Inside Yoga 139 In 2013 I posted a story about Wilco Johnson, the guitarist with Dr Feelgood, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, with just 10 months to live. At the time he declared that he had accepted his fate with a calmness and clarity – it was refreshing to see how someone had turned bad news into a […]
more >Inside Yoga 138 (13/7/2015) Last week I taught Viloma Pranayama: so to help your home practice here is a step-by-step guide to the breathing technique. Viloma means against the hair (loma), or in other words against the order of things or natural flow. The letters “vi” denotes negation, which in terms of breath instead of breathing in one inhalation the […]
more >Inside Yoga 137 (22/6/15) Yesterday was the first International Yoga Day and was marked by yoga being practiced all over the world, including Dehli, the capital of India, where more than 35,000 people attended the mass yoga session on Rajpath in the capital. The current prime minister of India, Narendra Modhi, had lobbied the United Nations for this International Day […]
more >Inside Yoga 136 (15/6/15) Breathing is something we have been doing since the moment we were born, yet when we start focusing on the breath, we discover that this precious resource, which keeps us alive, has not only been neglected, but it has been cut short, it is shallow, and erratic! Practising yoga and meditating on the breath teaches us […]
more >Inside Yoga 135 (8/6/2015) For many of us life can feel like a constant rush, with the pressure to keep up filling our days or, it can feel like a runaway train hurtling forward with us holding on hoping that we will last the journey. The pressure to manage can make us feel stretched to our limit, unsettled and stressed, […]
more >Inside Yoga 134 (12/5/15) A recent yoga magazine article has been heavily criticised for publishing an article that describes an ancient yogic technique which involves throwing up to empty the stomach of all contents. Yoga Magazine’s Dr Malik was responding to a reader’s question about Vyaghra Kriya, a purification technique called Tiger exercise in English. It is not the description […]
more >Inside Yoga 133 (27/4/2015) When I was new to Buddhism there was one lesson I heard that stood out: it stated: “if you can concentrate, focussing on the breath, with the mind still for one minute you are probably already a Buddha”. This statement highlights what most of us discover when meditating; that it is very hard to stay with […]
more >Inside Yoga 131 (9/3/15) I firmly believe that yoga can help everyone and anyone, whatever their health situation, it is just a case of tailoring the yoga to help their physical and emotional needs. Today I came across an interesting story about how Help for Heroes, a charity formed to help those who have been wounded in Britain’s current conflicts, […]
more >Inside Yoga 130 (2/3/15) Making yoga part of our daily routine can be the hardest aspect of practising yoga, because our busy lives juggling work, family and play make it very hard to find a space in our day for some yoga. Yet, it is possible and this is how. First of all, we make the decision that we want […]
more >Inside Yoga 127 (19/1/15) Recent scientific research has revealed that practising hatha yoga helps people aged over 55 improve their brain function. Scientists at the University of Illinois, USA, studied a group of 108 adults aged between 55 and 79 with 61 of them practising yoga three times a week over an eight-week period. The others met for the same […]
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