Inside Yoga 167 (16/5/2016) Last week I came across a comment by a yoga student who was complaining about his teacher, he was annoyed that he was not getting the best he could from his workout. It was these two last words that caught my eye, regardless of rights and wrongs about the class, all I had in my head […]
more >Inside Yoga 162 (21/3/2016) Charlotte Walker has tried numerous things to control her bipolar disorder and recently found that yoga helped to balance her life. In an article on BBC website she describes how she started yoga again – having done some practice back in the 1990s – and although she found it hard physically she says that she feels […]
more >Inside Yoga 161 (14/3/2016) A yoga teacher in Calgary, Canada, teaches a class under the title “rage yoga”, which according to the teacher, Lyndsey Istace, started after she went through a difficult relationship breakup and felt so angry. The class looks like a yoga class you would expect to see until she encourages the students to do exercises like “screaming […]
more >Inside Yoga 160 (4/3/16) There are a lot of reasons why practicing yoga is a good idea, but now here’s one to add to the list – especially for the ecologically and ethically minded amongst us: practising yoga reduces our carbon footprint. India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change has produced a 21-page document about “Low Carbon Lifestyles”. […]
more >Inside Yoga 159 (22/2/2016) Instead of searching for the answers, like the meaning to life, the universe and everything else, or pursuing some ideal state of health or being, we are asked in yoga focus on getting rid of what we do not need in our life. First and foremost among the list of things to be rid of are […]
more >Inside Yoga 158 (15/2/2016) How good is your concentration? Can you pay attention? These are very important questions in yoga and its application is one of the most important factors in yoga. If there is no concentration our yoga practice will not be effective, it will not be yoga. One of the eight limbs of yoga is called dharana, which […]
more >Inside Yoga 154 (4/1/2016) The New Year represents for many of us the opportunity to make a fresh start or a time to make a change to our lives; or perhaps it represents a chance to stop something and leave it in the previous year. But why now and why does this date have more significance than other dates in […]
more >Inside Yoga 153 (14/12/15) Today BKS Iyengar would have been 97 and to mark this Google has put some images of a yogi, sort of resembling Iyengar, in various postures. Iyengar, who was born in Karnataka in 1918, struggled during his childhood with illness such as malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and general malnutirtion. He wrote: “My arms were thin, my […]
more >Inside Yoga 152 (7/12/15) In 2000 photographer Michael O’Neill had spinal surgery and was partially paralysed. His doctors told him he would never use his right arm again. Today he has the use of his right arm due to yoga. O’Neill says yoga really helped him to rebuild his body and have faith in his ability to use his hand […]
more >Inside Yoga 151 (30/11/15) In September a yoga teacher in Canada was told she could not teach her class anymore at the University of Ottawa because of her classes represented “cultural appropriation”. Jennifer Scharf had been teaching her yoga class at the University of Ottawa since 2008 at the Centre for Students with Disabilities, part of the university’s Student Federation, […]
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