another with our “expertise.” Unbridled joy, creativity, passion and freedom are what I cultivate with students, not more concepts and forms to “attain”—not more idealism of any kind.
Training in these various systems of yoga allows me options for working with different people. While Yoga of Joy remains nearest and dearest to my heart, each of these systems uniquely provoke personal transformation and teach us to be “present.” All perceive human beings holistically, capable of moving from gross to subtle energies. Although each system speaks in a slightly different language, all are leading us back home to our core being.
I teach spontaneously and never pre-determine what will happen in class. Together, students and I follow Divine or universal energy, Nature’s fluctuations and how we feel on any given day; that is what guides our practice. I do not see Yoga as separate from life nor as a practice to simply “do.” For me,Yoga and life are intertwined and indivisible. Yoga is a way of “being” in the world. In the end, it is an ongoing “process” of cultivating awareness and inner peace.
My goal is to simply teach from the heart, while allowing students to unfold into their own experience and ecstatic path to liberation.
With gratitude to all my teachers and students
with whom I have shared this journey of Yoga.
May we continue rising like the Phoenix!
Om mani padme hum.
Om tare tuttare ture so ha.
Asatoma sadhgamaya
Tamasoma jyotir gamaya
Myrtyorma amrtam gamaya
Om shantissantissantih
In Tao.