Inside Yoga 80 (28/6/13) “I can’t seem to face up to the facts; I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax; I can’t sleep ’cause my bed’s on fire; don’t touch me I’m a real live wire.” When I was a teenager this song by the Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer”, resonated with me so much that I thought that it […]
more >Inside Yoga 78 (10/6/13) Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden, wrote: “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” Last week I was thinking about the idea of simplicity and how important it is to our well-being and quality of life. Yet […]
more >Inside Yoga 77 (20/5/2013) “Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside. To create and […]
more >Inside Yoga 75 (26/4/2013) I have been reading Coming To Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn which is about “healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness”. In it he has a short chapter about yoga, an overview, which I thought encapsulates the practice of yoga so well I want to share it. In his book, he says “yoga is one of […]
more >Inside Yoga 74 (19/4/2013) Restless, according to the Oxford English Dictionary states, defines it is as being unable to rest as a result of anxiety or boredom; offering no physical or emotional rest; or involving constant activity. Most of us experience this at some point in our life while a few of us find that restlessness dominates our life. The […]
more >Inside Yoga 73 (5/4/13) How can freedom and control work together? It seems to be a contradiction, but if we are to free ourselves of negative mind states through meditation and yoga we need to exercise a level of control in what we do. For example, our breath is so important in so many ways. Primarily, it keeps us alive […]
more >Inside Yoga 70 (8/3/13) Here is an inspiring story: it is about Arthur, a veteran US paratrooper who fought in the Gulf War. He says that he sustained a series of injuries as a result of numerous air jumps as a paratrooper. Doctors told him that he would never walk again without the assistance of crutches and braces – so he […]
more >Inside Yoga 65 (14/1/2013) Well, I have to be honest and say that the festive season’s burn out, fatigue and ensuing laziness has got the better of me! Hence the absence of a new chapter of Inside Yoga for weeks, more than that, since late-November! My apologies. My new year’s resolution was to start with a new blogs, and so […]
more >Inside Yoga 64 (26/11/12) Last week I was reading a Sunday newspaper magazine article about amazing humans (“Meet the Superhumans”, Observer magazine 18/11/12) and I was fascinated by the story of 25-year-old free diver, Tom Sietas, from Hamburg, who can hold his breath for 22 minutes and 22 seconds – he is the current world record holder. What struck me […]
more >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 to her voice: “Must do […]
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