Inside Yoga 58 (28/8/12) Just took some time off, or was it time on? I went on holiday with my partner and little two and a half year old daughter. Therein lies the catch – was it really taking time off? I spent most of the week in the pool teaching her to swim which [...]
Category Archives: Philosophy
Archbishop’s farewell blast at greed
Inside Yoga 57 (23/7/12) A couple of weeks ago I was interested to see a news report about comments made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, in his new book Faith in the Public Square, to be published in September. After 10 years in his current post he has built up a reputation for [...]
Two and on her mat
Inside Yoga 56 (21/6/12) One morning recently our daughter, who is just over two years old, was in our bed and we were all dozing – well, the adults were trying their best to get some real sleep, but a small toddler had other ideas. Suddenly, she sat up and announced with a determined edge [...]
Unable to switch off in a modern world?
Inside Yoga 55 (28/5/12) Last week I came across a newspaper article, in the Observer, “Want to improve your efficiency? Try switching off”. It was a thought-provoking article, which highlighted that some businesses had come to the conclusion that if staff all switched off their Smart phones, Blackberries etc at a selected time, they would [...]
It’s never too later to start
Inside Yoga 53 (3/5/12) This week the Guardian newspaper had an interesting article about yoga. The headline read: “Yoga: it’s never too late to reap the benefits” It explained that yoga can help fight stiffness, hardening of the arteries, hormonal fluctuations, depression and loss of bone density. This is all very positive stuff and points [...]
Nothing to do, nowhere to go
Inside Yoga 50 (5/3/2012) Meditation can really feel like hard work, yet we are told that it is relaxing and liberating. It is true that there are many positive feelings we can feel through meditating, but the truth is that most benefits come through some sort of labour and hard work. Meditation is no different. [...]
Breaking free of time
Inside Yoga 49 (21/2/2012) Time holds court over our lives; it is an unrelenting pest which will not leave us alone nor do we feel that we can escape it – or can we? We arrange our daily lives based on the constraints of time, from the moment we wake up to the time we [...]
Do we know how to breathe?
Inside Yoga 48 (4/2/2012) It’s a simple message and one that is repeated frequently in yoga’s teaching, yet it can be one of the hardest skills to learn and equally hard to maintain – I am speaking of breathing! We breathe every day; so why can it be so difficult to learn if it’s actually [...]
Can yoga wreck your body?
Inside Yoga 47 (21/1/2012) On January 5, this year, the New York Times Magazine published an article titled “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body”, which caused such a backlash within the yoga community that last weekend the Observer carried an article (“Health warning: from the plough to the lotus, yoga can damage your body” January [...]
Time to think! Or not?
Inside Yoga 46 (16/1/2012) Time!? What is this “time” that we struggle with? We seem to be obsessed/puzzled/frustrated/confused (choose where appropriate) by time. We feel thwarted when there is not enough of it and relieved when you sense plenty of it. Yet, did we ever have a shortage or surplus of time? We act as [...]
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