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Leading from the Front: Hungarian Mama/Scholar/Entreprenuer

7/17/2014

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This past June, I had the honor of leading a Clubbell Yoga Seminar in Budapest, Hungary assisted by Bogi Sofi (pictured left). This woman is a fierce leader and not afraid to take on the work required to truly lead from the front. 

In the CST Family, we use don't use the phrase "lead from the front" lightly. My translation is to: expect the highest level of performance, don't leak power, and maintain a strong focus. This can be applied to both physical performance as well as life. I will state that again. 

If you want to lead from the front: 

1. Expect the highest level of performance. 
2. Don't leak power. 
3. Keep your focus. 

Bogi teaches in her TACFIT, Kettlebell, CST and Clubbell Yoga classes at her dojo in Budapest. She has also become very well known for pioneering these disciplines in her country via media, news and fitness magazines. I always joke that she is more famous in Hungary than I am in the United States, because she is regularly teaching at huge fitness conventions. Very impressive....

Outside of the world of physical movement, she is also a scholar finishing her PhD, at the top of her class. Somehow, in between writing academic articles, teaching movement, oh, and studying Yoga at a local yoga school, she is also a parent to two amazing and beautiful children (pictured below). When I spend time with Bogi, it makes me feel a bit more normal attempting to balance a life of family, career, continued learning and yoga. 

In this day and age, we want it all. 

We want success. 
We want strong family bonds. 
We want to excel at whatever we are doing. 
We want to learn, and keep learning, from those that inspire us.

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Going to Budapest to teach Clubbell Yoga with Bogi brought me closer to her in many ways. Though she is older than me and more experienced in life, somehow she has chosen me as a teacher. But what she doesn't know is that she is also a teacher to me, and helps me understand this delicate balance that she makes look effortless. Watching her interact with her kids with sheer love and affection between classes and appointments, and integrating them into her life illuminates another aspect of leading from the front. 

Leading with love and patience. 

One thing I was fortunate to discover early on in my movement teaching career is: You can't take others where you haven't been yourself. This applies to the love and patience practice as well. You must embody love and patience to be able to teach your students this as well. Practicing love and patience daily, with yourself, your students, and your family will allow you to start on the path of leading from the front. 

I look forward to coming back to Budapest again and sharing space with Bogi and the other lovely Hungarians in her tribe. 

Namaste, 

Summer Huntington

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Boglarka Sofi link
7/20/2014 04:24:16 am

Summer, you are a special person and a special yoga-teacher!

On one hand you could seen, as a „neighbour-on-the-mat”, an adanced practitioner in the group, a nice girls from the yoga-classes, one who you can speak about things in the changing-room, one who you can speak about the family, who is partner to sit in a coffee-room after the yoga-class, who makes lots of strange things: hanging on the finger-post, making photo with giraffes...

On the other hand, you could seen as having very deep knowledge in yoga, who shows confidently not only in practicing yoga, but the philosophy of training-methods, stands in the background.

I suppose, this two are the most important things to me, Summer, and based on them I cathegorise my teachers.

I’ve met lots of yoga-teachers, gurus, and no one were so friendly and straight, like you.

No questions to them, no ideas to how, because they were so far, unreachable, make you feel your questions are so stupid...

It is frequent to meet 1000 years stone-fiexed rules, killing ones creativity, braveness to finding new ways in Yoga. (And if you enter another yoga-studio, you will find another 1000 years stone-fiexed rules, in totally opposition with the other.)

Summer, you were brave to new yoga. You were brave to put training-methods behind the yoga. You were brave to think freely. You showed your creativity to see yoga from the sides of strength and stamina. You brought the yoga closed to me. You opened my eyes what the yoga is in real.

Lots think that the age and the years spent with practicing yoga makes ones as yoga master. But not to me. To me these are the open mind, the braveness and the creativity, the experiments and a back-knowledge what makes somebody a rela yoga-teacher. I’ve find theese things all in You, that is why you are the true yoga-master to my eyes! Namaste, Bogi

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