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Oct 1, 2016
Ashtanga Yoga with James Fritz Freire at Holiday Gym and Spa
Location: Holiday Gym & Spa, Davao City, Philippines
GPS waypoint: 7°04'54.0"N 125°36'32.8"E
Body Reboot
Even though I've moved on and developed a yoga practice that is more consistent with my genetics and life experience, I always default back to Ashtanga for restoration. Whenever I eat unhealthy foods or had been remiss in my healthy habits, I take refuge in Ashtanga to reboot my system.
 post Ashtanga Yoga class picture with (left to right) Yogini 1, Nancy, Fritz, Jin, TheLoneRider, Orwie and Jen
Ashtanga
Ashtanga is widely accepted as the most athletic of all forms of yoga. It generates heat through a Vinyasa flow that is both graceful and challenging. The story has it that when K. Pattabhi Jois, the Ashtanga guru who popularized the discipline, was introduced to Tirumalai Krishnamacharya for yoga tutelage, Pattabhi was a motivated and very strong 12-year old. The great teacher then developed a sequence suited for Pattabhi's strength and resolve. But Krishnamacharya wasn't just a yoga teacher. During his time, he was more known as an Ayurvedic healer. His yoga (Ashtanga Primary Series) is therapeutic - thus my go-to for body reboot.
Fritz's Ashtanga
Here in Davao, Fritz delivers Ashtanga on a sweated mat. Ashtanga is consistently taught by tradition (no poetic words, set sequence, ujjayi breathing, drishti, etc.) but every teacher's personality still manifests...some more than others. Fritz has an affectionate lean on his sequences. He gently persuades. Thanks to him, I was able to do 2 asanas I had great difficulty doing - the bound lotus and Marichyasana D. At the end of the practice, I was a well-tuned and well-lubed yogi...and drenched!
Thank you Fritz!
--- TheLoneRider
ps - If you want me to participate and write about your yoga studio or your yoga practice, email me. For my complete yoga profile, you can visit this page: YOGA by Gigit
James Fritz Freire, RYT-200
- 1999 - started his yoga practice
F. Torres St., 8000 Davao City | (082) 222 3041
- Monday and Wednesday - 2:10-3:10pm
- Tuesday - 8:10-9:10am
- Saturday - 9:10-10:10am
- Tuesday - 6:00pm
- Wednesday - 8:00am
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Oct 1, 2016
 Davao City, Philippines
 tourist attractions
 - hotel
 Bahay ni Tuding - central Poblacion location, wifi, hands-on owner
160 San Pedro Street, 8000 Davao City
0947 361 3544 | 7°03'57.6"N 125°36'28.3"E The Pinnacle Hotel and Suites - central location, new management, newly renovated
Sta. Ana Avenue, Davao City 8000, Philippines
(+63) 932-8708621 | 906-3185885 | 7°04'34.2"N 125°36'54.2"E The Apo View Hotel - Davao's iconic hotel, old world charm, casino
150 J. Camus Street, Davao City Philippines 8000
+63 (82) 221-6430 to 40 | 7°04'09.2"N 125°36'27.4"E North Zen Basic Spaces - great rooms at affordable prices
Sobrecarey St. (corner Lapu-Lapu St.), Davao City, 8000
(082) 295.3997 | 7°04'43.0"N 125°37'04.3"E Urban Living Zen Hotel - newly opened - all NEW!
F.s. Dizon Bacaca, 8000 Davao City
(082) 287 3133 | 7°05'28.4"N 125°36'22.3"E The Royal Mandaya Hotel - heart of downtown Davao City
J. Palma Gil Street, Davao City, 8000
(+63 82) 225.8888 | 7°04'09.4"N 125°36'36.8"E Alu Hotel Davao - central downtown location
M. Roxas Avenue corner Padre Faura Street, Davao
+63 82 227 5232 | 7°04'07.7"N 125°36'51.7"E One Oasis Davao - hotel accommodation in a condo unit
Eco-west Drive, Ecoland, Davao City
suki_tac@yahoo.com | 0925.500.3211 | 7°02'49.2"N 125°35'19.1"E
 van rental
 Apollo Van Rental - Davao City tour, Samal Island tour, airport transfer
0925.500.3211 | suki_tac@yahoo.com
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- one of the cleanest potable water in the country
- smoking is banned from commercial establishments
- pineapple samurais are endemic here and nowhere else in the country (pineapple vendors who cut-up whole pineapples into chunks with just a few strokes of their carving knives)
- public utility drivers conspicuously display their IDs
- durian Mecca of the Philippines (not to mention Marang, Mangosteen and Sweet Pomelo)
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- the weighing scale of fruit vendors specially the durian push cart vendors are a blatant cheat - showing almost twice the actual weight
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