Inside Yoga 111 (30/6/14) If you visit India there is one aspect of life which you will come into contact with and even sample from time to time, or even daily – the ubiquitous chai wallahs (tea sellers) who can be found on most streets selling tea by the bucket (well, more precisely, vat) load. [...]
—moreWe already know but keep forgetting!
Inside Yoga 110 (18/6/14) For many people who have heard about yoga and meditation, but don’t know anything about it, what it actually entails can appear to be very other worldly, demanding mastery along the lines of the most agile of martial arts, or can feel complicated and steeped in mysticism and wonder. When I [...]
—moreAntibiotics will be the death of us
Inside Yoga 109 (4/6/14) We have tried so hard to protect ourselves from infections and diseases with antibiotics we have overdone it – sounds like a familiar human trait? – and now the antibiotics are causing us to be more unwell, more sick and even kill us. This is the view of scientists, such as [...]
—moreAre we in touch with our body clock?
Inside Yoga 108 (19/5/14) Last week the BBC ran a special Day of the Body Clock 24-hour exploration of our body’s rhythm through the course of 24 hours. I was interested in this because the practice of yoga helps us to become more aware of our rhythms and those of the world around us. The [...]
—moreMeditating at the top of business
Inside Yoga 107 (12/5/14) There is something going on in company boardrooms, which has to be kept very quiet; with stress being all around including at the very top, some financiers have discovered the benefits of meditation. In a recent report by FT journalist, Andrew Hill, he asked “why must financiers meditate in secret?”. He [...]
—moreWhy we cannot stop chattering
Inside Yoga 106 (28/4/14) When the volume rises too high we have a very natural impulse to reach out for the volume controls to turn it down. Yet in our modern world we appear to have forgotten how to do this, with the result that it is getting noisier everywhere – and by this I [...]
—moreGreed will be the end of us all!
Inside Yoga 105 (11/4/14) We know we are a greedy bunch, and by “we” I mean us humans. For example, when is small no longer small? The answer can be found in a cup of coffee. I was recently in a coffee shop and all I wanted to order was a small cup of coffee. [...]
—moreHow to stop the chatter
Inside Yoga 104 (19/3/14) Everyone who comes to meditation quickly discovers how much our own mind loves to chatter away. No sooner have we settled down to meditate in a quiet environment, and the external noise quietened down, then the internal thoughts rush in and keep us busy – we can plan our life in [...]
—moreGetting rid of what we don’t need
Inside Yoga 103 (10/3/14) As we are in the modern era of sound-bites, it is appropriate that there is one sound-bite which applies to yoga practice: when we practice yoga we are “getting rid of what we don’t need”. One of my teachers, Clive Sheridan, said this at the start of a 30-day yoga retreat [...]
—moreTop Five Regrets of the Dying
Inside Yoga 102 (4/3/14) Life is a one-way journey and for most of the our life we might be fine with this, but when regrets come up, the one thing we realise is that we cannot turn round and do it all over again, but this time in the way we now know to be [...]
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